The Green Grid is working on two new concepts to help the industry begin to equate Carbon and Water to a workload or unit of output. In a previous blog we introduced Water Usage Effectiveness (WUE) and are delighted to see The Green … Continue reading
EPA ENERGY STAR® for Data Centers – where’s my productivity?
In all fairness to the good people over at EPA who have been working with the industry, academia, manufacturers and associations like The Green Grid – they really were stuck between a rock and a hard place when it came to ENERGY STAR for … Continue reading
Our new server is not an EASY-BAKE Oven
Not too long after my recent road-trip brining my daughter home from TCU (Go Frogs) we, as in my wife, daughter, the dog, and I set about organizing our daughter’s bedroom in order to mover all her college belongings back home. Something … Continue reading
Of Road Trips and Data Centers
One learns a lot about their children – and to a certain degree data centers but more on that later – during the bi-annual (as in twice a year) road trip to and from college and home. Fortunately for me … Continue reading
Beyond energy: Delivering data center efficiency while optimizing IT performance
The data center as we know it today started to take shape as the dot-com bubble expanded in the late 1990s. Growth slowed when the bubble burst, but by 2003 the pace of change was accelerating again as IT organizations … Continue reading