Video: The Green Data Center using Liquid Cooling techniques

Liquid Computing is leading the way in greening the datacenter. By reducing power consumption, stabilizing server-room temperature using liquid cooling techniques, and reducing the amount of racks needed, this is true green computing!

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Whitepaper: Five Ways to Reduce Data Center Server Power Consumption

This document only addresses changes that can be made at the server1 level. Other white papers from The Green Grid will address power, cooling, airflow, consolidation, virtualization and a host of other mechanisms to increase efficiency elsewhere in the data center. Reducing energy use at the point of consumption (the server) provides benefits at all other levels by reducing load on power and cooling facilities which in turn reduces their own energy use.

Source: The Green Grid

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Whitepaper: The Green Grid Data Center Power Efficiency Metrics: PUE and DCiE

The Green Grid is an association of IT professionals seeking to dramatically raise the energy efficiency of data centers through a series of short-term and long-term proposals. This is an update to the very first white paper published by the Green Grid in February 2007 called “Green Grid Metrics: Describing Data Center Power Efficiency” to refine the nomenclature and intent of that paper. In that paper, The Green Grid proposed the use of Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) and its reciprocal, Data Center Efficiency (DCE) metrics, which enable data center operators to quickly estimate the energy efficiency of their data centers, compare the results against other data centers, and determine if any energy efficiency improvements need to be made. Since then, PUE has received broad adoption in the industry but DCE has had limited success due to the misconception of what data center efficiency really means. As a result, this paper reaffirms the use of PUE but redefines its reciprocal as data center infrastructure efficiency (DCiE). This refinement will avoid much of the confusion around DCE and will now be called DCiE.

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Johnson Controls, IBM Integrate ‘Green’ Software

July 11, 2008 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Johnson Controls (johnsoncontrols.com) announced on Friday it plans to integrate IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Energy Management software (ibm.com/software/tivoli/products/monitor-green-energy) to enable data centers to be more energy efficient and sustainable.

The offering combines the advanced energy monitoring and control capabilities of Johnson Controls Metasys building management system with data center energy management capabilities provided by IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Energy Management software.

Both systems provide real-time monitoring and control to individual aspects of the infrastructure - Metasys building management system for building and system infrastructure, while IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Energy Management software for a facility’s IT infrastructure.

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Internode to Build $3M Green Facility

July 8, 2008 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Australian Internet service provider Internode (internode.on.net) announced on Tuesday it plans to build a $3 million ‘green’ data center for the Adelaide CBD after the previous data center it opened last year filled to capacity twice as fast as expected.

Technology executives from Internode are currently researching different environmentally-friendly initiatives elsewhere in Australia and in the US to determine methods in which it can reduce its carbon footprint.

The company has taken its first steps towards green practices, having recently achieved carbon-neutral status after a carbon audit for 2006 to 2007. The company uses solar-powered towers in the Coorong District to deliver wireless broadband services throughout the remote regional area of South Australia.

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