TrendPoint’s Four-Point “Green Data Center” Plan

By Liam Eagle, theWHIR.com

We received a very long press release this week from TrendPoint Systems, a company that produces a “turn-key data center energy management solution.”

It’s not a company we’re especially familiar with at the WHIR, but with TrendPoint’s fairly singular focus on data center energy efficiency and carbon monitoring, it’s an organization that ought to be thoroughly on the radar of the hosting business.

Along with its TrendOne, EnerSure and EnviroCube products, which are generally hardware offerings designed to monitor environmental conditions and energy efficiency in enterprise data centers, the company appears to be actively publishing white papers on the general subject of data center efficiency, which makes it especially relevant to just about anyone operating a data center.

I know at the WHIR, we’ve got a pretty heavy appetite for published “green data center” information at the moment. (more…)

Tags: data center, energy efficiency, heating and cooling, TrendPoint Systems, virtualization

Whitepaper: The Green Grid Peer Review of “DC Power for Improved Data Center Efficiency”

As the demands on data centers increase, creating higher costs and power usage, the industry is looking for ways to increase efficiency and decrease operating costs in the data center. One potential area of increased efficiency lies in the power distribution configuration within the data center and its IT equipment. In early 2007, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) posted results of a direct current (DC) demonstration project, which operated from June to August of 2006. Here, a peer review of that study is provided, including a critical review of the results as well as a discussion of next steps in the evaluation of this and other power distribution topologies.

Source: The Green Grid

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Tags: "data center power efficiency", "lawrence berkeley", The Green Grid

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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Tags: "data center power consumption", airflow, cooling, virtualization

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.

Source: The Green Grid

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Tags: data center efficiency, dce, pue, The Green Grid

Whitepaper: Rackspace Green Survey

In 2007 Rackspace conducted a survey to gain insight into the perceptions that their business customers have regarding environmental issues and the impact of IT on climate change. With the changes that have happened in technology and the economy, they decided to survey their customers again in June 2008 to determine if trends have changed. This information allows Rackspace to better understand their customers’ business decisions and how environmental responsibility plays into those decisions.

Take a look at the key findings in the Rackspace Green Survey Whitepaper (pdf)

Interview: John Engates, Rackspace by theWHIR.com

Source: Rackspace.com

Tags: "environmental responsibility", "green survey", greenspace, Rackspace, whitepaper

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