ZDNet Speaks with Dell’s Green Guru

June 6, 2008 — (GREEN DATA CENTER INFO) — A few week’s ago, ZDNet’s Heather Clancy spoke with Dell’s (dell.com) ”green guru”, Albert Esser, vice president of power and infrastructure.

Apparently, Dell is the first high-tech vendor to reach the Silver level under the 80 Plus power supply designation, which means Dell has met power supply qualifications set by the Climate Savers Computing Initiative, a year ahead of schedule.

“The 80 PLUS performance specification requires multi-output power supplies in computers and servers to be 80% or greater energy efficient at 20%, 50% and 100% of rated load with a true power factor of 0.9 or greater.”

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Web Host Sharkspace Uses ‘Green’ Servers

May 21, 2008 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider SharkSpace (sharkspace.com) announced on Monday it has moved its entire server fleet to new energy efficient Dell servers, in an effort to better protect the environment.

The company says that new Dell servers consume up to 25 percent less energy than previous generations, and when coupled with performance gains, this results in up to a 300 percent increase in performance per watt over previous generations.

In addition to the new server fleet and lighting, Sharkspace says it will also cut its energy use by converting its paper files to electronic versions through document imaging technology. The conversion is expected to cut the web host’s paper use by half.

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Tags: carbon emissions, Dell, energy efficiency, SharkSpace

Web Hosting’s Green Movement

By Dennis McCafferty

There’s a shift going on in the hosting world, toward eco-friendly business - as a community of industry associations, government organizations and other would-be policy makers work to define “green” hosting

It may not be easy being green – but it could be worth the effort.

That’s the picture painted by recent activity in the hosting industry: Environmental policy advocates and government leaders are working with industry executives to explore virtualization and other practices as ways of reducing dependence on the energy-sapping equipment now fueling data centers.

In New York, one hosting company is using hybrid vehicles to transport servers, among other efforts.

And in San Antonio, Rackspace, another host, isn’t only turning to virtualization as a way to reduce consumption – it’s launching a comprehensive, company-to-customer series of green initiatives, including supporting wind turbine farms in the US.

“Why are we doing this?” says John Engates, CTO of Rackspace. “Because the environment right now is in a very dangerous state. Internet and data-center infrastructure are growing at a very fast pace, and we’re going to ruin the planet if we don’t do anything about it. As a large data-center operator, our customers expect us to take the initiative to do the right thing. But there are self-serving reasons as well. We save on energy costs and equipment costs to our customers by doing this, and that puts us in a better financial situation.”

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