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

RichardsoNEyres Issues Green Study

By Justin Lee, theWHIR.com

August 26, 2008 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Data center infrastructure provider RichardsoNEyres (richardsoneyres.co.uk) announced on Tuesday it released new research that reveal that many data center operators are not taking green issues seriously enough and are adopting a do-it-yourself approach.

Conducted in association with industry analysts IDL, the RichardsoNEyres report highlights the main data center challenges IT managers are currently facing and includes a six-step action plan to help businesses overcome these issues.

The challenges start with a infrastructure and data center review in an effort to devise an action plan to simultaneously reduce cost, improve performance and reduce environmental impact. (more…)

Tags: emissions, Energy Star, IDL, RichardsoNEyres, virtualization

PG&E Expands Energy-Savings Rebates

By Justin Lee, theWHIR.com

August 5, 2008 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — California utility Pacific Gas & Electric Co. (pge.com) has now added storage virtualization and thin provisioning to its list of energy-saving technologies that qualify for customer rebates, along with server virtualization and wide range of idle drives, as reported on InfoWorld.

The news follows storage vendor and thin provisioning pioneer 3PAR (3par.com) recent announcement for its Virtual Technology Incentive Program.

PG&E’s energy-savings rebates apply to most of the San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley, which are home to many technology companies and data centers that greatly need to reduce energy consumption. As incentive, the utility offers as much as 70 percent of the cost for companies that meet program requirements.

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Tags: Pacific Gas & Electric Co., virtualization

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

Data Centers Big Polluters, says Study

May 6, 2008 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Data centers produce higher gas emissions than the countries of Argentina and the Netherlands and are projected to surpass the airline industry as carbon emitters by 2020, according to a new study by McKinsey & Company (mckinsey.com).

The study uses data from the Uptime Institute, a research and advisory organization for data center users, was released at the Green Enterprise Computing Symposium in Orlando, Florida and predominantly focuses on the cost and energy saving opportunities being “squandered” today in corporate and government data centers.

According to reports in the New York Times, William Forrest, the lead McKinsey consultant on the report, says that the carbon dioxide emissions attributable to the electricity consumed by fast-expanding data centers will rise fourfold by 2020 and that the greenhouse gas impact of data centers is “not yet counted and likely to be very significant.”

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Tags: cooling, data center, government, research, The Green Grid, Uptime Institute, virtualization

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