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.

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Whitepaper: The Green Grid Opportunity

The Green Grid examines why it is so important to define and propagate the best energy efficiency practices in datacenter operation, construction and design. In this paper, The Green Grid has identified both short-term and long-term objectives to increase the energy efficiency of datacenters and IT infrastructure equipment.

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Whitepaper: The Green Grid Metrics: Describing Data Center Power Efficiency

The Green Grid explains the use of the Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) metric, along with its reciprocal the Data Center Efficiency (DCE) metric. These metrics are designed to allow a data center operator to relatively quickly estimate the energy efficiency of their data center, as well as to quantify how the data center stacks up against its peers.

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Whitepaper: IBM The green data center

More than social responsibility: a foundation for growth, economic gain and operating stability

The message is clear: Energy costs are rising, supply is limited, the data center infrastructure is being taxed, and its ability to meet business demands is at stake. CIOs who want to solve these problems will need to focus on data center innovation. Fortunately, green strategies and technologies exist today to help optimize space, power, cooling and resiliency while improving operational management and reducing costs—at the same time, helping to position companies for growth and enabling CIOs to meet expanding business needs.

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