Terremark’s new NAP of the Capital Region

June 23, 2008 — (GREEN DATA CENTER INFO) — ZDNet blogger Heather Clancy reported yesterday that Terremark (terremark.com) is on target with its new green data center set to open this Thursday near Washington, DC.

Clancy first wrote about Terremark Worldwide’s new NAP of the Capital Region in Culpepper, VA, last fall.

In last week’s interview with Norm Laudermilch, the managing director of the facility, Clancy learned about many design points including rotary UPSes, variable-speed fans, modularity, cooling innovation and utility computing support.

To read her entire blog entry, click here.

 

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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.”

Click here to read the full story.

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Video: Novell CEO outlines power management plan at LinuxWorld

June 3, 2008 — (GREEN DATA CENTER INFO) — ZDNet recently produced this video feature of Novell (novell.com) CEO Ron Hovsepian discussing the company’s plan to reduce power consumption by developing more environment-friendly technologies inside the data center.

 

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