How to baseline power consumption, Silicon.com, 14 December 2007
IBM and HP both have software that can tell their own systems management tools how much energy their servers are using, which is great for those IT departments which exclusively run that equipment. But their solutions don't play well with other vendors' systems, argues Gartner's Kumar. Another option is a data centre modelling tool from Rackwise or such like.
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The Green Data Center, The Data Center Journal, print edition, Novemeber 21st, 2007
Doing What's Right with Doing What's Practical. A great deal is written about putting in green systems by using exotice alternative energy technologies...
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Going Green In The Data Center, PROCESSOR, September 28th, 2007
Practical Steps For Your SME To Become More
Environmentally Friendly
For the past four decades, the data center has been all about extreme power. Vendors
designed servers, storage networks, and the entire computing environment for optimal
performance...
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Behind the scenes of "Pimp your data center" Part 2, InfoWorld, July 24th, 2007
Today is RackWise Training being done by Kristine Astrom of RackWise. The goal is to create in Visio+RackWise both a physical and
logical layout of the new data center. Since floor loading has become an issue in this geriatric building, we're paying close attention to the weight thresholds in addition to the normal heat and power thresholds...
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Behind the scenes of "Pimp your data center" Part 1, InfoWorld, July 20th, 2007
We've all seen the excitement that television shows like Extreme Makeover creates and Oliver Rist and I are working with the University
of Hawai'i School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) on Pimping out one of our smaller data centers on the 3rd floor
of the Hawai'i Institute of Geophysics (HIG)...
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Making Effective & Informed Decisions with Modeling, Data Center Journal, July 18th, 2007
Knowing just where you are within the data center you work every day would seem something you would obviously know.
However, most of us are so consumed with the current problem at hand that we really just don’t have the time to step back a
take a look at the bigger picture...
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Keep Your Data Center In Perspective, PROCESSOR, April 27th, 2007
Does your data center perfectly fit your company’s IT requirements and business needs? Can you manage your data center hardware and software with ease? Can you quickly access servers and devices throughout your data center (as well as those located in remote facilities)?...
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