Wednesday, June 6th, 2012 I recently saw a comment somewhere that talked about Green IT being deferred or set aside due to lack of funding because of ongoing global economic turmoil. For those who see Green IT in the context of the green washing efforts that requiring spending to gain some benefits that I ...
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Thursday, April 21st, 2011 Given the buzz about big data and conversations or confusion around clouds along with virtualizing virtually anything possible, Green IT has fallen off the Buzzword Bingo Bandwagon.
Green IT like so many other buzzwords and trends typically go through a hype cycle before getting tired, worn out, or disillusioned (see here ...
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Monday, January 3rd, 2011 I recently did an interview with the folks over at Infortrend (a RAID storage company) discussing various industry trends and perspectives including RAID, data footprint reduction (DFR) as well as Green IT including how the Green Gap.
The Green Gap is the disconnect between common messaging around carbon and environment vs. ...
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Monday, August 16th, 2010 No sooner has the dust settled from Dells other recent acquisitions, its back to school shopping time and the latest bargain for the Round Rock Texas folks is bay (San Francisco) area storage vendor 3PAR for $1.15B. As a refresh, some of Dells more recent acquisitions ...
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Thursday, April 22nd, 2010 Here in the northern hemisphere it is late April and thus mid spring time.
That means the trees sprouting their buds, leaves and flowering while other plants and things come to life.
In Minnesota where I live, there is not a cloud in the sky today, the sun is out and ...
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Monday, March 29th, 2010 It is that once a decade activity time this year referred to as the US 2010 Census.
With the 2010 census underway, not to mention also time for completing and submitting your income tax returns, if you are in IT, what about measuring, assessing, taking inventory ...
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Thursday, February 25th, 2010 Welcome to the winter 2010 edition of the Server and StorageIO (StorageIO) news letter. This inaugural edition of the StorageIO news letter coincides with our 5th year in business along with recent web site and blog enhancements.
In an age of social media including facebook, twitter, blogs and video, some might ...
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Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 There are many different aspects of Green IT along with several myths or misperceptions not to mention missed opportunities.
There is a Green Gap or disconnect between environmentally aware, focused messaging and core IT data center issues. For example, when I ask IT professionals whether they ...
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Wednesday, February 10th, 2010 IBM recently announced the Power7 as the latest generation of processors that the company uses in some of its mid range and high end compute servers including the iSeries and pSeries.
IBM Power7 processor wafers (chips)
What is the Power7 processor?
The Power7 is the latest ...
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Monday, January 25th, 2010 CCSE Facility and Seminar Series
This past week I had the honor of delivering a keynote presentation in San Diego at the California Center for Sustainable Energy (CCSE) as part of their continuing education and community outreach and education, workshop and seminar series. The theme ...
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Wednesday, January 13th, 2010 Following up on a recent previous post pertaining to US EPA Energy Star(r) for Servers, Data Center Storage and Data Centers, there will be a workshop held Tuesday February 2, 2010 in San Jose, CA.
Here is the note (Italics added by me for clarity) from the folks ...
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Monday, December 28th, 2009 Following up on previous posts pertaining to US EPA Energy Star for Servers, Data Center Storage and Data Centers, here is a note received today with some new information. For those interested in the evolving Energy Star for Data Center, Servers and Storage, have a look at the following as ...
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Tuesday, December 8th, 2009 Some vendors are doing better than others and first generation MAID (Massive or monolithic Array of Idle Disks) might be dead or about to be deceased, spun down or put into a long term sleep mode, it is safe to say that second generation MAID (e.g. ...
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Tuesday, November 24th, 2009 Some believe that green storage is specifically designed to reduce power and cooling costs.
The reality is that there are many ways to reduce environmental impact while enhancing the economics of data storage besides simply booting utilizing.
These include optimizing data storage capacity as well as boosting performance ...
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