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Results tagged "efficiency"

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May the Power Be With You

April 17, 2013 08:10 PM
Companies such as Power Assure are helping data center operators uncover hidden capacity by accurately measuring energy consumption and finding ways to run systems more efficiently.

HP Moonshot: A Big Bet On Innovative Engineering

April 10, 2013 10:34 AM
HP's Moonshot servers are a tour de force of engineering that aim to restore the company's innovation groove. Here are the details.

Dashboard Marries eBay's Data Center and Business Stats

March 20, 2013 02:53 PM
An innovative dashboard from eBay helps executives track key performance metrics and support eBay's drive for greater energy efficiency.

HP Opens Showcase Green IT Data Center In Colorado

March 30, 2011 10:30 AM
HP on Wednesday opened a new data center that is designed to be a research lab for environmentally sustainable practices that use energy efficiently and have as little environmental impact as possible. The 50,000-square foot facility in Fort Collins, Colo., will be unique among HP research facilities in that it will be the first built at scale, running a full complement of 2,000 to 4,000 servers versus the typical research lab that runs on just 10 to 20 servers.

JouleX Updates Software For Emerging ECEM Market

January 11, 2011 08:00 AM
Energy management software maker JouleX is introducing on Monday JouleX Energy Manager (JEM) version 2.5, which helps control energy use within IT systems, and includes the addition of a smartphone application for remote control of those systems. The software product joins a growing market for what the research firm Forrester describes as Enterprise Carbon and Energy Management (ECEM) software.

Viridity's Free Tool Measures Server Power Consumption

October 13, 2010 10:04 AM
Viridity Software is giving away a free energy-efficiency, health check application. The company says the application, Energy Check, will analyze server power-utilization and deliver a report summarizing server utilization and the overall power/cooling savings opportunity in as little as a week. The company developed the tool to address customer demands for a simple, non-intrusive way to understand power consumption, utilization and tying IT investment back to the business. Discovering hidden power, cooling and space capacity can generate cost savings ranging from tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Cautious Optimism Drives IT Employment Growth

September 10, 2010 09:46 AM
U.S. CIOs appear to be bullish going into the fourth quarter, with 45 percent more confident about investing in IT against 18 percent that are less confident, with 36 percent sitting in the middle, according to the latest Robert Half Technology IT Hiring Index and Skills Report. They're less optimistic about hiring, with only 9 percent planning to add IT staff, compared to 6 percent that foresee cutbacks before year-end. The survey is based on telephone interviews with more than 1,400 CIOs from companies across the United States with 100 or more employees.

My Next Data Center: Power Distribution

August 20, 2010 09:00 AM
Now that we've resolved that I'm using AC power coming out of a modular UPS in my next data center, we can look at how I'll get power from the UPS to my server and storage racks. Over the years I've seen all sorts of solutions, from L5-20 twist-lock outlets in the ceiling and orange extension cords under the raised floor, to APC's pre-built whips running in cable troughs on top of the racks. After all that, I definitely know what I like, and don't.

New AMD Processor Focused On Energy Efficiency Over High Performance

June 23, 2010 09:00 AM
Chip maker AMD has introduced its new Opteron 4000 series processor line, code-named Lisbon, that focuses on energy efficiency rather than raw performance, because that's what cloud providers and small-to-medium-sized businesses (SMBs) want in their data centers. Two models in the 4000 series operate at as little as 32 watts for a six-core processor, versus a comparable Intel chip that operates at 40 watts. A six-core 4000 series processor operates on 24 percent less power than an older 6-core 2000 series AMD processor.

SynapSense Launches Breakthrough Adaptive Contro Technology To Automate Data Center Cooling

May 13, 2010 09:49 AM
SynapSense Corporation, a leading provider of wireless instrumentation solutions, today introduced new Adaptive Control technology that provides the world's leading data centers with the ability to continuously align cooling capacity with changes in IT load.

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