Green from the roots up, Sustainable from the top down
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Speaking of data centers, I was delighted to read this morning of a partnership between IBM and Indian bank Kotak.
According to the release, IBM is helping the bank consolidate its server rooms into one data center and Kotak will save:
over US$1.2 million in operational efficiency and reduced energy costs over the next five years
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I received an email over the holidays from someone who was building a data center and who wanted some advice on how to make it Greener. I replied with a few suggestions from my experience building the hyper energy-efficient data center at CIX and then thought why not flesh out my response [...]
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Building a Hyper Energy Efficient Data Center
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I am speaking next week at a virtual conference called “bMighty – A Deep Dive on IT Infrastructure for SMBs” – apologies in advance for the state of the website(!)
My talk is titled “How to build a hyper Energy-efficient Data Center” and [...]
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Jon Brodkin wrote a piece in ComputerWorld UK about a survey of RackSpace’s customers which seems to suggest that they ‘won’t pay a premium’ for Green products. John goes on to extrapolate that they:
found some results suggesting businesses are losing interest in green technology.
There are a number of problems with this assumption. First [...]
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I love this ad. It demonstrates that not only has IBM a sense of humour but also that they have the right story – today, with soaring energy prices, Green is where economic and ecological concerns converge.
Last year IBM announced Project Big Green. This was a commitment by IBM to re-direct $1 billion USD per [...]
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As you probably know by now, we’re very interested in the idea of what might constitute a green API or protocol, so I was very interested when I received a link via twitter from @Straxus (Ryan Slobojan).
The Aon Scéal? (That’s Any News in Gaelic) blog by Alastrain McKinstry points to this piece by Yves Poppe [...]
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Just the other day I say we wouldn’t be covering Carbon Calculators unless they ran on AMEE. Wrong. This afternoon I got a link from Joseph Simpson at MovementDesign and it got me thinking. I have no idea why a thinktank dedicated to the future of movement wouldn’t actually blog the link rather than sending [...]
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Barclays Bank and technology provider HP have just signed a deal to roll out new cooling technology at Barclays’ new Gloucester data center. According to the press release
HP’s Dynamic Smart Cooling (DSC) solution contributes significantly to a package of energy saving measures which will allow Barclays to save up to 13.4% of total energy [...]
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