Drawing from his book The Green and Virtual Data Center, StorageIO Group Founder and Senior Analyst Greg Schulz talks about the most significant issues facing IT in terms of “greening” the data center. He explains the energy savings mode of the new Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series as well as illustrating the differences between energy efficiency and energy avoidance in the new processor.
Posts Tagged ‘green’
Reduce Energy Usage while Increasing Business Productivity in the Data Center
Monday, May 11th, 2009The Green Grid
Friday, April 17th, 2009In the video, Jon Haas of Intel’s EcoTechnology Program Office explains how The Green Grid, a global consortium dedicated to developing and promoting energy efficiency for data centers and information service delivery, is tackling the energy issues. Data center managers around the world are running into limits related to power, cooling, and space – and the rise in demand for the important work of data centers has created a noticeable impact on the world’s power grids. In response, the members of The Green Grid have taken up the challenge of developing metrics to measure data center efficiency and the tools to improve it. (more…)
Climate Savers Computing Initiative
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009Climate Savers Computing Initiative (CSCI), a non-profit organization founded in 2007 by a group of leading technology companies and the World Wildlife Fund, has a mission to reduce global CO2 emissions from computing by 54 million tons per year by 2010. This short video features Lorie Wigle, president of CSCI and General Manager of Intel’s EcoTechnology Program Office. In the video, she explains how CSCI seeks to promote computing energy efficiency thereby reducing computing CO2 emissions. CSCI uniquely brings together both computer manufacturers and computer users to encourage a market transformation around computer energy efficiency and power management. (more…)
State of Indiana: Reducing CO2 Emissions through Remote Services and Off-Hours Power Management
Thursday, February 26th, 2009The State of Indiana conducted a manageability assessment of PCs with Intel® Core™2 processor with vPro™ technology. Their decision to convert 20,000 desktop systems to PCs with Intel® vPro™ technology within four years was based on reduced operational expenses. An additional benefit was the reduced task time for some types of software diagnoses and repairs that can reduce nearly 860,000 pounds of CO2 emissions across four years. (more…)
It Can be Easy Being Green
Sunday, October 19th, 2008With energy-optimized hardware, smart siting, attention to detail and some financial incentives, EasyStreet Online Services sees its plans for a new data center as a potential blueprint for future energy-efficient facilities. (more…)
The following articles are also part of this issue of the Intel Premier IT Magazine:
- Intel Premier IT Magazine Winter 2009 Edition: Defining the Future of IT
- Crossing the Chasm Between Humans and Machines
- Making the Most of IT
- The Value Influence
- Intel’s New Approach to Strategic Planning
- The Future Will be Simulated
- Mad Dogs and Oil Men
- Virtualization Test
- Out With the New, In With the Newest
- The Fast and The Virtual
- It’s a Business Decision: Managing PCs in Small Business
- It Can be Easy Being Green
- Mashups for the Masses
- Intelpedia Grows Up
Data Center Heat Recovery Helps Intel Create Green Facility
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008To support Intel’s first planned certified green building, Intel IT has designed a system that saves energy by recovering data center heat and using it to heat the rest of the building. Get the details in this IT@Intel white paper.
Go Green Power Plan
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008The report summarized in this presentation and underwritten by Hewlett-Packard and Intel, estimates that the federal government spends about a 1/2 billion dollars annually to power their data centers. The report goes on to suggest how the government might save 40% of that amount. (more…)