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Big Blue wants tech to get water management flowing
News Upgrading the water utility infrastructure is analogous to the many smart-grid technologies now being tested to make the grid run more efficiently and use more renewable energy. The hard truth is that... [08 Sep 2009]
The Green Grid Data Center Power Efficiency Metrics: PUE and DCiE
White Paper The Green Grid is an association of IT professionals seeking to dramatically raise the energy efficiency of data centers through a series of short-term and long-term proposals. This is an update to the... [01 Apr 2009]
Green IT Is Essential to Green Government
White Paper The Green Grid is working toward Establishing Greater Energy Efficiency in Data Centers by defining and promoting energy-efficient practices. Environmentally conscious, or "Green" IT... [01 Apr 2009]
GO GREEN IT Resource Kit
White Paper The GO GREEN IT Resource Kit, by The Green Grid, is a comprehensive source for IT professionals to get eco-friendly research and tools including: Incorporating Green IT... [18 Mar 2009]
Photos: A look inside one of the world's most efficient datacentres
Photo Developed by The Green Grid - an industry consortium promoting datacentre efficiency - the PUE is calculated by dividing the total facility power by the power actually used by IT equipment. This is the... [17 Mar 2009]
VC spend goes green in 2008
News Other sectors with healthy investor interest included smart-grid companies, small-scale wind turbines, plastics recycling, green buildings, and agriculture technologies," Fan said.... [07 Jan 2009]
The future of climate change is in Linux's hands
Case Study A scientific project that will help govern how the European Commission tackles climate change is relying on Linux and the Géant academic grid to complete its vital work. With scientists across Europe and beyond... [08 Dec 2008]
Cern CIO on the credit crunch and black holes
Comment That is the same problem at all of our grid centres around the world - they all have got to look at how they can cut power usage by looking at new technologies, green IT and so on. The department looks... [16 Oct 2008]
Guidelines for Energy-Efficient Datacenters
White Paper Power availability is one of the most important challenges facing datacenters today. In the past, datacenter floor space has always loomed as the primary issue. Now, more and more datacenters run out of power availability before they run... [26 Apr 2008]
Green Grid Metrics: Describing Datacenter Power Efficiency
White Paper The Green Grid is an association of IT professionals seeking to dramatically raise the energy efficiency of datacenters through a series of short-term and long-term proposals. For the short term, The... [10 Apr 2008]
The CIO shopping list
Comment Bottom of the tech shopping list for CIOs this year are open source, grid/utility computing and RFID. The main prediction by CIOs for the most-hyped technology in 2008 is green IT, followed by web 2.0... [26 Mar 2008]
Why must IT go green?
Comment The National Grid is reaching breaking point. Green IT is not about compliance or coercion. You may think you are buying a green server but if you manage it inefficiently, it's not as... [03 Dec 2007]
Green Grid Guidelines
White Paper Virtual Infrastructures Create Real Efficiencies. Virtualisation acts as an antidote to the server sprawl that has engulfed data centers. Originally, businesses dedicated single workloads to a single server because it provided... [19 Sep 2007]
It's not easy being green
Comment The National Grid leads to further losses of nearly eight per cent of the remaining power through resistive heat dissipation, and further inefficiencies at substations and distribution to local points of usage account... [25 Jul 2007]
Cheat Sheet: Virtualisation
Cheat Sheet Virtualisation has dipped its finger into a variety of IT pies including blades, green computing, grid computing and service-oriented architectures. Virtualisation? So I get to put on a funky headset and... [04 Jun 2007]
