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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 out of... [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 Green Grid is proposing the use of Power Usage... [11 Apr 2008]
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 very first white paper published by the Green... [11 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 and social networking, m-commerce and - look... [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 green as my old server that's properly optimised. [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 reliability... [20 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 for yet more waste. [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 walk around a simulated landscape shooting... [04 Jun 2007]
Photos of the month - May 2007
Photo Handling all this information and dishing it out to 5,000 scientists around the world is no mean feat so a global grid has been put together to distribute and filter the data. Find out more about the super-grid behind the LHC and see shots inside... [30 May 2007]
Virtualisation gets trendy
Comment Virtualisation is now involved in the most trendy fields in the industry including data centre automation, utility computing, green computing, security, business continuity, blades, grid and SOA. Grid computing is also an example of resource... [15 May 2007]
Cost and energy benefits driving virtualisation
News Combining multiple grid computing farms and adding virtualisation is also on the agenda. Paul Hopkins, IT director at Newcastle University, said: "There are lots of different and often complimentary reasons, including capital cost savings, revenue... [04 May 2007]
Intel signs up to Green Grid movement
News The Green Grid, an IT industry effort to encourage the reduction of power consumption, declared itself open for business yesterday with a new membership structure and the inclusion of Intel. When The Green Grid initiative was first launched in... [27 Feb 2007]
Re:Viewing 2005: Photos of the year
Photo November 2005: silicon.com's Steve Ranger visits the world's largest grid computing project at the CCLRC e-Science Centre at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire. See more photos of the world's biggest grid here. [20 Dec 2005]
Sun boss scorches rivals and open source
News Speaking at the Executive Forum event just outside Glasgow, Scotland, McNealy was his typically rambunctious self, adding grid computing and open source to the usual industry hit-list which traditionally includes Sun rivals IBM and Microsoft. [09 Jun 2005]
What does WEEE mean to IT?
News The WEEE Directive could bring on more charitable donations as well as reuse of hardware within an organisation, especially at the server level, where a powerful system could be retired to a less resource-intensive job such as in a grid or... [17 Feb 2005]
