October 30, 2009 – 2:26 pm
Reducing power consumption in the data center has moved from a nice-to-have to a necessity. No surprise that a ‘green’ drive sounds appealing for servers and storage systems.
Drive manufacturers have [....]
By Pete Steege
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Posted in Green IT, Products, Uncategorized
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Also tagged 2 TB, 2TB, business critical, Caviar, constellation, Constellation ES, nearline, powerchoice, PowerTrim, RE-GP, Seagate, WD, western digital
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Energy efficiency is goodness, never more than this year. That’s reflected in the IT industry with a never-more-than-now focus on reducing power consumption. But some of the most valuable efficiency [....]
By Pete Steege
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Posted in Data Center, Green IT
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Also tagged cooling, data center, disk drive, encryption, energy efficiency, fde, Green IT, how to, ibm, IT, power management, reduce, Seagate, secure erase, SED, self-encrypting drives, supercomputer
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The EPA is working on an Energy Star specification for storage systems, much like they’ve developed for servers.
Unlike the server specification, the EPA is focusing on power consumption [....]
By Pete Steege
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Posted in Data Center, Green IT, Servers, Storage Systems
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Also tagged energy efficiency, Energy Star, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, refrigerator, SearchStorage, server, storage
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Graphic source: Google
TechCrunchIT points to Google’s laudable sustainability efforts, including their recent Efficient Data Center Summit.
I’ve written before about Google’s holistic approach to data centers that [....]
By Pete Steege
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Posted in Data Center
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Also tagged 2009, data centers, disk drives, Earth Day, efficiency, google, low power, reduce reuse recycle, repair, storage, sustainability, sustainable, Technology
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As luck would have it, in addition to celebrating St. Patrick’s Day this week I stumbled on the realization that corporations can now get “in-the-green” by leveraging their existing IP [....]
I’ve spent the last couple of months watching our power usage at home to see if the changes I make in our daily living actually lowers the monthly bill. I’m [....]
