Articles associated with topic: power

• IBM Investing Another $1 Billion in Linux

  IBM is making a fresh billion-dollar investment in Linux. IBM Fellow (and vice president) Bradley McCredie took the stage at this year’s LinuxCon North America to talk Linux, the cloud, and how the combination…
• Utah Set to Exempt NSA Datacenter From Power Tax, After All

  [caption id="attachment_11357" align="aligncenter" width="600"] The NSA's Utah facility under construction.[/caption] They may not all support what the NSA will do with its giant new datacenter in Bluffdale, bu…
• Making Your Datacenter Into Less of a Rabid Zombie Power Hog

  [caption id="attachment_10707" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Power-efficient hardware, and remembering to power down systems when not in use, is the best (and most obvious) way to make a datacenter "green."[…
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  Instead of Retiring Servers, Why Not Power Them Down?

  Data center providers normally try to "right size" their facilities, either via consolidating older servers or making sure servers are running at peak efficiency through virtualization. TSO Logic has offered a…
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  Changing The Way The World Moves

  How Ford’s Technical Specialists Manage a Globalized Workforce The automotive industry is in a state of rapid change. In addition to the expedient move to electrification, auto manufacturers around the world ar…
• Poop Powers Experimental Microsoft Data Center

  Microsoft, FuelCell Energy and a collection of local Cheyenne, Wyoming companies are collaborating on a project to supply one of Microsoft’s local data centers with biogas, in a bid to determine if what we poop…
• Dems: Something Must Be Done to Curb Data Center Power

  In response to the recent New York Times series on the massive power consumption used by data centers, lawmakers have asked for the status of a congressionally mandated energy-efficiency program for data center…
• New York Times Takes Aim at Data Centers

  The New York Times’ latest expose takes on data centers, but the Gray Lady’s investigation has prompted its own criticism. While the paper correctly noted that there's a backend cost attached to the storage of…
• Hot In Here: Intel Tests High-Temp Data Centers in Korea

  Not every data center can be built in Finland, where near-Arctic winds provide abundant natural cooling. What can a data center operator do in a hot, humid country like Korea? Find a way to run the data center…
• Microsoft Offers Tips for Green Data Centers

  Microsoft has released a lengthy whitepaper describing ten practices for green data centers, mostly based on efficiently matching workloads to hardware. Unsurprisingly, the paper encourages the use of virtualiz…
• ComEd Offers Incentives to Lower Power Use

  Commonwealth Edison Company (ComEd), the utility company serving the Chicago area, has put in place financial incentives to help data center operators optimize power consumption. ComEd serves about 3.8 million…
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  Why Finding Your 'Work-Life Integration' is Better Than 'Work-Life Balance'

  We’re all familiar with the so-called Work-Life Balance. But, this conjures up visions of see-saws that must be perfectly balanced with equal weights on both ends at all times to ensure success. I personally be…