REI Datacenter-Cooling Upgrade Pays for Itself in a Year Kevin Fogarty, October 4, 2013 5 min read A refit cut cooling costs more than 90 percent at REI Making datacenters more power efficient has become a priority...
Intel Console to Get Better View of Which Apps Waste Energy Kevin Fogarty, September 30, 2013 3 min read Integrated TSO/Intel apps to search in detail for wasted energy. TSO Logic and Intel have announced plans to...
Energy Dept. Datacenter Investigates Fuel Cells, Low-PUE Design Kevin Fogarty, September 17, 2013 7 min read The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has combined two of the things highest on the priority list of enterprise IT...
Facebook Saves Datacenter Costs with Frigid Arctic Wind Kevin Fogarty, June 13, 2013 3 min read Inside Facebook's new facility. One year and seven months after beginning construction, Facebook has brought its...
Big Getting Bigger, Uptime Data Center Survey Finds Mark Hachman, April 25, 2013 4 min read The big are getting bigger: that's the conclusion of preliminary data collection by the Uptime Institute, which...
Facebook Provides Near-Real-Time PUE Data for Its Data Centers Mark Hachman, April 18, 2013 4 min read Facebook's new dashboards for monitoring its data centers' power and water use. Facebook has added real-time...
Green Grid Publishes Recycling Metric Mark Hachman, March 6, 2013 3 min read Another day, another efficiency metric? The Green Grid, which helped popularize metrics for minimizing wasted...
How eBay Created Its Own Transaction Metric for Data Centers Mark Hachman, March 6, 2013 4 min read Online auction giant eBay has developed an application-specific metric for evaluating the efficiency of its server...
Microsoft Nears $1 Billion in Virginia Data-Center Investment Mark Hachman, January 31, 2013 3 min read The state of Virginia announced Jan. 30 that Microsoft is investing $348 million more to expand its modular data center...
New Data Center Metrics for the Green Grid Mark Hachman, November 19, 2012 3 min read Move over, Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE). There’s a new energy-efficiency metric in town. Well, there’s...