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Green Grid Consortium - energy efficiency in data centers
The Green Grid is a global consortium dedicated to advancing energy efficiency in data centers and business computing ecosystems. The Green Grid is focused on the following: defining meaningful, user-centric models and metrics; developing standards, measurement methods, processes and new technologies to improve data center performance against the defined metrics; and promoting the adoption of energy efficient standards, processes, measurements and technologies. - Read More
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Topics : Organization
Eco Friendly IT Initiatives
Technology will be a key enabler of green initiatives?the network can become a platform to transform how global environmental challenges are managed. Concepts such as alternate and renewable sources of energy, re-cycling, e-waste management, green architecture, eco-friendly computing, green data centers, virtualization, power management and reducing the corporate carbon footprint will gain priority on corporate agendas. - Read More
Green IT Is Cheaper, European Businesses Catching on to Savings
Run by IDC, the survey found that nearly half of European companies have already awoken to how much better it is overall to run data centers and operations efficiently, and are incorporating efficient practices. A full 34% have plans already in place, and 15% more have plans going up that will be acted upon within two years. - Read More
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Topics : Finance
Flywheels Keep Data Centers Flying
Spinning disks are starting to replace solid-state batteries for energy storage. Flywheel UPS store electric energy as kinetic energy in the form of heavy, spinning disks, which can produce electricity on demand. A flywheel UPS sitting between the data center and the grid can ensure that little power hiccups won’t knock out the system. Pentadyne, Active Power and VYCON all make flywheel UPSs for data centers; in fact it’s one of their fastest-growing market segments. - Read More
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Topics : Energy Storage