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Book Review: Making Your Data Center Energy Efficient
Making Your Data Center Energy Efficient by Gilbert Held is a 2012 book that promised methods to reduce the energy consumption and the costs associated with operating data centers. One method could be using solar power with an installer like … Continue reading
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Tagged Data Center, Financial Analysis, Green IT, IT Budget, IT Finance
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Data Center Performance Looking Beyond PUE to CUE
Data center performance is much more than its PUE and must account for asset utilization, total energy costs and carbon usage effectiveness (CUE). I am sure most CIO’s and data center managers already know this from their efforts to reduce costs … Continue reading
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Tagged Data Center, Energy Star Data Center, Green IT, IT Budget, IT Finance, IT Planning, Virtualization
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Data Center Energy Consumption is 2% of Total US Electricity
Data center energy consumption accounted for 1.3% of all the electricity used in the world in 2010. For the US, data centers accounted for 2% of all electricity which was lower than predicted. That’s according to the research report Worldwide Electricity Used in … Continue reading
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Tagged Data Center, Energy Star Data Center, Green IT, IT Planning, PUE, Virtualization
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PUE Version 2 Improves Green Data Center Measurements
Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) is the accepted metric for measuring and reporting data center energy performance. But with so much interest in green data centers in recent years there was a need to create greater consistency and clarity in how power usage … Continue reading
Will ABC News Made In America Examine College IT Purchasing
ABC News Made In America series has turned its scrutiny on America’s colleges and universities a fact which I am sure most everyone is aware of. Earlier this week Made In America reported 850 colleges and universities had relationships with … Continue reading
Posted in CIO Job, IT Financial Management
Tagged CIO Career, Green IT, IT Budget, IT Finance, Purchasing, Social Media, Vendor Management
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ASHRAE TC 9.9 New Thermal Guidelines for Data Centers
ASHRAE TC 9.9 could not have come at a better time as the dog days of summer have arrived bringing record heat and increased pressure to keep data centers temperature and humidity under control. These conditions challenge goals for GreenIT … Continue reading
Posted in CIO Job, IT Financial Management, IT Risk Management
Tagged Data Center, Green IT, IT Budget, PUE, Risk Management
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Will VDI Get You Fired?
Will VDI get you fired? If you don’t know the answer to that question than the risk of having a career shortening event from a VDI implementation are very high for you. Fear of having a career shortening event (CSE) … Continue reading
