Data
Schneider Electric: Transitioning from Transistors to Smart Grids
The 170-year-old company is in the midst of a rejuvenation, throwing its tools and experience behind a holistic energy management platform aimed at reducing energy use across the enterprise. Read More
IBM's New Data Center Brings Home the Gold
IBM chose an existing building to house what would become the company's most technologically advanced green data center. Re-use of the building, along with a slew of energy- and water-saving measures, helped land the data center a LEED Gold certification. Read More
Yahoo Spreads its Wings with 'Chicken Coop' Data Center
The company's next-generation facility is modeled after a chicken coop design to maximize its ability to use free outside-air cooling. Read More
HP's Flexible 'Butterfly' Data Center Prefabbed to Save Costs
The company's new modular facility is targeted at companies' rapidly growing data storage and management needs, and is designed to cut energy and cooling costs significantly. Read More
Five Benefits of Data Center Energy Management
The amount of money wasted each year on idling servers equals the cost of the Apollo space program. But a number of simple strategies can help get your server load under control and start your company saving energy and money. Read More
NetApp Scores First-Ever Energy Star Label for Data Centers
One month after the new green data center certification opened for business, the company has become the first to earn the label for its RTP data center, with a score of 99 out of a possible 100. Read More
Obama Orders Federal Data Center Consolidation, Expects $3B in Savings
In a memorandum signed last week, the president ordered all federal agencies to halt the growth of their data centers, and to focus on consolidating and combining facilities within five years. Read More
eBay's Newest Data Center Uses Half the Energy, Aims for LEED Gold
The online retailer's 240,000 square foot building will have a PUE of 1.4, and will use 50 percent less energy than the average of all the other data centers it leases around the globe. Read More
HP Envisions Cow-Powered Data Centers
Calling the connection between manure and computing a "symbiotic relationship," a new research paper from HP Labs outlines how a mid-sized dairy farm can power a one-megawatt data center. Read More
What Data Centers Can Teach the World about Earth Day
With the annual hype of Earth Day accelerated by the big 40th anniversary, it's high time to look at how data centers have gotten far ahead of the rest of the enterprise when it comes to going green. Read More