Data

Sun Microsystems cut the ribbon on its largest green IT project, a revamped and consolidated datacenter that is expected to slash electricity costs by $1 million a year, reduce CO2 emissions by 11,000 metric tons annually, shrink the company's carbon footprint by 6 percent and save 675,000 gallons of water each year. Read More

One of the centerpieces of President-elect Obama's energey plan is a cap-and-trade program designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 80% by 2050. That means that enterprise may eventually have a cap put on the amount of greenhouse gases they emit, and would have to pay if they wanted to exceed those emissions. Would that mean you'll have to pay what amounts to a carbon tax for an inefficient data center? Read More

The country's leading tech companies showcased their innovations and green strategies at the recent CEATEC electronics show. Read More

The past year has brought a sea change in the world of IT, with big changes underway in every aspect of computers' lifecycles, as well as increasing awareness of the power of the computer age to address larger environmental issues. Read More

This consolidated report is the first of its kind to evaluate the EPA's data center energy growth scenarios using the real results of energy savings as measured from the case studies from industry leaders. Read More

Virtualization is one of the most important eco-friendly moves a data center can make and, undeniably, one of the smartest from the pure IT-technology perspective. In this feature, Andrew Binstock explains simple solutions to some of the stumbling blocks in going virtual. Read More

This PowerPoint presentation from the EPA offers background on the Energy Star Buildings program and the goals, process, and timeline for developing the Energy Star rating for data center infrastructure. Read More

This white paper from the Green Grid introduces a family of data center resource optimization metrics called Data Center Productivity (DCP) metrics and presents the first derivative metric within this family called Data Center energy productivity (DCep). Read More

If you're looking for a new tool to help you track your effectiveness in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, you'll find the free OpenEco.org a great resource. The site has been around a while, but recently was revamped. If you know of it, but haven't used it for a while, it's worth checking again. And if you've never used it, now is a good time to try it. Read More

For years, there's been a great debate among consumers whether turning off their PCs at night is a good way to save electricity, or whether it reduces the lives of their computers. Now, with power-savings one of the core missions of Green IT, professionals are debating whether they should power down servers at night as well. Read More