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Green technology, also called environmental or clean technology, is technology that is directed towards preserving our environment and natural resources to ensure sustainable development. It minimizes elements that cause harm to our surroundings and it includes innovative and efficient ways to produce energy, recycle products, and build structures.
Conclusion: As discussed in "Backup is not Archive!"1, all IT organizations should evaluate deployment of an archival platform. However, based on numerous client conversations and a recent survey, it is clear there are significant project risks in implementing archiving.
While vital power systems such as UPSs and generators stand at the ready to mitigate power glitches, they act in a reactive mode and only provide power after there has been a power event. What if there was a way to know before impending power faults of key systems?
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In the past few years the debate over global warming has shifted dramatically. There is no longer any serious debate about whether it is occurring or whether human actions are largely responsible. The question now is what to do about it. We believe the IT industry has an important, and underappreciated, role to play in global efforts to blunt the worst effects of climate change.
Infrastructure monitoring in the data center is critical for data center managers. They must have constant access to current, accurate information to operate the facility to maintain maximum uptime. Five top strategies for selecting an infrastructure monitoring system are:
The economic downturn that we have seen over the past year is a global problem that may very well get worse before it gets better. Unemployment is on the rise. The cost of oil spiked to an all time high. Tax rate increases are being made. Consumers are spending less. The overall situation just seems glum. So what does this mean to the data center?
Many businesses are utterly dependent on the efficient and optimal functioning of data centers. There are several stumbling blocks on the way to this objective. These include: High energy usage, the need for complicated cooling systems and aging infrastructure. Add to this the increasing demand for green data center solutions and you can see why data center design is such a challenging field.
Data center managers have several opportunities to gain efficiencies from their facilities. Managers should look at three key areas to address these opportunities: the IT equipment inside the data center, other gear inside the facility but outside the data center, and the outside of the building. In this article, we'll review 13 ways that The Green Grid recommends to help maximize efficiency inside the facility.
Success for global green IT depends on the continued collaboration among groups within your company, among technology vendors, data center design and build businesses, energy utilities, governments, and other external organizations.
John Lamb, author of The Greening of IT, explains the basic environmental impact of IT — including data centers' consumption of fossil fuel-based electric energy — and lays the foundation for solutions to those problems.
The University of South Australia's data center transformation delivered savings of 50% on existing costs. How did its IT managers achieve that while also working within the constraints of a five-year plan?
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