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Symposium 2008 Press Coverage
The 2008 Symposium: Green Enterprise Computing was a resounding success with over 440 Delegates participating and contributing to the dialogue and help shape the future of the industry and the direction of the
Institute.
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McKinsey & Company Report on Data Center Energy Efficiency Released!
The capstone of the 2008 Symposium was a presentation of key findings and recommendations of the McKinsey & Company Report: Revolutionizing Data Center Efficiency—Key Analyses. View the presentation and listen to an audio recording of co-author Will Forest from McKinsey & Company.
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NEW! Premium Symposium Content Now Available for Symposium Delegate Registered Users
Access premium content throughout Symposium 2008! Information will continually be added so check back frequently for updates.
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Energy Companies Urging Greener Tech
Washington Post—March 30—Representatives from 19 North American utility companies met in San
Francisco last week to explore ways of cutting IT energy consumption...
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Datacenters Headling for Cash Crunch
InfoWorld—March 26—Datacenter cooling and power consumption costs,
boosted by higher-than-expected rates of server rollout, are leading
datacenters into an economic crisis, according to a survey of 311
enterprise data center managers by the Uptime Institute.
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EPA Moves to Help Put Data Centers on an Energy Diet
Computerworld—March 24—Data center energy consumption may not be out of control, but it has become enough of a concern for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to step in and try to help.
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Data Centres Running Out of Electricity
Computing—March 24—A survey of 311 data centre managers in the US was conducted by the
Uptime Institute earlier this month.
Every respondent reported they were running out of power and cooling capacity,
with some expecting to hit current limits earlier than others.
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Uptime Institute Expands Data Center Tier Rating System
TechTarget—March 20—The Uptime Institute Inc. has written a new paper that defines data center grades to help augment its popular tier standards that characterize data center availability.
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Data-Center Energy Consumption: Worse Than We Thought?
Networkworld—March 12—By now we’ve all heard about the looming data-center power problem. But do we truly understand just what it we’re facing? Perhaps not really, contends Ken Brill, executive director of the Uptime Institute, a widely respected data-center consulting firm that has been tracking data-center energy consumption for years.
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IBM Shows Off Switch with Optical Core
Techworld—March 18—IBM has announced that its scientists have built a switch that can control the flow of information on a chip using pulses of light instead of electrons. The new nanotech switch, which is 100 times smaller than a human hair, is designed to enable researchers to build future chips that will have greater performance but use less energy, IBM said on Monday.
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What is the IT Workforce Reality?
Networkworld—March 19—A day doesn't go by without some survey, study or research report informing the public that the U.S. high-tech industry is desperately lacking skilled IT workers. Such commentary also coincides with news that Microsoft reportedly has more than 4,000 job openings and company Chairman Bill Gates is lobbying for Congress to raise the controversial H-1B visa cap to allow U.S. companies to hire more foreign nationals and fill those empty positions.
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Data Center Power: The Cost Reality
Networkworld—February 19—More IT executives are coming to grips with a grim reality: Data-center power and cooling costs are the hidden enemy of IT departments. They creep up on unsuspecting CIOs like deadly mists and choke off their ability to deploy new equipment and applications.
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Here Comes the Sun: Ideas for Powering Your Data Center
bMighty.com—February 22—Solar powering your data center is good for the environment, but Jimmy Ray Purser has an even more compelling reason to do it: It'll save your smaller business money -- nomatter where it is located.
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Five Ways to Cut Back on Data-Center Power Consumption
Networkworld—February 18—Cutting back on the amount of power a data center consumes isn't necessarily tricky, but it does require a holistic approach that considers the IT, cooling and power infrastructures. As Kfir Godrich, CTO for EYP Mission Critical Facilities, a data center consultancy, says: "If you are not looking at your data center from the utility input down to the chip, and then back to the power and cooling, you are missing the target."
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