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- Playing your part for a greener IT
- With the increasing emphasis on reducing the negative impact on our environment, you must be wondering if there is anything practical at all that you can contribute. Well, PC World has come up with some tips on how to to minimize your power consumption. The best...
- Tags: PC, Information Technology, Power Consumption, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2008-04-15
- Modeling Hard-Disk Power Consumption
- Excessive power consumption is a major barrier to the market acceptance of hard disks in mobile electronic devices. Studying and reducing power consumption, however, often involves running time-intensive disk traces on real hardware with specialized power-monitoring equipment. This paper presents Dempsey, a disk simulation environment that includes accurate modeling of...
- Tags: Disk, Power Consumption, Modeling
- White papers
- Dynamic Power Management Using Feedback
- The increasing speed and complexity of the microprocessor has brought about a corresponding increase in power consumption. Coupled with relatively small gains in battery capacity over recent years, the importance of intelligent battery management has become paramount. This paper presents a mechanism that takes advantage of feedback about power consumption...
- Tags: Power Management, Power Consumption, Battery, Engineering
- White papers
- Blade servers: Data centre power and cooling issues
- IT managers need to reduce power consumption in IT infrastructure. Blades servers â€" which provide a more efficient form of computing than traditional servers â€" could provide an answer.Read this white paper to see how technology leaders can reduce power consumption through blades, and what type of power and cooling...
- Tags: Blade Server, Blade, Power Consumption, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware
- White papers 2008-03-03
- Automation Technology for Virtualized Systems
- There has been a recent trend toward consolidating burgeoning systems onto blade servers in order to optimize IT infrastructures, maximize system investment efficiency, and reduce server power consumption. This trend heightens the demand to increase the efficiency of system integration and operation. Moreover, in line with the increased performance of...
- Tags: Blade Server, Blade, Power Consumption, Fujitsu Ltd., Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Virtualization, Servers, Hardware
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Online carbon footprint and Power Consumption calculator
- The online carbon footprint and power consumption calculator from Logicalis will help organizations estimate the advantages of virtualization. An excerpt from TechWorld: The tool is only for U.S.-based IT users. Users enter the state location of their data centre, followed by the numbers of PCs, servers,...
- Tags: Data Center, Power Consumption, Tool, Carbon Footprint, Data Center Efficiency, Data Centers, Productivity, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2007-12-23
- Hosting Provider Saves Up to 85% of Power Consumption and Improves Server Management by Using Virtuozzo
- ServInt specializes in full-service, high-bandwidth web hosting for business customers. ServInt also provides clients with high-speed Internet access through its Access Services group. ServInt built a successful dedicated hosting business, but wanted to reduce power consumption and better manage their servers. Virtuozzo provided a highly efficient solution for reducing power...
- Tags: Parallels Virtuozzo, Server Management, Power Consumption, ServInt, Virtualization, Servers, Hardware
- Case studies 2007-10-16
- ACP - The Truth About Power Consumption Starts Here
- For years, CIOs never had to worry about the cost of power - that financial cost was always buried somewhere in the facilities budget and companies rarely bothered to connect the dots between energy consumption and IT infrastructure. As the world shifted from propriety expensive mainframe technologies to lower cost...
- Tags: CIO, Data Center, Power Consumption, Data Centers, Mainframes, Storage, Servers, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2007-09-07
- Western Digital touts cost savings with 'green' hard disks
- The hard disk maker, Western Digital, announced plans for its GreenPower hard disk family with lower power consumption. Ranging in capacity from 320 GB to 1 TB, the hard disks lower power consumption could save up to $100,000 in energy costs for a data center with 10,000 such drives. ...
- Tags: Hard Drive, Power Consumption, Western Digital Corp., Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2007-07-24
- Power becoming a major issue as energy costs rise
- Residents of Maryland were recently challenged by their governor to cut their energy consumption by 15% over the next eight years as he pledged to reduce the use of energy by government offices and to increase the energy efficiency of government buildings. This and other energy conservation projects (a quick Google...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Power Management, Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Power Consumption, Gartner Inc., Energy Consumption, Energy Cost, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Andy Moon
- Blog posts 2007-07-05
- Tech giants going green
- Google and Intel have joined forces to form an alliance with the goal of reducing computer power consumption and ultimately greenhouse gas emissions. One of the group's recommendations is to replace inefficient power cables with beefier, more efficient cables that will cost $20 for a desktop or $30 for...
- Tags: Google Inc., Power Management, PC, Power Consumption, Greenhouse Gas, Texas Instruments Inc., Climate Savers Computing Initiative, Desktops, Hardware, Andy Moon
- Blog posts 2007-06-13
- AMD tries to outdo Intel with Puma: Great computing power for less Power Consumption
- According to a recent article by CNET Networks' News.com, Advanced Micro Devices (ADM) is "prepping an energy-efficient notebook chip, code-named Griffin, as well as a platform based around Griffin called Puma (similar to Intel's Centrino), that will likely allow AMD to better compete in the rapidly growing notebook...
- Tags: Power Consumption, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Computing, Intel Corp., Puma, Griffin, Notebooks, Semiconductors, Processors, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Components, Sonja Thompson
- Blog posts 2007-05-18
- Using Efficient Data Storage and Processing Techniques to Reduce Power Consumption
- The Dynamic strategy for achieving better efficiency is simple: reduce the number of machines, reduce the number of disks, and therefore reduce the network's energy consumption. There is no reason to suffer a performance reduction to achieve these results; the same tactics used to increase energy efficiency can actually improve...
- Tags: Technique, Data Storage, Performance, Storage, Power Consumption, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- White papers 2007-06-05
- Reducing data centre Power Consumption through efficient storage
- This whitepaper outlines how businesses can reduce power consumption by subtracting machines and disks from the power equation by using storage more efficiently. NetApp's approach to this lowers people costs, lowers support and service costs and improves network efficiency and performance.
- Tags: Network Appliance Inc., Power Consumption, NetApp, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2007-05-18
- Full-System Power Analysis and Modeling for Server Environments
- The increasing costs of power delivery and cooling, as well as the trend toward higher-density computer systems, have created a growing demand for better power management in server environments. Despite the increasing interest in this issue, little work has been done in quantitatively understanding power consumption trends and developing simple...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Power Consumption, Analysis, Modeling, Research & Development, Servers, Business Operations, Hardware
- White papers 2006-05-22
- Flushing Policies for NVCache Enabled Hard Disks
- One of the goals of upcoming hybrid hard disk is to reduce power consumption by adding a small amount of Non-Volatile flash memory (NVCache) to the drive itself. By using the NVCache to satisfy writes while the rotating media is spun-down, hard disk power consumption can be decreased by lengthing...
- Tags: Hard Drive, Media, Power Consumption, University Of California, NVCache, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
- White papers 2007-05-01
- Managing Data Center Power and Cooling
- Managing Data Center Power and Cooling Optimizing the overall power efficiency of the data center requires a comprehensive approach that focuses on technologies and strategies to minimize power consumption and maximize power efficiency at every level within the infrastructure, including CPU chips, power supplies, servers, storage devices,...
- Tags: Strategy, Data Center, Power Consumption, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2007-03-01
- Optimizing Power Consumption in Large Scale Storage Systems
- Data centers are the backend for a large number of services that are taken for granted today. A significant fraction of the total cost of ownership of these large-scale storage systems is the cost of keeping hundreds of thousands of disks spinning. This paper presents a simple idea that allows...
- Tags: Power Consumption, Cornell University, Storage System, Data Centers, Storage, Storage Management, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2007-04-10
- Power Consumption & Management: Windows Vista Versus Windows XP
- It is important to note that the financial and carbon-dioxide savings are not due to a PC running Windows Vista consuming less power per task than a PC running Windows XP (for example, typing up a document in Microsoft Word will consume very similar amounts of power). Instead, it is...
- Tags: PC, Power Consumption, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software
- White papers 2007-03-21
- Reducing Data Center Power Consumption Through Efficient Storage
- The NetApp approach to fighting rapidly growing power consumption is simple: subtract machines and disks from the power equation by using storage more efficiently. This strategy has many corollary benefits: it lowers complexity, lowers people costs, lowers support and service costs, and improves network efficiency and performance. The NetApp eight-point...
- Tags: Data Center, Power Consumption, NetApp, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2007-02-01
