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Power becoming a major issue as energy costs rise: What energy reduction techniques are you using?Late last year, one of our VPs asked us to look into a utility that claimed to be able to reduce energy costs (for the low site-licensed cost of $15,000). We ended up finding a free solution put out by the EPA that manages...; Tags: Andy Moon, energy cost; Discussion threads 2007-07-05
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.Â 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
Five Strategies for Cutting Data Center Energy Costs Through Enhanced Cooling Efficiency: As electricity prices and IT power consumption continue to rise, IT-related energy costs are getting increased scrutiny. Cooling accounts for approximately 37 percent of electricity usage within a well-designed data center and, in many cases, represents a significant opportunity to reduce IT energy costs. This paper presents five strategies for...; Tags: Data Center, Energy Cost, Data Centers, Storage, Strategy, Hardware, Data Management, Management; White papers 2007-04-17
Cut energy costs with these display device strategies: You can reduce energy costs for your organization by using display devices in your computer room or data center more efficiently and by using more efficient devices. Here are a few easy-to-implement practices to cut your energy costs, along with recommendations for purchasing equipment that will require less energy to...; Tags: Rick Vanover, computer room, LCD, strategy; Technical articles 2004-05-07
Calculate your energy savings with the IBM Power Configurator tool: Energy costs are top of mind in IT today. In fact, it is estimated that each year companies pay a significant part of the purchase price of a system on powering, cooling and housing that system. Discover the energy savings IBM System x and BladeCenter servers can...; Tags: Tool, IBM Corp., Energy Cost, Blade Servers, Productivity, Servers, Hardware; Resource centers 2008-01-27

Reducing IT Energy Costs: The Mid-size & Small Business Approach: As total costs of small and mid-sized businesses increase, growing companies look ever closely at how their IT needs affect energy costs. The IBM case studies and survey results herein discuss opportunities to reduce IT energy costs, save money and devise IT investment strategies. Read them and learn how you...; Tags: Information Technology, IBM Corp., Energy Cost, Strategy, Management; White papers 2008-01-01

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Energy Lens (exe): To help businesses to save energy, Energy Lens makes it easy to analyze energy data in Excel. Businesses can save energy by using Energy Lens to identify waste and to monitor energy performance. By taking advantage of the interval energy data that's readily available to most businesses (e.g. half-hourly data,...; Tags: Data Analysis, Performance, BizEE Software, Performance Management, Databases, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management; Software downloads 2008-01-25
Characterizing System Level Energy Consumption in Mobile Computing Platforms: This paper approaches energy consumption characterization in mobile computing platforms by assessing energy consumption of "Basic" application-level tasks, such as processing, input/output (disk, display, etc.), communication transmission and reception over the network, and combinations thereof. Besides providing information on the energy consumption behavior of typical tasks performed by mobile computers,...; Tags: Power Management, Mobile, Mobile Computing, Characterization, Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, Wireless, Marketing, Hardware; White papers 2005-04-28
Home Energy Analysis System (exe): The Home Energy Analysis System enables you to record electricity, gas and water bills. Also enter your own meter readings to produce a detailed database. A range of graphs is produced showing cost, consumption and CO2 emissions by week, month and year. The effect of alternative energy sources can be...; Tags: Alternative Energy, Analysis, Energy, Home Energy Analysis System; Software downloads 2007-06-11
Access Control, Energy and the Environment: Purchase price alone is not an accurate measure as to the true costs of a system. When evaluating the products offered by different vendors, the purchaser should take into consideration: purchase cost of equipment and software; cost of installing the infrastructure including data cable and mains power outlet and power...; Tags: Cost, Environment, Access Control, Borer Data Systems, Cable, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking; White papers 2007-10-01
An Opcode Level Energy Consumption Model for a Java Virtual Machine: This paper establishes a general framework for estimating the energy consumption of an embedded Java Virtual Machine JVM. The paper has designed a number of experiments to find the constant overhead of the Virtual Machine and establish an energy consumption cost for individual Java Opcodes. The results show that there...; Tags: JVM, Energy Consumption, Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development; White papers
JouleSort: A Balanced Energy-Efficiency Benchmark: The energy efficiency of computer systems is an important concern in a variety of contexts. In data centers, reducing energy use improves operating cost, scalability, reliability, and other factors. For mobile devices, energy consumption directly affects functionality and usability. The paper proposes and motivates JouleSort, an external sort benchmark, for...; Tags: Data Center, Association For Computing Machinery, Data Centers, Productivity, Storage, Hardware, Data Management; White papers 2007-06-14
Mitigating the Flooding Waves Problem in Energy-Efficient Routing for MANETs: In wireless Mobile Adhoc NETworks MANETs channel and energy capacities are scarce resources, a lot of energy-efficient routing protocols for MANETs have been previously proposed to take into consideration the nodes' residual energies when establishing routes between source-destination pairs. This paper is not trying to introduce a new routing algorithm...; Tags: Problem, University Of Pittsburgh, Engineering; White papers 2005-11-19
Conserving Energy in Conventional Disk Based RAID Systems: Energy-efficiency is becoming increasingly important for storage systems to reduce the Total Cost of Ownership TCO. This paper proposes an energy saving policy named eRAID for conventional disk based RAID-1 systems using redundancy. In particular, a dynamic performance control scheme is developed with the help of a performance predictor based...; Tags: Rice University, Disk, Performance, Mirroring, RAID, Performance Management, Roi/Tco, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Finance, Managerial Accounting; White papers 2007-03-20
Industrial Energy Management: Doing More With Less: The cost of doing business is not getting any cheaper, especially for energy-intensive industrial businesses. To remain competitive in an environment of ever-increasing operational costs, large processing plants and factories are finding new ways to do more with less. Whether processing petroleum or manufacturing automobiles, the goal is the same:...; Tags: Manufacturing; Case studies
The Critical Role of Advanced Metering Technology in Optimizing Energy Delivery and Efficiency: Relative to other vital infrastructure systems that have evolved to meet new challenges and requirements in recent years - transportation, banking and finance, telecommunications, law enforcement and emergency services, even national defense - the nation's energy delivery system has not adopted and made use of advanced data collection, data management...; Tags: Itron, Data Management, Transportation, Banking, Telephony, Storage, Financial Services, Networking, Hardware; White papers 2005-05-31
Managing Energy Consumption Costs in Desktop PCs and LAN Switches With Proxying, Split TCP Connections, and Scaling of Link Speed: A growing expense and impact of the Internet is its energy use. Current estimates are that 2% of electricity consumption in the USA goes to powering the Internet. In Germany it is estimated that energy consumption by IT equipment will be between 2% and 5% in 2010. The 2% estimate...; Tags: Desktop, LAN, PC, Information Technology, TCP, Energy, Desktop Computer, Internet, Tcp/Ip, Strategy, Networking, Management; White papers 2005-08-25
Nortel Network Case Study: Suncor Energy Inc.: Suncor Energy Inc. is a rapidly growing $11 billion integrated energy company headquartered in Alberta, Canada. With a multi-billion dollar operational expansion project in progress, Suncor Energy needed to cost effectively and seamlessly upgrade their network infrastructure to address advanced application demands and skyrocketing bandwidth requirements. Nortel put in place...; Tags: Network, Nortel Networks Corp., Suncor Energy Inc., Telephony, Networking, VOIP, Telecommunications; Case studies 2007-01-01
Energy-Efficient Medium Access Control: Medium access protocols for wireless sensor networks trade off performance (latency, throughput, and fairness) for cost energy consumption. They do so by turning off the radio for significant amounts of time reducing the energy wasted by idle listening, which dominates the cost of typical WLAN-based MAC protocols. Other sources of...; Tags: Protocol, Wi-Fi, Wireless LANs, LANs, Wireless, Networking; White papers
Global Warning: Optimization Strategies to Solve the IT Energy Crisis: As business demand for server capacity continues to grow, the reality that energy is a finite and costly resource becomes apparent. With spiraling energy costs, energy constraints have become a critical factor in IT profitability and agility. In this webinar, speakers from Forrester Research and BMC® Software explore the scope...; Tags: Strategy, BMC Software Inc., Data Center, Optimization, Information Technology, Data Centers, It Management, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, It service Management; Webcasts 2007-01-11

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