data center power consumption in pictures

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  Five tools to prevent energy waste in the data center

• Point-to-point data center cable will cost you in the long run

  By Carrie Higbie, global director, Data Center Solutions and Services, Siemon | 01 March, 2012 04:42

  This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter's approach.

• Standard proposed for measuring data center efficiency

  By Nancy Gohring | 16 July, 2010 09:33

  A group of organizations led by The Green Grid has recommended a standard way for data centers to measure their Power Usage Effectiveness, aiming to bring consistency to the metric and make it easier for different facilities to compare their results.

• Green Grid to release new data center efficiency tools

  By James Niccolai | 05 February, 2010 09:10

  The Green Grid Consortium will release two free tools in the coming months to help companies measure and improve the energy efficiency of their data centers.

• Data centre managers concerned about EU green rules

  By Maxwell Cooter | 15 May, 2009 23:25

  Nearly three-quarters of European data centre managers are concerned about the impact that environmental regulation could have on data centres - although 60 percent of companies now have green data centre policies in place.

• Intel releases power management tool for data centers

  By Agam Shah | 01 May, 2009 11:16

  Intel on Thursday announced Data Center Manager software tool kit that can reduce the power drawn by servers in data centers by tapping into hardware resources.

• Scotland hotbed for green data centres

  By Computerworld UK staff | 04 December, 2008 08:20

  Scotland is to host two pioneering data centres, with plans being announced to build an eco-friendly cloud centre in Inverness, and the world's largest computing facility in Lockerbie.

• Gartner shares data center efficiency secrets

  By Tom Jowitt | 19 November, 2008 09:31

  Power consumption at data centers is once again in the spotlight, after analyst house Gartner came up with a list of best practices in the data center, designed to save electricity and improve cooling.

• Researchers show off advanced network control technology

  By Tim Greene | 30 October, 2008 13:41

  Researchers can adjust network infrastructure to boost bandwidth, optimize latency and save power using an experimental technology called OpenFlow.

• Five tools to prevent energy waste in the data center

  By Jon Brodkin | 23 April, 2009 15:02

  These products will make the data center more efficient by reducing power usage of existing hardware

• Sun, wind, algae: Future data-center power sources?

  By Ann Bednarz | 26 November, 2008 07:37

  The potential for wind power in the upper Midwest United States has led some to dub the region the "Saudi Arabia of wind." But tapping that potential isn't easy. In particular, the difficulty of integrating wind power into utility companies' transmission grids is hampering adoption.

• Tech's looming battle against rising energy costs

  By Betsy Harter | 10 September, 2008 08:59

  IT has gotten a bad rap when it comes to energy consumption. Walk into any datacenter, and you can almost feel the carbon emissions leaking into the atmosphere. However, research shows that the datacenter actually accounts for a very small percentage of a company's overall energy usage. And businesses are missing the other significant opportunities where they could cut energy usages -- and costs. Ironically, the same IT department that is reducing energy usage in the datacenter could lead the energy-savings initiatives across the enterprise.