1
Monday, November 21, 2011
An intelligent approach to sustainability IT LEADERSHIP AWARDS How Eric Swanson tamed Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada's cooling bills for its growing data centre
Monday, August 09, 2010
HP says prefab data centre cuts costs in half The sheet-metal structures can be built in four to six months and are highly energy efficient, HP says. The company came up with the idea after talking with some of its large customers
Monday, July 19, 2010
Firm promises new take on containerized data centers I/o Data Centers will formally announce plans in two weeks to enter the containerized data center market. Find out more about the company
Friday, February 05, 2010
IBM will inch up heat in new data centre Huge facility will rely on outside air for cooling for more than half the year. The company expects it will be among the most effecient data centres in the world
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Sidebar: Make your data centre power efficient Want to extend the life of your data centre? Here's 12 ways to make the heart of IT operations a cooler place to be
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Data center density hits the wall There's a power crisis in the data centre: The latest servers use less power than previous models, but more can be crammed into a rack. Can the current infrastructure keep things cool?
Monday, July 06, 2009
Q&A with the man who helped raise server temperatures It's been a year since an engineering body said it was safe to raise the operating temperatures of servers and storage systems. Roger Schmidt, IBM fellow and one of the leaders of the initiative, discusses new temperature parameters and other issues involved in cooling data centres and reducing power usage
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
CoolIT buys bankrupt Delphi’s liquid cooling assets The Calgary-based company has bought Delphi’s liquid cooling division with big plans to eventually expand into the workstation and server cooling markets. But while the technology is a mainstay in high-end PC gaming hardware, will the technology cross over to businesses?
Tuesday, April 07, 2009
Bullet-point brief: Ian Collins, Cogeco Data Services The company formerly known as Toronto Hydro Telecom is aggressively targeting IT professionals with its managed services. The acting president explains the service provider’s strategy
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Simple plan for greener data centres Simply turning up the temperature in your data centre can cut down your energy bills, says storage network association chief 
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Free cooling: Hip or hype? With cooling systems eating up half your data centre dollars, it makes sense to slash your cooling costs any way you can. But can data centres use cold weather to their advantage? The case for, and against, free cooling
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Sun wants to build your data centre But at least one Gartner analyst says you might find more experienced consulting services elsewhere
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
Telus invests $33M in Quebec data centre project The Canadian incumbent is setting up a facility in Laval that will make extensive use of virtualization software while tapping into "free cooling" to manage energy use in its server fleet
Monday, August 18, 2008
U of T does the math on Big Blue supercomputer IBM estimates the system it will provide the school's SciNet consortium will be able to store 60 times more data than the Library of Congress Web archive. Then there are the energy efficiencies
Wednesday, July 02, 2008
Vice-president, Research, Gartner With its proximity to the U.S. market and hydroelectric facilities, Canada could build data centres and cool them using outside air. Find out what services cloud-based infrastructure could provide
Thursday, February 21, 2008
IBM experiments with 3D virtual data centre A Big Blue project allows IT managers to monitor a three-dimensional, real-time view of their computing resources, even if they are spread across the globe. Looks like Second Life, but this is no game
Monday, November 05, 2007
Wells Fargo heats up its cooling capabilities The bank's vice-president of technology information group facilities explains how he deployed a water-side 'economizer' that's expected to generate US$150,000 in free cooling this year
Thursday, December 07, 2006
Breaking Tech Silos, building business bridges Achieving IT operational excellence has been the goal of corporations all over the world. The global economy has required all companies to look hard at how IT manages their finances, customer expectations and services to enable them to use IT as a key business differentiator.
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
IBM unveils 5 IT services to better data centres To help customers cope with increasing power and cooling demands in their corporate data centers, IBM Tuesday unveiled five IT services aimed at creating and upgrading data centers that run more efficiently. 
Thursday, July 06, 2006
IT energy costs: the quiet budget killer Most IT organizations estimate their standard infrastructure expenses based on servers, telecommunications and desktops. Few consider the cost of the electricity required to power and cool the equipment. With today’s rising energy prices, companies can no longer ignore the cost of power. In some markets, the electricity bill for a server facility can run four to six times the cost of renting the building space.
Tuesday, June 21, 2005
Shuttle launches small form PC with dual-core system The Shuttle XPC Barebone SD31P, introduced Tuesday, features the Intel 945G Express chipset and is the first small form factor PC to support the Intel Corp.'s 64-bit technology, according to Taiwanese computer maker Shuttle Inc.
Thursday, March 21, 2002
Dell server pushes power to the edge With its latest servers, Dell Computer Corp. says it recognizes a shift in the way people buy servers these days, considering stability and total cost of ownership as well as performance.
1