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A few months ago, WWF published a HP-supported white paper called ‘From Green IT to Greening with IT’. The paper is directed mainly at policy makers and aims to explore the role of IT in business and government strategies for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. It particularly looks...
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By Mark Lackey, Product Manager, Insight Control power management HP is introducing Data Center Power Control, the newest power management feature of Insight Control. I want to share a cool story about how this product was invented after a nearly catastrophic event at an HP site. We used our experience...
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By Brandon Fears Product Manager, HP Data Center Environmental Edge Part of the focus of the HP Data Center Smart Grid is not only monitoring / managing power at the IT level, but also visualizing and optimizing the power and cooling infrastructure. This is where the newest version of the HP Data Center...
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By: Doug Oathout, VP of Green IT Enterprise Storage and Servers Time to connect datacenter IT with facilities and unleash their trapped energy capacity IT organizations have been building infrastructure in silos for twenty years; the network administrator builds the interconnects, the storage administrator...
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Here are some more analytics and data visualizations, this time on using outside air to cool a data center. When using this type of strategy, the hourly outside temperature and humidity conditions will drive the overall strategy and control of the HVAC systems. This is why it is critical to develop a...
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Energy Efficient Technology Blog
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WilliamKosik
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10-30-2009
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Filed under: energy, environment, data center, Green, Life Cycle Analysis, energy efficiency, Data Center Strategy, Mission Critical, Mission Critical Space, Data Centers Strategy, Alternative Energy, Data centers, facilities, data visualiztion, energy efficiency analytics
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The FEDERAL LEADERSHIP IN ENVIRONMENTAL, ENERGY,AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE presidential order went into effect on October 5, 2009. The main goal of the order is to "to establish an integrated strategy towards sustainability in the Federal Government and to make reduction of greenhouse gas emissions...
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Energy Efficient Technology Blog
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WilliamKosik
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10-30-2009
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Filed under: energy, environment, data center, Life Cycle Analysis, energy efficiency, Data Center Strategy, Mission Critical, Mission Critical Space, Data Centers Strategy, Alternative Energy, Data centers, facilities, data visualiztion, energy efficiency analytics
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Recently, we were running to power and performance benchmarks on a server in our lab. We were using HP-UX 11i v3, update 5 [http://h71028.www7.hp.com/enterprise/w1/en/os/hpux11i-overview.html] and we were testing the impact of some of the power management features on the system. The power management...
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Mission Critical Computing Blog
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jacob.van-ewyk@hp.com
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10-21-2009
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Filed under: Integrity, green, power, servers, mission critical servers, HP Integrity, high-end, HP-UX 11i, OS, BCS, HP-UX, UNIX, HP Superdome, Green Idle, Energy Efficiency, Green Active
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I came back from my holidays last week. Normally your first day back after a two weeks away is a little bit ‘tough’, but this time it was brightened up by this HP announcement: HP sets new energy reduction goals . Having achieved our goal of reducing combined energy consumption and associated...
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On September 22, 2009, the EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson signed the rule on a new greenhouse gas emission reporting program which is a pre-cursor to potential carbon taxing policy. The reporting is for the top carbon emitters in the U.S, primarily from the manufacturing sector where carbon emissions...
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Energy Efficient Technology Blog
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WilliamKosik
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09-24-2009
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Filed under: energy, environment, data center, Green, Life Cycle Analysis, energy efficiency, Data Center Strategy, Mission Critical, Mission Critical Space, Data Centers Strategy, Alternative Energy, Data centers, facilities, data visualiztion
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If you follow news related to the development of renewable energy technology, you’ll know that the United States is not keeping pace with other countries in research and development. And it is not just European countries but India and China as well. I don’t want to stray into the political...
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For some weird reason, I have always been intrigued with charts, maps, graphs, etc. Anything that tells a story or conveys information without using a lot of words and numbers attracts my attention. I guess it is the geeky engineer in me. So I have turned this interest into something that actually is...
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I am an avid F1 fan. For those of you who aren’t familiar with F1, it is THE most widely watched international sport and is a multi-billion dollar industry. The cars are the pinnacle of engineering technology and cost upwards of US$20MM. The cars measure fuel efficiency by how many laps they can...
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Current economic, environmental and energy constraints often do not make it possible to add additional servers in the data center to align with the demands of the business. As a result, companies are looking to consolidate workloads on fewer servers to reclaim the underutilized capacity, lower the total...
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Reality Check: Server Insights
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anand.akela@hp.com
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08-30-2009
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Filed under: datacenter, VMWare, virtualization, x86, AMD, performance, Istanbul, HP ProLiant G6 servers, power savings, energy efficiency, VMworld, DL785 G6, DL785
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In April, SPEC updated their server power benchmark to allow results for blade servers, and now HP has released its first blade result. HP just published a SPECpower_ssj2008 result for the HP BL280c G6 server blade . It's the top score for a blade. I talked to Kari Kelley, the BL280c product manager...
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Need to estimate power consumption and proper selection of components? Check out the HP Power Advisor . Other features are also provided including a condensed bill of materials, a cost of owner ship calculator, and a power report. Reduce power consumption with ProLiant right-size power supplies. In HP’s...