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Archive for Green Computing Category

Dog Days Again…

It’s the dog days of summer again and here at Egenera we continue to help our customers best manage whatever comes their way. Do you have a sound DR strategy for your data center to deal with brownouts (for example)?  It’s worth looking at again. Last year the top of the Empire State Bldg had [...] Read More

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Going Dark (data center dark that is)

A “darkened” or “dark” data center has been designed to eliminate the need for human intervention so that system admins and managers can deal with mission critical development and process improvement projects vs. spending all their time fighting fires. These “lights out” data center initiatives have allowed managers to achieve the following: Lower TCO – [...] Read More

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Going Data Center Green in 2007

In 2005, “green” data centers were only for the most bleeding edge IT shops that had their current energy requirements under control and could invest in forward thinking initiatives. Well for the rest of us, our number just came up…it’s 2007 and it’s time to go green! We can all agree: server sprawl is a [...] Read More

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Too hot to handle? Power and cooling is always a hot potato

Even though it is the middle of winter (at least in North America) and oil prices are at a 12-month low, people are still talking about energy. The new Congress announced it will focus on energy independence and sources of alternative energy – with goals of reducing the cost and environmental impact of producing energy. [...] Read More

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