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Green IT means two different things. One is to make IT itself greener, and the other is to make other things greener. Let’s focus on the former. As everyone knows, IT consists of hardware—such as servers, storage equipment, and network gear—and software. Up until now, energy effici...
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As seen in Smart Grid, ICT technologies will have new market, CleanTech. The US ICT vendors have a lot of business opportunities in the Japanese market.
The Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) is a Japanese government organization for promoting mutual trade and investment between Japan and the...
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I met Jose Iglesias of Symantec when I hosted one of the sessions at the Green Software Unconference in August 2009.I talked to him briefly then and found out that his team was doing a lot in the green software area as well as in the overall sustainability work at Symantec. I finally had a chance to...
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As 2009 draws to a close, I would like to ponder each element in the title of this blog. The information sources are my blog posts and others’. I will talk about data center market trends in this blog and treat the rest of the subjects later.
Regulatory pressure on data centers
The U.S. House ...
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There are a lot of technologies and practices for greening data centers, but I am focusing on metering and measuring. I have talked to several companies that provide metering and measuring solutions. As with Tim Canning at Arch Rock, after bumping into Prajesh Bhattacharya a few times at data center...
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Grow a Greener Data Center by Douglas Alger
What It Is
In a nutshell
This book discusses energy efficiency and how to measure what “green” means in the context of a data center. Furthermore, it discusses current methods to make data centers greener from both the facilities and IT perspe...
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During my flight to Japan last week, I spent eight hours reading: Grow a Greener Data Center, by Douglas Alger of Cisco. The rest of the time I spent thinking about a hypothetical discussion about the energy efficiency of cloud computing.
Let’s assume that all the speakers are from local companie...
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I have covered renewable energy sources, namely wind, solar and geothermal in my previous blogs elsewhere.
Keizai Society Presented “Green Technology and Collaborative Business Opportunities” —Part 1
Wind Power for Data Centers
Data Centers Powered by Renewable Energy
Geothermal Energy for Gr...
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The Green Software Unconference is scheduled for August 19 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. Since this is an unconference, there is no set agenda or program. But its theme is clear: What is green software and what can we do with it?
As everyone knows, IT includes many elements, s...
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Blue Coat works with managed service provider partners to implement the underlying infrastructure that delivers managed services for multi-protocol label switching (MPLS). With the increasing shift to Web-enabled applications and SaaS solutions hosted in the cloud, greater application awareness, int...
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DataCenter Dynamics Conference
I attended a seminar by Digital Realty Trust (DRT) with Emerson/Liebert and a conference by Datacenter Dynamics last week.
I will focus on each subject more in detail in future blogs, but in this blog I would like to cover a set of overall trends. Those readers who f...
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Zen Kishimoto is our newest guest blogger. His posts will appear here weekly on Tek-Tips. Zen writes about data centers, green IT and emerging technology developments in Japan. In this post, he writes about a presentation he saw last week about solar energy and the issues in making it an effective e...
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