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Green Computing is the study and practice of using computing resources efficiently. Typically, green computing systems or products take into account the so-called triple bottom line of people, planet, profit. This differs somewhat from traditional or standard business practices that focus mainly on the economic viability of a computing solution. These focuses are similar to those of green chemistry; reduction of the use of hazardous materials such as lead at the manufacturing and recycling stages, maximized energy efficiency during the product's lifetime, and recyclability or biodegradability of both a defunct product and of any factory waste. |
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Reducing IT Energy Drain for Business Gain |
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The crisis of mass power consumption in the corporate data center has come to a head. Power required to run data centers in the U.S. is estimated to be as much as that produced by five power plants in a year. Energy expenditures and requirements have doubled in the last five years, and computer disposal is the fastest growing type of waste in the world, according to top Stanford researchers and Greenpeace.
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The Green Side of BlueArc |
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Using a custom-built NAS server and hardware-accelerated file system, BlueArc is able to deliver both high performance and industry leading energy efficiency.
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Tackle the Challenges of Virtualization Management |
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This paper examines the advantages of virtualization and the issues that could inhibit its widespread adoption. It also discusses the implications of virtualization with respect to service management processes and describes the criteria that service management solutions must meet to be truly 'virtualization enabled.'
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Access Control, Energy and the Environment |
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Purchase price alone is not an accurate measure as to the true costs of a system. When evaluating the products offered by different vendors, the purchaser should take into consideration: purchase cost of equipment and software; cost of installing the infrastructure including data cable and mains power outlet and power cables; cost of installation; cost of maintenance; and more.
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Case Study: TG Allison |
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Automating the milking process has resulted in a vast increase in demand for the software that T G Allison supplies and manages. T G Allison wanted to find an easier way to deliver top-class customer service without a site visit each time something went wrong. And in the process, they hoped to reduce the company’s carbon emissions by spending less time on the road.
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Is your data-center ready for virtualization? |
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Virtualization can deliver dramatic benefits for data centers, but it can also stress the underlying support infrastructure. Power and cooling systems—which may have been quite sufficient for pre-virtualization needs—could easily become inadequate when data center performance patterns are radically altered. This paper describes some of power challenges related to virtualization—and the readily available technologies to address them.
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Lean, Green and Sustainable IT |
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The terms "Green IT" and "Lean IT" and "Sustainable IT" are used prolifically these days and often inter-changeably. The three areas are the focus of exciting innovation the IT industry these days are significantly impacting IT operations departments both large and small and are described below. Lean IT focuses on reducing hardware, green IT builds on lean IT to reduce consumption and sustainable IT builds on green IT to reduce impact on economy, society and the environment.
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Renewable Energy Startup Goes Lean and Green with Shorty |
| By : HP |
Published Date: Jul 08, 2009 |
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Cascade Grain Products, a new $113.4 million gallon ethanol plant in Clatskanie, Oregon, was in need of an IT infrastructure that matched its green business mission. The IT management team chose to equip the new plant with an expandable and energy-efficient server and storage infrastructure consisting of an all-in-one blade server and storage solution. Read this case study to learn how Cascade Grain Products achieved a planet- and bottom line-friendly six-figure cost avoidance on power, cooling and construction costs and $50,000 annual saving in onsite administration costs.
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Data Center Thermal Zone Mapping |
| By : HP |
Published Date: Jul 29, 2008 |
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This white paper describes an energy audit tool which can lead to significant decreases in the costs of running a data center. Thermal Zone Mapping (TZM) is a visualization tool developed to present in graphical format high level thermal metrics developed by HP and targeted for use as part of the HP Data Center Thermal Assessment service. This tool uses data generated from computer models of the data center and generates metrics, which are then post-processed and visualized in the three-dimensional data center space.
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Flash Demo: Power and Cooling |
| By : HP |
Published Date: Jul 29, 2008 |
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"Power and Cooling", a video presentation, uses vivid computer modeling to illustrate why traditional trial-and-error approaches are inadequate for effective thermal management . Data center cooling costs now account for half of all power-related outlays. And they continue to soar. But cutting these costs - while at the same time improving availability and capacity - is achievable. The trick is knowing how.
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Assessments: Ammunition for Facts-Based Decision Making (Podcast Transcription) |
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Data centers are large, important investments that when properly designed, built and operated, are an integral part of the business strategy driving the success of any enterprise, yet the central focus of organizations is often the acquisition and deployment of the IT architecture equipment and systems, with little thought given to the structure and space in which it is to be housed, serviced and maintained. This invariably leads to facility infrastructure problems, such as thermal hot spots, lack of UPS, rack power, lack of redundancy, system overloading and other issues that threaten or prevent the realization of the return on the investment in the IT systems.
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The Multi-tiered Hybrid Data Center |
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To accommodate increasingly dense technology environments, increasingly critical business applications, and increasingly stringent service level demands, data centers are typically engineered to deliver the highest-affordable availability levels facility-wide. Within this monolithic design approach, the same levels of mechanical, electrical, and IT infrastructure are installed to support systems and applications regardless of their criticality or business risk if unplanned downtime occurs. Typically, high redundancy designs are deployed in order to provide for all eventualities. The result, in many instances, is to unnecessarily drive up both upfront construction or retro-fitting costs and ongoing operating expenses.
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Assessments: Ammunition for Facts-Based Decision Making |
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Data centers are large, important investments that, when properly designed, built, and operated, are an integral part of the business strategy driving the success of any enterprise. Yet the central focus of organizations is often the acquisition and deployment of the IT architecture equipment and systems with little thought given to the structure and space in which it is to be housed, serviced, and maintained. This invariably leads to facility infrastructure problems such as thermal “hot spots”, lack of UPS (uninterruptible power supply) rack power, lack of redundancy, system overloading and other issues that threaten or prevent the realization of the return on the investment in the IT systems.
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Energy Efficiency in the Data Center Exploring the Inherent compatibility of Green Initiatives |
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Today's IT executives are not only expected to create and maintain high-availability IT environments, but they are also expected to implement green initiatives to satisfy customers, analysts, and government agencies that are worried about the impact of modern, energy-thirsty data centers on the environment. Is such a dual mandate reasonable? Can companies be expected to maintain service levels and reduce their carbon footprints at the same time? The White Paper offers a description of the different types of services available to improved energy efficiency data center design and a prescription for successful implementation.
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The New Reality of Balance and Optimization in Planning Green Data Centers |
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The recent release of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) study on data center energy efficiency is adding fuel to the fire in the research and development of new ways to reduce energy use in centers. The findings, summarized on the EPA website, are staggering: Data centers consumed about 60 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) in 2006, roughly 1.5 percent of total US electricity consumption -Energy consumption of servers and data centers has doubled in the past five years and is expected to almost double again in the next five years to more than 100 billion kWh, costing about $7.4 billion annually.
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Measuring the Business Value of Green Datacenters |
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Today, policy and business leaders are reaching a consensus that industry must address rising greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Leading enterprises are now turning to the practical challenge of determining how, how much, and at what cost to reduce emissions.
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HP Technology Guide for Scalable Business Solutions |
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Today's world demands an IT environment that will adapt and scale as your business grows. Scale out architecture helps by allowing you to add additional building blocks whenever your business requires more capacity. However, these industry standard building blocks must have the best price performance and the best energy performance while being flexible, easy to manage, and quick to deploy.
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Measuring the Business Value of Green Datacenters |
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Today, policy and business leaders are reaching a consensus that industry must address rising greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Leading enterprises are now turning to the practical challenge of determining how, how much, and at what cost to reduce emissions.
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HP Technology Guide for Scalable Business Solutions |
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Today's world demands an IT environment that will adapt and scale as your business grows. Scale out architecture helps by allowing you to add additional building blocks whenever your business requires more capacity. However, these industry standard building blocks must have the best price performance and the best energy performance while being flexible, easy to manage, and quick to deploy.
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