Green Technology Insights

FYI, ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air-conditioning Engineers) has released new guidelines for temperature and hu...

The EPA is currently developing Tier 2 (second-phase) requirements for servers with the Energy Star ratings. Although the EPA is probably r...

Haiping Zhao has a great blog entry showcasing how Facebook has been able to improve the efficiency of their applications through the devel...

Previous posts have talked about power management in Linux, including information about the cpufreq module. IBM has published a good docum...

For nearly the last two years, I've been working with a colleague named Jamel Tayeb to develop a tool that could be used to help measure...

One of the clear trends in data centers is to improve data center efficiency by making greater use of HVAC economizer modes. For air-side ...

The PUE metric has become one of the most significant metrics for measuring the gross efficiency of a data center. As data center operators ...

At night, demand on the grid is lower, energy costs tend to be lower, and temperatures are also lower. These three factors make night an at...

Last week, I was talking with a friend from Sun who is involved with Sun's containerized data centers. He mentioned that since they help...

The PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness) metric from The Green Grid has become a widely referenced benchmark in the data center community, and j...