Madhusudan Iyengar and Roger Schmidt IBM, Poughkeepsie, New York Many of our day-to-day activities, including Internet searches, handheld electronics usage, automated cash withdrawal, and online hotel and airline reservations, require the use of remote databases…read more
Energy Consumption of Information Technology Data Centers
December 6th, 2010
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iPhone App for Data Center Managers
November 22nd, 2010
Raritan’s Power IQ® iPhone app helps data center and lab managers “on the go” quickly view real-time power load (watts and amps) and perform secure remote power control on any server or rack power distribution…read more
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Feds Could Save $1 Trillion with Smarter Tech and Practices
October 11th, 2010
The federal government could save as much as a cool $1 trillion by 2020 by embracing several IT efforts such as virtualization and cloud computing, according to newly released report from the Technology CEO Council.…read more
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Microfluidic Polymer Cooling System Recognized
October 11th, 2010
Finalists were announced last night for the Regional Cleantech Open Business Competition, which highlighted the broad scope of clean technologies and competencies of the Pacific Northwest. Winners included a water purification system, materials for cooling…read more
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Purdue Moves Supercomputer to Portable Data Center
September 27th, 2010
Purdue University is moving its Steele supercomputing cluster to a portable, self-contained, modular computer center. Companies such as Amazon, Google and Microsoft make significant use of quickly deployed, energy-efficient containerized data centers. But Purdue is…read more
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product & industry news
September 13th, 2010
Ultra-Thin Waterproof Piezoelectric Speaker Murata Electronics North America recently launched an ultra-thin waterproof piezoelectric speaker. With a thickness of only 0.9mm, this 19.5mm x 14.1mm speaker enables greater design freedom for the rapidly growing and…read more
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Eaton Brings On-board Enclosure to Data Centers
August 10th, 2010
Industrial conglomerate Eaton Corp has agreed to buy Wright Line Holding Inc., a privately held maker of enclosures and racks for electronics for data centers, Eaton said on Wednesday. Terms were not disclosed. Wright Line…read more
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Six Cool Innovations for the Data Center
August 10th, 2010
Computing industry veteran John Brandon explains six new products and technologies that promise to solve real data centre problems or are already working to make enterprise operations run more smoothly. They include fiber optics with…read more
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Product & Industry News
July 26th, 2010
Mitsubishi Adds LED-Based Cube to Display Wall Line-up Mitsubishi Digital Electronics America’s Presentation Products Division has expanded its SeventySeries display wall line with the SeventySeries: LED, an LED-based, rear-projection display wall cube designed specifically for…read more
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What’s Happening
July 26th, 2010
Nanotech Yields Major Advance in Heat Transfer, Cooling Technologies Researchers at Oregon State University and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have discovered a new way to apply nanostructure coatings to make heat transfer far more…read more
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New CP3000NV UPS Series (60-160 kVA)
July 12th, 2010
Targeting medium-sized data centers, light industrial systems, and other mid-range power protection applications, Chloride introduces its CP3000NV series of three-phase UPS with module ratings from 60 kVA to 160 kVA. In line with Chloride’s green…read more
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IRS Data Center Cooling Could Save $3 Million
June 21st, 2010
The Internal Revenue Service could save more than $3 million over four years by implementing better cooling techniques in two of its data centers, according to an auditor’s report released last month. IRS data centers…read more
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Data Centers Play Key Role in Transferring Medical Information
June 21st, 2010
The issue of building new data centers and retrofitting or expansion of older ones to handle more sophisticated and increased amounts of medical data has become more critical as the Obama administration has announced that $975…read more
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Industry Analyst Names Firm a ‘Cool Vendor’
June 7th, 2010
iWatt Inc., a developer of energy-efficient digital power supply control integrated circuits (ICs), recently was recognized in Gartner’s “Cool Vendors in Semiconductors” report. The company advances “digital power management” with its patented Adaptive Digital Control…read more
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