Facebook said yesterday that its data center site location policy “now states a preference for access to clean and renewable energy.” The announcement ended a long-running feud between the social network and the environmental group Greenpeace, which had targeted Facebook in a social media and PR campaign because the company’s two data centers in Oregon [...]

We wrap up our reader predictions on 2012 with a look at data center energy efficiency, and some of the strategies that we may see more of during the new year. In the data center business, energy efficiency is a business imperative. Soaring power usage has intensified the focus on the IT power bill and [...]

Google Trends to search the “green data center” topic. The Green Data Center topic has ridden the wave of overall data center coverage by the media. In 2006 is when I started researching the green data center topic, then in Oct 2007 is when I published an article in Microsoft’s TechNet magazine on green data [...]

While Google has been at the forefront of cutting edge green data center technology, with more experimental projects like its seawater-cooled data center, Google’s big message at its second data center efficiency summit: There’s no magic involved with greener data centers, and the tech is attainable by any IT manager. It’s an important thesis, as [...]

Storage networking in the data center is becoming increasing complex. IT directors/managers who have overall responsibility for server, networking and storage operations will benefit from attending this live webcast from IDC and Cisco on strategies for storage networking in a virtualized data center. As more virtualized servers generate larger quantities of data, access to storage [...]