http://blog.enterpriseitplanet.com/green/blog/ Eco-news and commentary on sustainable data centers, green gadgets and clean-tech innovations. en-us 2010-03-15T08:18:18-05:00 http://blog.enterpriseitplanet.com/green/blog/2010/03/monday-news-rou-44.html Monday News Roundup, March 15, 2010 Data center operator Equinix has been granted LEED certification for its 2009 retrofit of its SV2 International Business Exchange facility in Silicon Valley. Binghamton University professors believe that just-in-time provisioning of IT resources and... tlau 2010-03-15T08:18:18-05:00 http://blog.enterpriseitplanet.com/green/blog/2010/03/china-goes-into.html In spite of being the world's largest greenhouse polluter in absolute terms, China likes to point out that given its massive population, its greenhouse gas emissions aren't anywhere near the U.S. when broken down on a per person basis. That's... tlau 2010-03-15T07:54:21-05:00 http://blog.enterpriseitplanet.com/green/blog/2010/03/copenhagen-chie.html For reasons not officially announced, the U.N. official in charge of last year's Copenhagen climate change summit, Yvo de Boer, has quit to pursue a more lucrative career in academe and business consulting. The speculation surrounding his resignation is that... tlau 2010-03-11T09:27:30-05:00 http://blog.enterpriseitplanet.com/green/blog/2010/03/data-centers-fl.html I've previously blogged about Facebook's new data center in Oregon and the subsequent backlash from Greenpeace about Facebook's decision to purchase electricity from a utility that largely relies on coal for its electricity generation. This morning, the esteemed Wall Street... tlau 2010-03-09T10:15:59-05:00 http://blog.enterpriseitplanet.com/green/blog/2010/03/monday-news-rou-43.html Monday News Roundup, March 8 2010 Organizers and researchers of the Sixth Data Centers Europe 2010 conference announce that APC by Schneider Electric will be demonstrating how to provide energy while addressing energy efficiency legislation. Altruent Systems, a systems integration... tlau 2010-03-07T03:56:05-05:00 http://blog.enterpriseitplanet.com/green/blog/2010/03/what-if-theyre.html While traveling through Asia this week, I noticed an interesting TV commercial in my hotel room by NEC. The commercial features a boardroom scene with the CEO-type fretting about high IT energy costs, and one of his employees suggesting a... tlau 2010-03-07T03:40:36-05:00 http://blog.enterpriseitplanet.com/green/blog/2010/03/groups-move-tow.html Up until now, it's been quite a challenge to determine the veracity of claims by various companies about how green their data centers are. The recent Facebook flap, for example, where Facebook claimed it was building the world's greenest data... tlau 2010-03-03T19:48:19-05:00 http://blog.enterpriseitplanet.com/green/blog/2010/03/monday-news-rou-42.html Monday News Roundup, March 1, 2010 A myriad of federal and state tax credits are available for Green IT projects related to data centers, and they don't all have to be new constructions to qualify. The EPA is finalizing its... tlau 2010-03-01T06:00:00-05:00 http://blog.enterpriseitplanet.com/green/blog/2010/03/senators-ponder.html Over the weekend, while the Nobel prize-winning UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change appointed an independent committee to determine whether it needs to change its procedures to ensure scientific rigor and integrity, news broke that key Senators are considering a... tlau 2010-03-01T05:55:00-05:00 http://blog.enterpriseitplanet.com/green/blog/2010/02/will-the-bloom.html When I was a kid, I enjoyed watching Marty McFly traverse time in his DeLorean, powered by a flux capacitor. The flux capacitor was a magical device, the size of a coffee can, that generated the huge amount of power... tlau 2010-02-25T12:19:08-05:00 http://blog.enterpriseitplanet.com/green/blog/2010/02/epa-provides-ti.html The administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency, Lisa Jackson, has an unenviable job. She's under orders from the U.S. Supreme Court to treat carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases as an air pollutant under the Clean Air Act, but she's... tlau 2010-02-24T09:05:03-05:00 http://blog.enterpriseitplanet.com/green/blog/2010/02/facebook-gets-s.html Yesterday morning I blogged about Facebook's announcement that it was opening its first wholly-owned data center in Oregon. Facebook claims that the data center will be one of the most energy efficient in the world and will be LEED-certified. Besides... tlau 2010-02-22T13:44:15-05:00 http://blog.enterpriseitplanet.com/green/blog/2010/02/monday-news-rou-41.html Monday News Roundup, Feb. 22, 2010 Viridity Software and the Global Green Consulting Group announce a strategic partnership to leverage Viridity's software solution during customer engagements in order to provide them with a deeper understanding of their data center power... tlau 2010-02-22T09:14:11-05:00 http://blog.enterpriseitplanet.com/green/blog/2010/02/in-carbon-reduc.html The next time you place an order for a piece of IT tech or gear, you may want to consider slower shipping methods, especially if you are placing a large order from Asia. According to the NYT, by halving its... tlau 2010-02-19T10:18:19-05:00 http://blog.enterpriseitplanet.com/green/blog/2010/02/iceland-the-new.html As data centers grow and proliferate in both number and size, data center operators are increasingly running into roadblocks and ceilings caused by high rent or property acquisition costs, high electricity bills, and ever-increasing carbon footprints from running the cooling... tlau 2010-02-19T09:47:57-05:00