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By: Data is Money – and Money is Data | The Future of Targeting

Data is Money – and Money is Data | The Future of Targeting — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:37:49 +0000

[...] The string of examples could be extended almost at will. In the future, data will become a kind of fuel for the digital economy. Incidentally, the tremendous momentum that exists here can be observed by trying to analyse Google’s success in detail. While there are certainly a whole range of factors that play a role, including a clever bidding system, a couple of important design decisions and so on, the unbeatable strength of this provider is without doubt essentially attributable to the highly efficient generation and use of data – incidentally, not only on user behaviour and the preferences of Internet users, but in all areas of business (such as in the intelligent organisation of computing power, enabling computer centres to suddenly manage without cooling). [...]

By: The Green Data Center Strategies of Web Giants

The Green Data Center Strategies of Web Giants — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:01:57 +0000

[...] percent of its servers. For an extreme example of Google’s approach, look no further than its completely chiller-less facility in Belgium. During the week or so that temperatures rise above the safe zone, work is offloaded to [...]

By: Giovanni Tirloni » Blog Archive » Datacenter temperature and server failures

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 12:22:21 +0000

[...] external “free cooling” since the outside is already very cold. You can read about that here and here. The problem here in Brazil is that the outside environment is constantly above 30C [...]

By: Google’s Chiller-less Data Centers « Enterprise Strategy Group

Google’s Chiller-less Data Centers « Enterprise Strategy Group — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:00:55 +0000

[...] http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/07/15/googles-chiller-less-data-center/ [...]

By: Column: Ik wil wel, maar ik kan niet – R-win.com

Column: Ik wil wel, maar ik kan niet – R-win.com — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:13:07 +0000

[...] op IT-gebied is het Google dat de kar trekt, met groene innovaties in datacentra (België) en investeringen in geothermische en zonne-energie. Maar zijn zij de enige studenten op [...]

By: [#Cloud クラウドコンピューティング] Googleが1000万台のサーバを管理する事はできるツール、Spannerについて言及、機能は==> « Ippei Suzuki’s Blog

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:23:44 +0000

[...] could address regional differences in bandwidth costs and power costs. As we’ve previously noted, the ability to seamlessly shift workloads between data centers creates energy management [...]

By: Planning on a planetary scale « Son of GeekTalk

Planning on a planetary scale « Son of GeekTalk — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:33:33 +0000

[...] a planetary scale There will be someone that just yawns at these things, but I find planning on that scale nothing short of fascinating. Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)OVER AND OVER [...]

By: BBBBBBBBB

BBBBBBBBB — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 02:09:56 +0000

86 Deg.??? what is the Wet Bulb Temp? or Relative Humidity?

By: The World Condensed » Blog Archive » Google’s new data-center cools with weather prediction, not electricity

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:17:19 +0000

[...] Google’s Chiller-less Data Center [...]

By: links for 2009-08-20 « Cairene’s Nilometer

links for 2009-08-20 « Cairene’s Nilometer — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 11:20:38 +0000

[...] Google’s Chiller-less Data Center « Data Center Knowledge "Google (GOOG) has begun operating a data center in Belgium that has no chillers to support its cooling systems, a strategy that will improve its energy efficiency while making local weather forecasting a larger factor in its data center management. [..]So what happens if the weather gets hot? On those days, Google says it will turn off equipment as needed in Belgium and shift computing load to other data centers. This approach is made possible by the scope of the company’s global network of data centers, which provide the ability to shift an entire data center’s workload to other facilities. [..]The ability to seamlessly shift workloads between data centers also creates intriguing long-term energy management possibilities, including a “follow the moon” strategy which takes advantage of lower costs for power and cooling during overnight hours. In this scenario, virtualized workloads are shifted across data centers in different time zones to capture savings from off-peak utility rates." (tags: google energy green conservation technology) [...]