SynapSense has raised $7 million in additional investment, the company said today, and will use the money to further develop its wireless energy sensors and expand beyond its core market in the data center sector.
Can methane power a data center? T-Systems is using biomethane and a fuel cell to provide power for a server room in a facility in Munich, Germany.
The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) is expanding its benchmarks to include power consumption, providing a way for data center managers to compare price, performance and energy efficiency.
HP (HPQ) will begin offering containerized power and cooling infrastructure from Active Power, Inc. (ACPW) with its POD data center container.
Architecture firm RTKL Associates Inc. has acquired Strategic Facilities Inc. (SFI) in a deal focused on the market for energy-efficient data centers.
Clustered Systems CEO Phil Hughes provides a demonstration of the company's fanless server cooling system to Dean Nelson of Data Center Pulse.
Bookmark alert: The Sacramento Bee has created an information graphic that provides a visual guide to free cooling concepts, illustrating how air flows through a data center.
The HVAC industry group ASHRAE has expanded its recommendations for ambient data center termperatures, raising its upper limit from 77 degrees to 80.6 degrees.
Sentilla Corp. has launched its Energy Manager, a system using a wireless sensor network to provide a detailed analysis of a data center's power use.