Cisco's Rob Aldrich provides a video overview of how the company's EnergyWise works, and discusses and Cisco's roadmap for the energy management technology.
Companies can no longer afford to ignore energy efficiency in their IT operations, according to Dr. Albert Esser of Dell, who spoke with Data Center Knowledge about the best ways to save energy and money in corporate data center operations.
At Tuesday's Green:Net 09 conference, Jonathan Koomey of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory shared his research on the electricity used by data centers and cloud computing.
Citigroup (C) says the expense of gaining LEED certification for its Austin, Texas data center was equivalent to about 1 percent of the project's total cost.
While Energy Star for Servers moves ahead, efforts to develop a similar facility-level Energy Star for Data Centers rating is being threatened by a lack of data.
The U.S. government's new Energy Star rating system for servers is scheduled to become effective May 1, providing companies with an easier way to compare the energy efficiency of servers from major vendors.
The Green Grid convenes its second Technical Forum today and will announce plans to develop a new metric for data center productivity and a "Data Center 2.0" design guide.
A coalition of data center industry groups has been developing a draft framework for an energy-efficiency standard to create a "LEED for Data Centers" standard for green facilities.