http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog IT@Intel Fri, 09 Oct 2009 08:10:04 GMT Clearspace 2.5.9 (http://jivesoftware.com/products/clearspace/) 2009-10-09T08:10:04Z http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2009/10/09/installing-cash-machines-in-your-data-center At a recent event our CIO, Diane Bryant, talked about our continued plan to replace old servers in our Data Centers ( http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/44213/135/ ). Here is a summary of her key points: Not replaceing servers could have costed Intel intel_it it it@intel jimmy_wai roi server server_refresh nehalem data_center data_center_cooling data_center_power virtualization energy_efficiency intel case_study value cost_savings Fri, 09 Oct 2009 08:10:04 GMT jimmy.wai@intel.com http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2009/10/09/installing-cash-machines-in-your-data-center 2009-10-09T08:10:04Z 1 month, 2 weeks ago http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/comment/installing-cash-machines-in-your-data-center http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=12673 http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2008/06/13/the-ecotechnologies-great-debates-client-architecture-and-the-data-center I have just returned from the Intel sponsored Eco-Technology Great Debates where I was slotted into the topic of Thin vs. Thick Client Energy Efficiency. I had the opportunity to weigh in on the side of "Thick" clients as the most energy efficient. client client_architecture data_center data_center_cooling data_center_power green_it energy_efficiency Sat, 14 Jun 2008 01:16:34 GMT bradley.ellison@intel.com http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2008/06/13/the-ecotechnologies-great-debates-client-architecture-and-the-data-center 2008-06-14T01:16:34Z 1 year, 5 months ago 1 http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/comment/the-ecotechnologies-great-debates-client-architecture-and-the-data-center http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=11275 http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2008/04/01/what-if-you-invested-a-dollar-and-it-returned-10 If you invested one dollar and it returned 10 dollars, you'd think that was an excellent return wouldn't you? So what if you could get this same 10X return on energy? An industrial heat pump system called Heat Recovery where an additional 100 kW of power green data_center data_center_cooling heat_recovery cop data_center_power energy_efficiency energy Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:04:41 GMT doug.k.garday@intel.com http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2008/04/01/what-if-you-invested-a-dollar-and-it-returned-10 2008-04-01T17:04:41Z 1 year, 8 months ago 1 http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/comment/what-if-you-invested-a-dollar-and-it-returned-10 http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=11013 http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2008/01/18/green-data-centers-recycle-your-energy Another twist to energy conservation is energy reuse. It is possible to use the waste heat generated in a data center for non data center heating needs. This can be thought of as Energy Recycling, a method of reducing the impact of data centers on the data_center_cooling data_center_power datacenter green_data_centers Fri, 18 Jan 2008 23:12:30 GMT doug.k.garday@intel.com http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2008/01/18/green-data-centers-recycle-your-energy 2008-01-18T23:12:30Z 1 year, 10 months ago 8 http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/comment/green-data-centers-recycle-your-energy http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=10848 http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2007/10/08/data-center-toolbox-data-center-power-38-cooling-health-check-with-infra-red-gun Do Not Wait for an Alarm or Failure Give your Data Center a "Health Check" using a simple hand held Infra Red (IR) Gun . This tool can provide early warning for electrical breaker overload, CRAC unit calibration issues, server air supply ir_gun infra_red_gun data_center data_center_math data_center_toolbox data_center_cooling data_center_doctor data_center_intel data_center_power Mon, 08 Oct 2007 21:51:00 GMT john.a.musilli@intel.com http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2007/10/08/data-center-toolbox-data-center-power-38-cooling-health-check-with-infra-red-gun 2007-10-08T21:51:00Z 2 years, 1 month ago http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/comment/data-center-toolbox-data-center-power-38-cooling-health-check-with-infra-red-gun http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=10662 http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2007/10/01/data-center-toolbox-watts-per-square-foot-of-what Things You Need to Operate a Successful Data Center Infrastructure. This is number 2 in a series of Toolbox topics.   If you have spent more than 3 months in data center operations someone has asked, "What is your Watts per Square Foot (W/sq.ft) data_center data_center_cooling data_center_math data_center_toolbox data_center_doctor data_center_power data_center_intel Tue, 02 Oct 2007 05:09:00 GMT john.a.musilli@intel.com http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2007/10/01/data-center-toolbox-watts-per-square-foot-of-what 2007-10-02T05:09:00Z 2 years, 1 month ago 1 http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/comment/data-center-toolbox-watts-per-square-foot-of-what http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=10648 http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2007/09/27/data-center-toolbox-for-power-and-cooling Things you need to operate a successful Data Center infrastructure.   This is a first in a series of Toolbox topics others include "Watts per Sq.Ft.of What" "Use of a Hand Held IR (Infra Red) Gun for a Data Center Health Check" "Generic Data data_center_ power data_center_cooling data_center_math data_center_toolbox data_center_doc Thu, 27 Sep 2007 23:20:00 GMT john.a.musilli@intel.com http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/2007/09/27/data-center-toolbox-for-power-and-cooling 2007-09-27T23:20:00Z 2 years, 2 months ago 10 http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/comment/data-center-toolbox-for-power-and-cooling http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit/it/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=10643