Facility Design: Feature
Toward an Energy-Efficient, High-Performance Datacenter
A team of researchers from the University of Florida has developed an innovative power management approach that enables high performance low-overhead datacenter operation on pure renewable energy sources.Read more...
Telcos to Slash Energy Use 90 Percent by 2020
Launched three years ago, GreenTouch is a global research consortium dedicated to dramatically improving the energy efficiency of data and communications networks. Despite exponentially-increasing network traffic, the group asserts that it is possible to reduce energy consumption 90 percent by 2020. Read more...
A Datacenter Without Walls
When you're running the largest datacenters in the world, low-carbon cooling techniques take on new significance. Microsoft is one of the IT giant's leading the datacenter optimization charge. Over the years the company has transitioned from heavy reliance on air-conditioning to more carbon-friendly cooling techniques, like air-side economization.Read more...
Facility Design: News in Brief
Open Compute Project Tackles the Network
Open Compute Project president says something was missing, and that something was the connecting layer. Read more...
Facility Design: Off the Wire
Modular Datacenter Market Worth $40.41 Billion by 2018
According to a new market research report published by MarketsandMarkets, the Modular Data Centers Market is expected to reach $40.41 billion by 2018 at a CAGR of 37.41% from 2013 to 2018.Read more...
Expert to Discuss the Hidden Cost of Lost Datacenter Capacity at Uptime Institute Symposium
Future Facilities' Sherman Ikemoto will discuss the long-term costs of IT deployment without proper planning and how integrating IT and facilities operations can increase the utilization of critical datacenter resources.Read more...
Clustered Systems Installs Efficient 100kW Rack at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Clustered Systems recently completed the installation of its first "hyper efficient" computing system at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. Initial testing indicates that an average PUE of 1.07 can be expected, which resets the bar on server energy efficiency.Read more...
IO Expands APAC Team to Keep Pace with Data Center 2.0 Demand
IO announced two additions to the Company's Asia-Pacific (APAC) operations.Read more...
Verne Global Recognized with 2013 IDG InfoWorld Green 15 Award
Verne Global has been recognized with the 2013 IDG InfoWorld Green 15 Award for the world's first dual-sourced, 100% renewable power data center.Read more...
Applied Math Modeling Announces CoolSim 4.1
Applied Math Modeling announced the availability of CoolSim 4.1 – the next revision of the company’s popular modeling software. Read more...
