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Facebook and ebay’s data centers are now vastly more transparent

Facebook and ebay’s data centers are now vastly more transparent

By Tom Raftery on April 29, 2013

Facebook announced at the end of last week new way to report PUE and WUE for its datacenters. This comes hot on the heels of ebay’s announcement of its Digital Service Efficiency dashboard – a single-screen reporting the cost, performance and environmental impact of customer buy and sell transactions on ebay. These dashboards are a […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Amazon, CUE, datacenter, dse, eBay, Facebook, greenqloud, ibm, pue, sap, WUE

The Switch SuperNAP data centre – one of the most impressive I’ve been in

The Switch SuperNAP data centre – one of the most impressive I’ve been in

By Tom Raftery on March 12, 2012

If you were going to build one of the world’s largest data centre’s you wouldn’t intuitively site it in the middle of the Nevada desert but that’s where Switch sited their SuperNAPs campus. I went on a tour of the data centre recently when in Las Vegas for IBM’s Pulse 2012 event. The data centre […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged data center, data centre, datacenter, supernap, switch

Facebook hires Google’s former Green Energy Czar Bill Weihl, and increases its commitment to renewables

Facebook hires Google’s former Green Energy Czar Bill Weihl, and increases its commitment to renewables

By Tom Raftery on December 20, 2011

Google has had an impressive record in renewable energy. They invested over $850m dollars in renewable energy projects to do with geothermal, solar and wind energy. They entered into 20 year power purchase agreements with wind farm producers guaranteeing to buy their energy at an agreed price for twenty years giving the wind farms an […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged bill weihl, coal, datacenter, Energy, Facebook, google, green energy, renewables, unfriend coal

Data Center War Stories talks to SAP’s Jürgen Burkhardt

Data Center War Stories talks to SAP’s Jürgen Burkhardt

By Tom Raftery on November 22, 2011

And we’re back this week with the second installment in our Data Center War Stories series (sponsored by Sentilla). This second episode in the series is with Jürgen Burkhardt, Senior Director of Data Center Operations, at SAP‘s HQ in Walldorf, Germany. I love his reference to “the purple server” (watch the video, or see the […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged asset management, cooling capacity, corporate cloud, data center war stories, datacenter, Private Cloud, sap, servers, virtual servers, virtualization

FaceBook open sources building an energy efficient data center

FaceBook open sources building an energy efficient data center

By Tom Raftery on April 7, 2011

Back in 2006 I was the co-founder of a Data Centre in Cork called Cork Internet eXchange. We decided, when building it out, that we would design and build it as a hyper energy-efficient data centre. At the time, I was also heavily involved in social media, so I had the crazy idea, well, […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged data center, data centre, datacenter, datacentre, energy efficiency, Facebook, greenpeace, Open source, Pacific Power, prineville, renewables, unfriend coal

Sentilla thinks of data centers, as data factories!

Sentilla thinks of data centers, as data factories!

By Tom Raftery on February 17, 2011

If you have been following this blog, you’ll know I have been profiling Data Center efficiency companies over the last few weeks. This week I take a look at Sentilla. I talked to Sentilla’s CTO and co-founder, Joe Polastre, the other day and Joe told me that Sentilla came out of Berkeley where they had […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged data center, data centre, data centre energy efficiency, data factories, datacenter, datacentre, energy efficiency, sentilla, virtualisation, virtualization, vm clutter, VMware

Power Assure automates the reduction of data center power consumption

Power Assure automates the reduction of data center power consumption

By Tom Raftery on February 9, 2011

If you’ve been following this blog in the last couple of weeks you’ll have noticed that I have profiled a couple of data centre energy management companies – well, today it is the turn of Power Assure. The last time I talked to Power Assure was two years ago and they were still very early […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged bms, data center, Data Center Consolidation, data centre, datacenter, Dynamic Power Management, Dynamic Power Optimization, energy efficiency, NASA, pdu, power assure, tivoli, UPS | 1 Response

Friday Morning Green Numbers round-up 02/12/2010

Friday Morning Green Numbers round-up 02/12/2010

By Tom Raftery on February 12, 2010

Here is this Friday’s Green Numbers round-up: Iberdrola Renovables Buys Spain’s Largest Wind Park (Update1) – BusinessWeek Iberdrola Renovables SA, the world’s largest operator of wind parks, agreed to buy Spain’s largest wind farm from Gamesa Corporacion Tecnologica SA. Renovables, based in Valencia, paid Gamesa 320 million euros ($441 million) for 244 megawatts of power […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Amazon, bt, chevron, datacenter, EcoJam, ecuador, gamesa, GreenNumbers, hp, iberdrola, ibm, oil crunch, peak oil, soil, Wind farm

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