The company is looking at ways to bring cooling devices closer to the computing gear that generates the most heat, Douglas said. David Douglas, Sun's vice president of eco-responsibility, said: "There are people out there running out of power in...
These systems require considerably more power and cooling than the last generation of hardware. With 'green IT' high on the agenda for both CIOs and tech vendors, Gartner claims electrical power consumption is just "the tip of a melting iceberg for...
Among the touted fixes are energy-efficient processors, power consumption caps, water cooling and consolidation of work from numerous inefficient low-end servers to fewer more powerful machines. Servers in the US and their attendant cooling systems...
A data centre crisis is brewing as energy supply and cooling technology struggle to keep pace with businesses' insatiable demand for computing power. Given the increasing use of high density hardware such as multi-core processors and blade servers...
Last year, the BroadGroup's Power & Cooling Survey found that the average UK data centre spent more than £5m per year on energy. The survey found that nearly half of the European companies polled believe they will outgrow their existing data centre...
The new machine will further squeeze its power consumption, the original XO laptop consumes 2W to 4W, compared with 20W to 40W for a standard laptop, and the XO2 will draw just 1W. In this week's Hansard - the verbatim record of debates in both...