Intel Corporation has unveiled Silvermont, the company’s low-power, high-performance microarchitecture. The technology is aimed at low-power requirements in market segments from smartphones to the data center. Intel says that Silvermont will be the foundation for a range of products beginning to come to market later this year, and will also be made using the company’s …Continue Reading
Eaton and CA Technologies will deliver a data center monitoring, management and control product in North America, combining Eaton’s power management hardware and software with CA Technologies Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) technology. Eaton’s power management technologies are designed to help customers reduce energy consumption, and CA DCIM software provides a web-based centralized solution for …Continue Reading
Vigilent has expanded its Intelligent Energy Management system with a suite of tools for data center infrastructure management (DCIM). The software can help companies figure out where their cold and hot spots are, how well energy efficiency measures are working and how much energy their data centers are saving. Having access to this information at …Continue Reading
The Cisco Connected Energy Networks business unit is working with the Resnick Sustainability Institute at Caltech on research toward a clean distributed energy future. The parties are discussing a distributed control architecture for reliable and efficient electric systems and new distributed-market designs by blending economic principles with physical engineering laws. The Resnick Institute can bring …Continue Reading
CA Technologies has integrated RF Code’s technology into CA’s Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM), enabling customers to collect, monitor and analyze environmental and asset location information for an enhanced view of their data center infrastructure. The integration is the outgrowth of a strategic marketing agreement between the two companies. While CA’s DCIM already integrates, analyzes, …Continue Reading
Emerson Network Power has announced the US availability of its LIFE and Liebert data center infrastructure products. Emerson’s LIFE Technology is a diagnostics and IP-based communications system embedded within the company’s data center infrastructure equipment. The company says its new technology is unique within the industry in its ability to both proactively identify problems and …Continue Reading
Heat density is once again becoming a top-of-mind issue for data center managers, according to a spring survey of data center users from Emerson Network Power. The spring installment of the biannual survey, sponsored by Emerson Network Power, polled members of the Data Center Users’ Group, an association of influential data center, IT and facility …Continue Reading
Google committed an additional $600 million investment in its Lenoir, NC data center site, and said its local electricity provider, Duke Energy, has pledged to develop a new program for large companies like Google that want to buy renewable power for their operations. Duke will file the plan with the NC state commission within 90 …Continue Reading
Facebook is planning to build a $1 billion data center in Altoona, Iowa, that experts are predicting will be the world’s “most technologically advanced,” reports The Des Moines Register. The 1.4 million-sq-foot facility is expected to be built in two $500 million stages. The Register says that when completely built out, the project’s final cost could by …Continue Reading
A small team of engineers at Microsoft have invented a data-driven software solution that is slashing operating costs at the company’s 500-acre headquarters campus in Redmond, Wash., and has avoided a $60 million capital investment in energy efficiency in the process, according to the tech giant. The team, led by director of facilities and energy Darrell Smith, have …Continue Reading
