• Five ways to improve data center power efficiency you might not have thought of

  By Jon Gold | 11 May, 2012 00:41

  LAS VEGAS -- While few doubt the importance of maximizing the energy efficiency of their corporate data centers, executive vice president of data center technology for Las Vegas-based Switch, Mark Thiele's talk at Interop this week showcased just how much companies might still be missing. 

• Smart micro-grid to debut in regional NSW

  By Rodney Gedda | 31 March, 2011 10:31

  Houses in the Newcastle and Scone regions of NSW have been selected to trial battery-powered “micro-grid” which can increase energy efficiency and reduce the impact of outages.

• Chip startup seeks to lower electric bills in data centers

  By Dan Nystedt | 17 August, 2010 04:50

  A new startup funded by major chip makers and investment firms is taking aim at electricity bills, the biggest cost in data centers.

• Off-the-grid gadget chargers provide power in a pinch

  By Elsa Wenzel | 30 July, 2010 14:07

  Keeping mobile phones and other portable electronics charged is a hassle if you make frequent business trips or work in multiple locations. Inevitably, your smartphone's battery dies far from a power source just when you need to make a crucial call or get directions to a meeting.

• Bike powers Nokia phone charger

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 03 June, 2010 20:51

  Nokia has upped the "how green can you get" stakes with a kit that allows users to charge their phones when cycling, the phone manufacturer said on Thursday.

• Laptop tips: Add RAM, recycle a hard drive

  By Rick Broida | 21 July, 2010 23:56

  It's been almost a year since I served up some nice, hot laptop tips--and that's inexcusable. I'll make it up to you this week with some useful advice on adding memory to a laptop, turning an old laptop hard disc into an external drive, and using your laptop's power settings effectively.

• Smart grids set to revolutionise energy companies - Part 2

  By David Braue | 03 May, 2011 10:29

  Smart meters have a way to go. The recent 2010 Australian Smart Grid Study, a survey of 13 Australian utilities by sector consultancy Logica, showed an average self-reported maturity rating of just 2.14 on a scale of 1 to 5, and communications networks to support them rated 2.80.

• Smart grids set to revolutionise energy companies - Part 1

  By David Braue | 02 May, 2011 11:28

  Like any entrepreneur, Andrew Dyer is excited about the possibilities for his clean-energy venture, BrightSource Energy. The company, of which he is a director, is this year partnering with energy giant Chevron to cover 1000 acres of the US desert with 4000 mirrors that reflect sunlight onto three boilers mounted atop each of three 100 metre towers.

• NY hospital cuts power bill with thin-client virtualization

  By Joab Jackson | 05 February, 2010 04:33

  New York City's Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers is saving power and money by replacing its desktop computers with thin clients running virtualized operating systems.

Whitepapers about power

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  Top 10 Mistakes in Data Centre Operations: Operating Efficient and Effective Data Centers

  For years, the data centre industry has accepted that human operational error, not poor data centre design or engineering, is the number one cause of data centre downtime. Now is the time for companies to evaluate their data centre operations programs. They must be able to clearly articulate operational requirements and design an operations program based on the risk profile of the data centre. However, the road to creating an industry-best operations program will not be easy, especially for those companies whose core expertise is not in business critical facilities. Read on.

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  Data Center Physical Infrastructure: Optimising Business Value

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  Guidance for Calculation of Efficiency (PUE) in Data Centers

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  Virtualisation and Cloud Computing: Optimised Power, Cooling, and Management Maximises Benefits