The Uptime Institute announced that it is making available the Charrette 2007 Findings to the public on its website. The highly productive three-day event offered extensive insight into the issues the industry currently faces.
ATLANTA, GA - According to ASHRAE, data centers in New York State use
an estimated $593 million worth of energy each year. Implementation of
energy-efficiency guidance and best-practices information will be
presented at five upcoming workshops from ASHRAE held throughout New
York State.
It is impossible to miss the flurry of activity and visibility recently around the multitude of so-called green initiatives being developed and unveiled. Almost every industry is pushing for the
Tridium opened registration to the 2008 Niagara Summit, which will take place May 4-6 at the Saddlebrook Resort in West Chapel, FL. The Niagara Summit is the largest gathering of industry professionals and practitioners deploying automation solutions built around open, interoperability, integration and connectivity.
Ed Donelan, owner of Telecom Infrastructure Corp, an award-winning Information Transport Solutions (ITS) corporation, has been elected president of BICSI.
Unplanned downtime is the bane of all IT departments. With the ever-increasing dependence on real-time information and 24/7/365 transaction processing, downtime strikes at the heart of corporate profitability and core mission success. Its highly visible nature inevitably leads to unhappy customers and upper management questions: Why did this happen? How can it be prevented? Don’t we already have procedures in place? When budget time arrives, however, the redundancies, staffing, and training are hard to come by. The systems get more complex, and the goal remains the same: keep the network up.
Understanding how to define high availability, setting achievable goals, and balancing costs form the beginning of a successful plan for maximum uptime.
GE Consumer & Industrial has joined The Green Grid, a global
consortium of more than 80 high–tech equipment companies, including
AMD, APC, Dell, HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Rackable Systems, SprayCool,
Sun Microsystems, and Vmware.