http://www.thegreenandvirtualdatacenter.com/ The Green and Virtual Data Center and Related Data Infrastructure Topics en-us 1440 Wed, Apr 1, 2009 16:25:12 GMT http://www.thegreenandvirtualdatacenter.com/rss webmaster@storageio.com webmaster@storageio.com Copyright 2006-2009 All rights reserved. The StorageIO Group (www.storageio.com) http://storageio.com/blog/?p=580 While Green hype and green washing may be on the endangered species list if not already extinct, there are many things taking place to shift the focus from talking about being green to enabling and leveraging efficiency and optimization to boost productivity and enable business sustainability. General Wed, Apr 1, 2009 16:25:12 GMT http://storageio.com/blog/?p=580 http://storageio.com/blog/?p=510 Discussion about determining energy use for IT resources. General Tue, Jun 30, 2009 17:51:11 GMT http://storageio.com/blog/?p=510 http://storageio.com/blog/?p=539 Discussion about determining energy use for IT resources. General Tue, Jun 30, 2009 17:51:11 GMT http://storageio.com/blog/?p=539 http://storageio.com/blog/?p=555 Information about Gregs new authors page and blog at Amazon.com General Tue, Jun 30, 2009 17:51:11 GMT http://storageio.com/blog/?p=555 http://storageio.com/blog/?p=577 In pursuit of big game, or, getting into the game. General Sat, Jun 27, 2009 17:01:01 GMT http://storageio.com/blog/?p=577 http://storageio.com/blog/?p=566 A look at some recent wakes and funerals, some of which the deceased were in attendence! General Sat, Jun 27, 2009 17:01:01 GMT http://storageio.com/blog/?p=566 http://storageio.com/blog/?p=564 Introduction to the climate bill in the U.S. house and senate. General Sat, Jun 27, 2009 17:01:01 GMT http://storageio.com/blog/?p=564 http://storageio.com/blog/?p=562 Shifting focus of Green IT, IT Optimizaiton and more, closing the Green Gap. General Sat, Jun 27, 2009 17:01:01 GMT http://storageio.com/blog/?p=562 http://storageio.com/portfolio.html Several links have been added to videos, podcasts and other content pertaining to efficent and optimized IT environments among other topics for servers, storage, I/O networking hardware, software and services. General Sat, Jun 6, 2009 16:36:36 GMT http://storageio.com/portfolio.html http://storageio.com/blog/?p=541 Here's a new blog link discussing twitter for those who are not yet twittering or leveraging other social networking media and mediums. General Sun, May 10, 2009 15:05:05 GMT http://storageio.com/blog/?p=541 http://storageio.com/book2.html Several new book reports and reviews have been added to The Green and Virtual Data Center book page along with links to other supporting material including look inside at Amazon and sample chapters. Check out the new book reports and review along with other enhanced content on The Green and Virtual Data Center book page. General Sun, May 10, 2009 15:05:05 GMT http://storageio.com/book2.html http://storageio.com/news.html StorageIO, The Green and Virtual Data Center book along with Greg Schulz have been receiving extensive press and media coverage ranging from book reviews, interviews, quotes and perspectives on IT industry related topics and events. The News page has been updated with links to the various news, media, blog and other coverage. In addition, the Content and Tools page has also been updated with additional new content by StorageIO. General Sun, May 10, 2009 15:05:05 GMT http://storageio.com/news.html http://storageioblog.com Several new blog postings include EPA Energy Star for Server and possible future Storage programs. Other posts include a discussion around determining server energy usage as well as a discussion around social networking and new mediums such as twitter. General Sun, May 10, 2009 15:05:05 GMT http://storageioblog.com http://storageio.com/blog/?p=527 See recent blog posting pertaining to Green IT and Earth Day 2009 General Wed, April 23, 2009 01:01:01 GMT http://storageio.com/blog/?p=527 http://storageio.com/blog/?p=524 See recent blog posting with comments about Oracle buying Sun General Wed, April 23, 2009 01:01:01 GMT http://storageio.com/blog/?p=524 http://storageio.com/blog/?p=521 See recent blog posting with comments the premature demise of the HDD, or, welcome to another zombie technology, a technology declared dead yet still being enhanced, bought and used. General Wed, April 23, 2009 01:01:01 GMT http://storageio.com/blog/?p=521 http://storageio.com/blog/?p=519 List to interview on WSRADIO discussing the Green IT Gap and how to address it. General Wed, April 23, 2009 01:01:01 GMT http://storageio.com/blog/?p=519 http://storageio.com/book2.html Several enhancements to the books pages have been made along with new content added. Some of the new content includes additional book reviews, news and what people are saying about The Green and Virtual Data Center book. General Wed, April 23, 2009 01:01:01 GMT http://storageio.com/book2.html http://storageio.com Tips and Tools, Content, Events, In the News, Links, Book Pages and other content has been added and updated along with new blog posts and twitter activity. General Wed, April 23, 2009 01:01:01 GMT http://storageio.com http://storageio.com/blog/?p=515 Author, analyst guides firms on going green through technology. Read more about the coverage and article in the Minneapolis St. Paul Business Journal. General Mon, April 13, 2009 03:01:01 GMT http://storageio.com/blog/?p=515 http://storageio.com/blog/?p=507 The conference lineup and details for the Spring 2009 TechTarget Storage Decisions event (June 1st and 2nd) in Chicago is coming together including two talks/presentations that I will be doing. One will be in Track 2 (Disaster Recovery) titled Server Virtualization, Business Continuance and Disaster Recovery, the other in Track 6 (Management/Executive) titled The Other Green -- Storage Efficiency and Optimization, both sessions leveraging themes and topics from my new book The Green and Virtual Data Center. See you in Chicago in June if not before then. General Sat, April 4, 2009 16:01:06 GMT http://storageio.com/blog/?p=507 http://www.twitter.com/storageio R U tweeting? If so, follow Greg Schulz and StorageIO at twitter.com/storageio General Sat, April 4, 2009 16:01:06 GMT http://www.twitter.com/storageio http://www.http://www.storageioblog.com New blog post has been added along with enhancements on both StorageIO and TheGreenandVirtualDataCenter pages. General Wed, April 1, 2009 16:01:10 GMT http://www.storageioblog.com http://www.http://www.thegreenandvirtualdatacenter.com Updates have been added to the news, tips, blogs and other pages at thegreenandvirtualdatacenter.com along with updates to the privacy policy page. General Sat, March 14 2009 17:50:13 GMT http://www.thegreenandvirtualdatacenter.com http://www.greenercomputing.com/feature/2009/02/18/enabling-green-virtual-data-center For those looking to enable a Green and Virtual Data Center, heres a new article appearing at GreenerComputing that provides a synopsis or taste of some of what is covered and included in my new book "The Green and Virtual Data Center" (CRC). Click on the above link to learn more. Books Thur, 19 February 2009 17:15:15 GMT http://www.greenercomputing.com/feature/2009/02/18/enabling-green-virtual-data-center http://thegreenandvirtualdatacenter.com/kindle.html For those looking for an Amazon Kindle version of "The Green and Virtual Data Center" (CRC) click on the above link to let CRC know you are interested. Books Sat, 14 February 2009 17:25:31 GMT http://thegreenandvirtualdatacenter.com/kindle.html http://www.thegreenandvirtualdatacenter.com/book2.html Updates have been made to StorageIO website including additional mentions and media coverage of the release of "The Green and Virtual Data Center" (CRC) along with more venues to order your copy of "The Green and Virtual Data Center" (CRC) on the books pages. Books Sat, 14 February 2009 17:25:31 GMT http://www.thegreenandvirtualdatacenter.com/book2.html http://www.thegreenandvirtualdatacenter.com/book2.html Updates have been made to StorageIO website including additional mentions and media coverage of the release of "The Green and Virtual Data Center" (CRC) as well as other commentary on industry trends and perspectives. Additional dates have been added to events page along with more venues to order your copy of "The Green and Virtual Data Center" (CRC) on the books pages. New links have also been added to the industry links page. Check out new blog postings at www.storageioblog.com. Books Sat, 31 January 2009 15:39:11 GMT http://www.thegreenandvirtualdatacenter.com/book2.html http://storageio.com/Book2_PR.html I am pleased to share with you the news about the launch of my new book, The Green and Virtual Data Center, which is being released today by Auerbach/CRC-Press and is available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Borders, CRC Press, and other venues around the world. The book focuses on the idea that IT infrastructure resources configured and deployed in a highly virtualized manner can be combined with other techniques and technologies to achieve a simplified and cost-effective delivery of IT services in a clean, green, and profitable manner. The Green and Virtual Data Center covers these technologies and techniques that todays data centers should be considering while trying to maximize resources, such as power, cooling, floor space, storage, server performance, and network capacity. Some of the topics include Energy and data footprint reductions, Cloud-based storage and computing, Intelligent and adaptive power management, Server, storage, and networking virtualization, Tiered servers for storage, network, and data centers, Energy avoidance and energy efficiency. To learn more about "The Green and Virtual Data Center", please visit my new website www.thegreenandvirtualdatacenter.com along with my blog www.storageioblog.com. Books Tue, 27 January 2009 6:09:01 GMT http://storageio.com/Book2_PR.html http://www.thegreenandvirtualdatacenter.com Several new links have been added to various news and articles on the Links page which has now been renamed Green Links on the vertical menu bar. Updates have also been made to the Green Tools page including additional calculators. Updates have also been made to the metrics and books page at www.thegreenandvirtualdatacenter.com aka wwww.greendatastorage.com Site News Sat, 10 January 2009 22:32:23 GMT http://thegreenandvirtualdatacenter.com http://www.thegreenandvirtualdatacenter.com Several new links along with enhancements to the look and feel have been made to the website www.greendatastorage.com also known and reffered to by www.thegreenandvirtualdatacenter.com. Several new blog posts can also be found at www.storageioblog.com as well as new updates on the main StorageIO website www.storageio.com. Site News Thu, 1 January 2009 23:31:13 GMT http://thegreenandvirtualdatacenter.com http://www.thegreenandvirtualdatacenter.com Several new links along with enhancements to the look and feel have been made to the website www.greendatastorage.com also known and reffered to by www.thegreenandvirtualdatacenter.com. Several new blog posts can also be found at www.storageioblog.com as well as new updates on the main StorageIO website www.storageio.com. Site News Sun, 28 December 2008 17:47:17 GMT http://thegreenandvirtualdatacenter.com http://www.storageio.com Several new blog posts have been added to the StorageIOblog at www.storaeioblog.com including comments and perspectives on Seagate changing disk drive warranties, remember the Alamo, server, storage and I/O virtualizaiton and other topics. Several new links have been added to the "News secion of the StorageIO website with comments, quotes and industry perspectives on various topics. Site News Sun, 14 December 2008 18:58:23 GMT http://storageio.com http://www.storageio.com For those who tweet on twitter, you can find and follow StorageIO at www.twitter.com/storageio. Social networking fans can also find StorageIO and Greg Schulz on Facebook, Technorati and other venues in addition to the main StorageIO website (www.storageio.com) and blog at www.storageioblog.com Site News Sun, 14 December 2008 18:58:23 GMT http://storageio.com http://www.greendatastorage.com Several new articles and links have been added as well some of the pages streamlined as part of on-going improvements in advance of the launch of the new book "The Green and Virtual Data Center" (Auerbach) written by Greg Schulz. In addition to www.greendatastorage.com, www.thegreenandvirtualdatacenter.com now also points to the site which will continue to expand coverage of storage as well as I/O, networking, servers and related technologies, trends, techniques and practices involved in enabling a green and virtual data center. Additional informaiton about the new book "The Green and Virtual Data Center" (Auerbach) due for release in January 2009 including how to order your copy now have been updated. See the BOOKS page on the website for more information as well as checkout the StorageIO Blog at www.storageioblog.com. The Green and Virtual Data Center Sat, 6 December 2008 6:32:32 GMT http://www.greendatastorage.com http://www.greendatastorage.com Several new articles and links have been added. Check out the blog of Greg Schulz at www.storageioblog.com for additional related topics including environmental and economic friendly solutions as well as information on the new book "The Green and Virtual Data Center" (Auerbach). Green Storage Sat, 29 November 2008 15:38:23 GMT http://www.greendatastorage.com http://www.greendatastorage.com Several new articles and links have been added. Check out the blog of Greg Schulz at www.storageioblog.com for additional related topics including environmental and economic friendly solutions. Green Storage Sat, 8 November 2008 14:11:13 GMT http://www.greendatastorage.com http://www.greendatastorage.com Several new articles and links have been added. Also check out the blog of Greg Schulz at www.storageioblog.com for additional related topics including closing the Green Gap while effective environmental and economic friendly solutions begin to take root. Green Storage Wed, 22 October 2008 3:43:34 GMT http://www.greendatastorage.com http://www.greendatastorage.com Several new articles and links have been added including information about the new book "The Green and Virtual Data Center" (Auerbach). Also check out the blog of Greg Schulz at www.storageioblog.com for additional related topics including closing the Green Gap and why green washing and green hype may be on the endangered list while effective environmental and economic friendly solutions begin to take root. Green Storage Sun, 14 September 2008 16:24:14 GMT http://www.greendatastorage.com http://www.greendatastorage.com In addition to the recent changes to enhance the look and feel of www.greendatastorage.com, several new articles and links have been added including information about the new book "The Green and Virtual Data Center" (Auerbach). A new article called "Closing the Green Gap" has also been added along with updates to the events pages. Also check out the blog of Greg Schulz at www.storageioblog.com for additional related topics. Green Storage Sat, 30 August 2008 14:07:13 GMT http://www.greendatastorage.com http://www.greendatastorage.com New look and feel has been applied to www.greendatastorage.com. Green Storage Thur, 07 August 2008 14:35:21 GMT http://www.greendatastorage.com http://www.greendatastorage.com New links to articles and other items have been added. Green Storage Mon, 04 August 2008 08:01:01 GMT http://www.greendatastorage.com http://www.greendatastorage.com Links to additional articles and tools including a handy power conversion tool and calculator (See calculator page) by diesel services have been added. Green Storage Tue, 22 July 2008 16:01:14 GMT www.greendatastorage.com http://www.greendatastorage.com Links to additional presentations, tutorials, articles, columns, blogs, news and related material have been added added. Green Storage Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:24:11 GMT www.greendatastorage.com http://www.greendatastorage.com A new events page with upcoming and past events and presentation downloads has been added. The metrics page has been enhanced with material from recent presentations. Green Storage Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:24:11 GMT www.greendatastorage.com http://www.greendatastorage.com Several new article links have been added to the interesting links page at www.greendatastorage.com Green Storage Sat, 26 Apr 2008 19:24:13 GMT www.greendatastorage.com http://www.greendatastorage.com A new presentation covering Power, Cooling, Floor-space, Environmental (PCFE) for storage and other IT technologies given at Spring 2008 SNW in Orlando April 8th is now available at www.greendatastorage.com Green Storage Fri, 11 Apr 2008 3:12:11 GMT www.greendatastorage.com http://www.greendatastorage.com Several Additional links to power, cooling, carbon and other calculators have been added http://www.greendatastorage.com/calculator.htm. Green Storage Fri, 4 Apr 2008 2:35:08 GMT www.greendatastorage.com http://www.greendatastorage.com Additional links including new calculators, updates to metrics and content have been added pertaining to power, cooling, floor-space, environmental (PCFE), green and related topics at http://www.greendatastorage.com. Green Storage Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:35:08 GMT www.greendatastorage.com http://www.greendatastorage.com Additional links and content have been added pertaining to power, cooling, floor-space, environmental (PCFE), green and related topics at http://www.greendatastorage.com. Green Storage Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:55:12 GMT www.greendatastorage.com http://www.greendatastorage.com In addition to more links to blogs, articles, new content pertaining to MAID 2.0 and inteligent power management, Solid State Disk (SSD) and other topics, a new page has been added to collect links to various power, cooling, configuration, environmental and related calculators or configurators at http://www.greendatastorage.com/Calculator.htm among other updated items. Green Storage Sat, 12 Jan 2008 15:41:11 GMT www.greendatastorage.com http://www.greendatastorage.com New links to articles, blogs, websites, reports and other content have been added along with changes to some of the page layouts including a new green storage and IT primer page and metrics page. Some of the content from the home page of www.greendatastorage.com has been moved to a new primer and getting started with green storage and IT page. Green Storage Tue, 01 Jan 2008 15:23:15 GMT www.greendatastorage.com http://www.greendatastorage.com Several new links to articles, blogs, pod casts and reports have been added pertaining to green storage, green IT, green data centers, power, cooling, energy, floorspace or environmental related topics. Links to new reports include "The Many Faces of MAID" and "Achieving Energy Savings using FLASH based SSD" among others. Green Storage Sat, 22 Dec 2007 14:54:01 GMT www.greendatastorage.com http://www.greendatastorage.com Several new links to articles, conference presentatins, blogs, websites, webinars and reports have been added pertaining to green storage, green IT, green data centers, power, cooling, energy, floorspace and environmental related topics. Content has also been added or updated on the interesting links, home and power primer pages. Green Storage Wed, 21 Nov 2007 16:00:00 GMT www.greendatastorage.com http://www.greendatastorage.com Several new links to articles, conference presentatins, blogs, websites, webinars and reports have been added pertaining to power, cooling, energy, floorspace and environmental related topics. Green Storage Fri, 02 Nov 2007 22:00:00 GMT www.greendatastorage.com http://www.greendatastorage.com Several new links to articles, conference presentatins, blogs, websites, webinars and reports have been added pertaining to power, cooling, energy, floorspace and environmental related topics. Green Storage Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:20:00 GMT www.greendatastorage.com http://www.greendatastorage.com Several new links to articles, conference presentatins, blogs, websites, webinars and reports have been added pertaining to power, cooling, energy, floorspace and environmental related topics. Green Storage Sat, 13 Oct 2007 12:10:00 GMT www.greendatastorage.com http://www.greendatastorage.com Several new links to articles, blogs, websites, webinars and reports have been added pertaining to power, cooling, energy, floorspace and environmental related topics. Green Storage Thu, 30 Aug 2007 18:10:00 GMT www.greendatastorage.com http://storageio.com/xreports.htm The StorageIO Group (www.storageio.com) has published a new industry trends and perspective report "Analysis of EPA Report to Congress (Public Law 109-431)" that provides a perspective on the EPA Report to Congress addressing public law 109-431 pertaining to IT datacenter electrical power consumption. On August 1, 2007 the United States environmental protection agency (EPA) responding to public law 109-431 presented a 130 page report (plus 14 pages of executive summary and 67 pages of appendices and other supporting documents) to the U.S. congress addressing IT datacenter electrical energy consumption and associated issue. The EPA conducted a series of webcasts on August 9th 2007 covering the report, its findings, recommendations and plans for moving forward. This is a synopsis of the EPA report to congress with comments by the StorageIO group as to what the EPA report means. Analyst reports Wed, 15 Aug 2007 21:30:00 GMT http://storageio.com/xreports.htm http://www.greendatastorage.com Recent updates and additions to www.greendatastorage.com/interestinglinks.htm additional links to additional articles, webcast, tips and news stories associated with server, storage and IT data infrasture power, cooling, environmental as well as green data management topics including EPA Report to Congress and Public Law 109-431 along with a new article title "Pace Yourself to Meet Storage Power and Cooling Needs" http://www.enterprisestorageforum.com/management/features/article.php/11186_3691011_1 Green Storage Fri, 3 Aug 2007 20:00:00 GMT http://greendatastorage.com http://www.greendatastorage.com The StorageIO Group (www.storageio.com) has launched a companion web site (www.greendatastorage.com) with a focus around IT data center power, cooling and associated environmental or green topics pertaining to IT data centers including servers, storage, networks and associated management items. The site contains various primer and background information pertaining to green storage, storage management and related topics as well as links to various websites, blogs, tools, articles and webcasts among other informaiton. Green Storage Wed, 25 Jul 2007 22:00:00 GMT http://greendatastorage.com