The Green and Virtual Data Center - Enabling Efficient IT Computing: Green Servers, Storage and Data Infrastructure Topics

Click here to learn about the new book "The Green and Virtual Data Center" (Auerbach) for enabling efficient and Green IT data centers covering servers, storage, networks, software, facilities and associated management topics, technologies and techniques. This new book by industry veteran analyst, author and consultant Greg Schulz is the definitive guide for enabling economic efficiency and ecologically friendly Green IT computing and next generation data centers that looks at issues and solutions from a technology and business sustainment perspective.

Green hype and green washing may be on the endangered species list and going away, however, green IT for servers, storage, networks, facilities as well as related software and management techniques that address energy efficiency including power and cooling along with e-waste, environmental health and safety related issues are topics that wont be going away anytime soon.

There is a growing green gap between green hype messaging or green washing and IT pain point issues including limits on availability or rising costs of power, cooling, floor-space as well as e-waste and environmental health and safety (PCFE). To close the gap will involve addressing green messaging and rhetoric closer to where IT organizations pain points are and where budget dollars exists that can address PCFE and other green related issues as a by-product.

The green gap will also be narrowed as awareness of broader green related topics coincide with IT data center pain points, in other words, alignment of messaging with IT issues that have or will have budget dollars allocated towards them to sustain business and economic growth via IT resource usage efficiency. [ Read more ]

Recent Event: New York City, September 24th, 2008 Green and Environmental Friendly Storage: Practical Ways to Achieve Energy Efficiency Green is in-and every storage vendor out there has a green story to tell. Greg Schulz, Founder and Senior Analyst, StorageIO discussed issues, trends, drivers and what technology and best practices can be applied today to address data and storage footprint growth to enable and sustain business and economic growth. Learn about other upcoming events along with previous presentations and content pertaining to Power, Cooling, Floor-space, Environmental (PCFE) and green related topics for storage, servers, networking and IT data centers [ Read More... ]

Various metrics exists and others are evolving for measuring, estimating, reporting, analyzing and discussing IT Data Center infrastructure resource topics including servers, storage, networks, facilities and associated software management tools from a power, cooling and green environmental standpoint. [ Read More... ].

What's your power, cooling, floor space, energy, environmental or green story? Do you have questions or want to learn more about energy issues pertaining to IT data center and data infrastructure topics? Do you have a solution or technology or a success story that you would like to share with us pertaining to data storage and server I/O energy optimization strategies? Do you need assistance in developing, validating or reviewing your strategy or story? Contact us at: green@storageio.com or 651-275-1563 to learn more about green data storage and server I/O or to schedule a briefing to tell us about your energy efficiency and effectiveness story pertaining to IT data centers and data infrastructures.

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