Lean, Clean & Green Resources
To help you prepare for Symposium 2009, Lean, Clean, & Green: The Energy Future of Enterprise Computing and the Data Center, (Hilton, New York, April 13 -17) we have compiled this set of informational resources. They are organized by Symposium track—Lean, Clean, Green. Each track presents articles, blogs, white papers, and websites to help you increase your knowledge and understanding of the issues in that area.
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Track 1: LEAN COMPUTING RESOURCES
Computer in the Cloud; Online desktop systems could bridge the digital divide.
Technology Review
September 18, 2007
By Erica Naone
A kind of introduction to Cloud computing, including some system makers to help in the process.
http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/19397/?a=f
Oracle, Intel To Accelerate Cloud Computing
InformationWeek
September 24, 2008
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Oracle this week said it will work with Intel in building a cloud computing software stack that companies can use to build public IT services and make them available over the Internet.
http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/grid_cluster/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=210603766
Guide To Cloud Computing
InformationWeek,
June 21, 2008 (From the June 23, 2008 issue)
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The market is getting crowded with Web-based software and storage offerings. Here's what you need to know about the cloud computing strategies of Amazon, Google, Salesforce, and five other leading vendors.
http://www.informationweek.com/news/services/hosted_apps/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=208700713
Cloud Computing Reality Check
InformationWeek’s cloud computing blog
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, Sep 24, 2008
Author writes about the InformationWeek 500 conference, recapping some of what was discussed in Cloud computing sessions. Includes links to analytics and reports.
http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/09/a_cloud_computi.html
The Future of Virtualization
Computer Technology Review
September 22, 2008 KISHORE S. SWAMINATHAN, ACCENTURE
Describes the uses and importance of virtualization and cloud computing.
http://www.wwpi.com/top-stories/6125-the-future-of-virtualization
Virtualization, cloud computing and the race to deploy
Security Bytes: A SearchSecurity.com blog
March 12th, 2008 by Dennis Fish
A blog entry focusing on the potential security lapse in hasty virtulization and need to do it correctly.
http://security.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/03/12/virtualization-cloud-computing-and-the-race-to-deploy/
White Paper: How to Choose the Right Virtualization Technology For Your Environment
November 2007
CIRBA – registration required
http://www.cirba.com/forms/form.cfm?f=12&gclid=CPmVkaq795UCFRJexwodm1ed3Q
Virtual Management, Front and Center
Posted by Arthur Cole on September 3, 2008
Looks at some of the virtualization tools offered.
http://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/dcc/?p=466
Track 2: CLEAN COMPUTING RESOURCES
Google and GE joining forces on clean energy
August 2008, ComputerWorld UK
Blog and video of Google CEO Eric Schemidt interviewing GE CEo Jeff Immelt after announcing joint project "to help develop tomorrow’s power generation, transmission and distribution — known as the “smart grid” — and its interface with next generation electric transportation". http://www.computerworlduk.com/COMMUNITY/BLOGS/index.cfm?entryid=1327&blogid=8
Tech Target definition of Clean Computing
http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci1310985,00.html
Clean Energy Innovation Conference (Australia)
http://www.goingtomeet.com/conventions/details/40654
Clean Tech Summit (Gehrson Lehrman Group)
http://www.regonline.com/builder/site/Default.aspx?eventid=630468&utm_source=Google&utm_medium=ppc&utm_campaign=GLGCleanTech&utm_term=0D0F8Z
VIA Clean Computing
This commercial website provides information on the company’s clean and green computing products and initiatives.
http://www.via.com.tw/en/initiatives/cleancomputing/
The Center for Clean Products and Clean Technologies, University of Tennessee
http://eerc.ra.utk.edu/ccpct/CDP.html
The Design for the Environment (DfE) Program in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics has begun a voluntary, cooperative project with the electronics industry to assess the life-cycle environmental impacts of flat panel display (FPD) and cathode ray tube (CRT) technologies that can be used for desktop computers. EPA's Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics established the DfE Program in 1991 to encourage businesses to incorporate environmental concerns into their business decisions. DfE industry projects are cooperative, joint efforts with trade associations, businesses, public-interest groups, and academia to assist businesses in specific industries to identify and evaluate more environmentally sound products, processes, and technologies.
Sustainable Silicon Valley
Website for this collaboration of businesses, governments, and non-governmental organizations that are identifying and addressing environmental and resource pressures in the Valley, focusing on energy and CO2.
http://www.sustainablesiliconvalley.org/
Industry Must Clean Up Its Act, Computing.co.UK, May 2007
This article describes the potential within IT for quick adoption of best practices that can decrease energy consumption and carbon emissions.
http://www.computing.co.uk/computing/news/2189052/industry-clean-act
Dell’s Asset Recovery & Recycling Services
End of life processes for IT equipment
http://www.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/services/asset_recycling/asset_recycling?c=us&cs=555&l=en&s=biz&dgc=ST&cid=33433&lid=787068
5 Steps to Green IT, eWeek, October 2007
This article discusses the toxicity and growing amount of ewaste. It argues that companies should create a recycling plan that will address equipment obsolescence and figure the costs of recycling into their technology budgets.
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Infrastructure/5-Steps-to-Green-IT/
E-waste: A blight on the environment and a company’s good name, SearchCIO.com, September, 2008
This article discusses e-waste from IT and how it finds its ways to foreign countries. It provides examples of companies that have taken a sustainable approach to end-of-life processes for IT equipment.
http://searchcio.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid182_gci1329131,00.html
RedemTech Pledges True E-Waste Stewardship
This press release on Redemtech’s commercial website summarizes Redemtech’s commitment to the safe disposal of today’s high-tech waste stream. You can also link to Redemtech’s asset recovery and other services.
http://www.redemtech.com/news_details.aspx?c_id=33&target=%2Fnews.aspx
Track 3: GREEN COMPUTING RESOURCES
GreenBiz.com video
In this session from the Corporate Ecoforum, GreenBiz.com executive editor Joel Makower hosts a panel exploring the question of "how do companies operate in a world in which energy water materials toxicity carbon intensity become barriers to growth?"
http://www.greenbiz.com/video/reinventing-everything-cef
EPA's E-Waste Policies Result in 'Anarchy,' Report Finds
By GreenerComputing Staff
Published September 18, 2008
The Federal General Accounting Office released an extensive report detailing shortcomings in how the government manages U.S. e-waste, leading to widespread pollution in developing countries.
http://www.greenercomputing.com/news/2008/09/18/epas-e-waste-policies-anarchy-report
Artificial Trees to Produce Alternative Energy
September 24th, 2008
Alternative Energy
Solar Botanic Energy Systems intend to mimic the genius of the nature; building artificial trees to generate solar power. Going a step further the technology also intends to generate wind power from the same artificial trees.
http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/artificial-trees-produce-alternative-energy/
New Hybrid Fuel Technology
Alternative Energy
September 3, 2008
The key component in the latest design of these fuel cells, developed by Monash University scientists, is Goretex(R), which a specially-coated form of popular hi tech outdoor and sporting clothing material.
http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/new-hybrid-fuel-technology/
TechRepublic White Papers. These require free registration to view.
Five Strategies for Cutting Data Center Energy Costs Through Enhanced Cooling Efficiency
Date?
Cooling accounts for approximately 37 percent of electricity usage within a well-designed data center and, in many cases, represents a significant opportunity to reduce IT energy costs. This paper presents five strategies for increasing data center cooling efficiency. Together, these methods can reduce cooling system energy costs by 30 to 45 percent and generate significant, recurring savings.
http://whitepapers.techrepublic.com.com/abstract.aspx?docid=354086
“Greening: the Data Center
By Tom Bishop
Chief Technology Officer, BMC Software
Looks at the complications of consolidation and virtualization and recommends developments in software to counter these potential difficulties.
http://documents.bmc.com/products/documents/17/52/71752/71752.pdf
Increasing Data Center Cooling Efficiency and Capacity
Date?
This paper provides a ten-step approach on how to increase the cooling efficiency, the cooling capacity, and the power density of existing data centers.
http://whitepapers.techrepublic.com.com/abstract.aspx?docid=89129
10 Techniques for Improving Data Center Power Efficiency
How to implement a power-efficient data center depends on the specific conditions. This paper looks at some possible solution – and they don’t need to be expensive or high tech.
http://whitepapers.techrepublic.com.com/abstract.aspx?docid=351805&promo=100511
ITBusinessEdge White Paper requires free registration
Reduce Energy Costs and Go Green
This white paper demonstrates how your IT organization can dramatically increase server utilization and reduce energy costs with an innovative suite of virtualization solutions.
http://www.itbusinessedge.com/offer.aspx?o=02820028site
Articles
Data Centers: Achieving Both Energy Efficiency and Reliability from Facilitiesnet Building Operating Management
By Abigail Gray, September 2005
Article describes the amount of energy consumed and possible percentage of savings with sound air management practices. Also debunks myths and misconceptions that efficiency has to come at the expense of reliability. Well-written and clear.
http://www.facilitiesnet.com/bom/article.asp?id=3295
Thinking Inside the Box: UC San Diego Opts for Eco-Friendly Datacenters, May 2008
Sun Modular Datacenter Can Cost Up to 40% Less to Cool
The University of San Diego introduces two modular Datacenters. According to the article, each high-density, 200 kilowatt-capacity datacenter-in-a-box will not only meet the need for robust data storage, but its eco-friendly design is expected to reduce cooling costs by up to 40 percent when compared to a traditional brick-and-mortar server room.
http://www.calit2.net/newsroom/release.php?id=1295
Affordable Internet Services Online, Inc.
AISO.Net is a reliable and responsible green web hosting company. Claim to have made a strong commitment to help fight pollution and preserving our natural resources. Solar panels runs their data center and office, not energy credits.
http://www.aiso.net/
Data Center Design
http://datacenterdesign.blogspot.com/2006/11/eco-friendly-solutions-build-green.html
A blog dedicated to an open exchange of ideas relating to the design of data centers & computer rooms.
DOE Data Center Energy Efficiency Program
http://www1.eere.energy.gov/industry/saveenergynow/pdfs/doe_data_centers_presentation.pdf
includes a list of resources:
US Department of Energy
Energy Efficiency and renewable energy
E Website: Sign up to stay up to date on new developments www.eere.energy.gov/datacenters
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
http://hightech.lbl.gov/datacenters.html
LBNL Best Practices Guidelines (cooling, power, IT systems) http://hightech.lbl.gov/datacenters-bpg.html
ASHRAE Data Center technical guidebooks http://tc99.ashraetcs.org/
The Green Grid Association: White papers on metrics http://www.thegreengrid.org/gg_content/
Energy Star® Program
http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=prod_development.server_efficiency
ENVIRONMENTAL CAPITAL
Daily analysis of the business of the environment by The Wall Street Journal.
Ongoing posts by Keith Johnson
September 17, 2008
Russell Gold reports:
http://blogs.wsj.com/environmentalcapital/2008/09/17/bill-gates-goes-for-algae-invests-in-biofuel-maker-sapphire-energy/#comment-24888
Brazil’s Bet: Ethanol Surpasses Gasoline in Brazil
September 19, 2008
Posted by Keith Johnson
http://blogs.wsj.com/environmentalcapital/2008/09/19/brazils-bet-ethanol-surpasses-gasoline-in-brazil/#comment-24886
Power of Green, Thomas Friedman
4/15/2007
New York Times Columnist Thomas Friedman writes in the Magazine about how America can regain its international stature by taking the lead in alternative energy and environmentalism. Based on his new book called Power of Green.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/15/magazine/15green.t.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Information Week: Defining the value of technology
What Every Tech Pro Should Know About 'Green Computing'
For most companies, the movement is about saving money, not the environment. But it's getting better at both. March, 2007
The article looks at some frightening statistics -- that U.S. data centers consume as much power in a year as is generated by five power plants -- and how this may lead to regulation by policy makers. How and why to be at the forefront of green computing.
http://www.informationweek.com/news/management/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=197801530
Ocarina Bets $1 Million on Green Large-Scale Data Storage
By GreenerComputing Staff
Published September 12, 2008
Ocarina Networks announced that it would offer $1 million in prizes to the innovators or companies that can develop data storage methods that are ten times more efficient than existing methods in the next two years.
http://www.greenercomputing.com/news/2008/09/12/ocarina-million-dollar-green-data-storage
Eco-Responsible Server Design
By Subodh Bapat
Published September 23, 2008
Bapat asks the question: “What is the reality of IT power consumption trends and how is that reality impacted by the core of the data center: the server?” Gives some suggestions for an energy efficient server.
http://www.greenercomputing.com/column/2008/09/23/eco-responsible-server-design
Google, GE team up on cleantech
Sept 18, 2008
The companies will work together on geothermal and smart grid technology and on lobbying for policy changes in the U.S.
http://media.cleantech.com/3470/google-ge-team-smart-grids
Microsoft Opens $550 Million Data Center In San Antonio
The data center is one of a network of massive facilities being built to support Microsoft's push to offer cloud services.
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InformationWeek
September 22, 2008
http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/data_centers/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=210603114
Clean tech feeds from Alt Energy Stocks
A list of more than 400 feeds on topics of clean energy, from Algae to population growth, biodiesel and much more.
http://www.altenergystocks.com/alt/feed/feeds.jsp
Blogs
GREEN, Inc.
The New York Times’ newly created blog dedicated to Energy, the Environment and the Bottom Line
http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/
A similar and older blog by Andrew Revkin looks at more individual impacts and efforts to reduce that impact while looking at the planet’s limits.
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/
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