Experiments at many leading large-scale data centers hold lessons for smaller ones that may not have the dedicated engineering and facilities staffs to fine-tune their data center’s efficiency. Read more »
From car sharing to ride sharing, significant investments and the proliferation of smartphones are now betting on the transformation of how we get around. Read more »
For years now data centers have grown more aware of their power consumption costs, a trend that has allowed IT giants with significant capital like Google and Facebook to experiment with… Read more »
In the past I’ve looked at the strategy some IT leaders are using to reduce data center energy costs by locating data centers off the beaten path. Iceland was one case I… Read more »
In the past I’ve looked at the strategy some IT leaders are using to reduce data center energy costs by locating data centers off the beaten path. Iceland was one case… Read more »
Smart grid networking equipment maker Silver Spring Networks had a very good day on Friday after it significantly beat earning estimates. The company actually showed GAAP net income of $9.5 million,… Read more »
The fourth quarter in cleantech saw attention paid to two prominent and publicly traded companies: EV maker Tesla and newly minted public listing SolarCity. It remains a transitional period for the… Read more »
For webscale data centers running hundreds of thousands of servers, one of the issues is maintaining good visibility on the workings of those servers. Faced with this problem a Facebook engineer… Read more »