Microsoft to open two mall-sized data centers
Microsoft on Monday said it is about to flip the switch on what will eventually be more than 1 million square feet of data center space in two facilities, one in Chicago, the other in Dublin, Ireland. Read more...

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The Energy Star program for servers is a good first step, most agree, but it measures energy use only under limited circumstances and does not include popular hardware types, like blade servers -- at least not yet.

Used IT gear: How to get good stuff cheap and avoid the lemons
Used IT gear can be good and cheap -- if you're careful. Here's how to avoid the lemons.

HP BladeSystem Matrix
During the Big Dig, the city of Boston erected a sign saying, "Rome wasn't built in a day. If it was, we would have hired their contractor." That's a good way to describe the general state of affairs regarding the ideal of divorcing services from hardware and pushing server management away from the physical layer. HP's BladeSystem Matrix goes a long way toward realizing this ideal of an automated datacenter, providing a wide array of very useful tools and functions, but falling just shy of the lofty goal of truly hands-free datacenter service deployment. Of course, nobody else has reached that particular goal either.

Wine, Roses & Tax Breaks: States Woo Data Centers
Hit hard by the recession, several states are looking to server farms and cloud computing facilities to help them keep jobs in their territories. The thinking: There's nothing like a data center to boost a state's economy.

Apple's Nehalem Xserve serves need for speed
From the start, Apple's Xserve has ranked best-in-class in build quality, engineering, durability, and serviceability among 1U x86 rack servers. The newest Xserve, redesigned around Intel's Nehalem Xeon quad-core CPU, adds performance to the list of Xserve's leadership criteria. Nehalem Xserve is very likely the fastest, most energy-efficient, and most cost-effective dual-socket 1U rack server on the market.

DiskDigger Gets Better, But Stays Free
DiskDigger goes well beyond the usual undelete utility that's offered gratis as a leader product, though as of version 0.8 it does that. It will also dig "beneath the file system" (author Dmitry Brant's line, which I plan to borrow regularly in the future) to recover data on a sector-by-sector basis from hard drives, thumb drives, etc. (Think of sectors as little boxes containing data that are arranged in tracks/circles on your hard drive.)

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A New Green Gold Standard
The EPA's Michael Zatz calls on data center operators to take a leadership role in the global climate change solution. The agency's energy performance rating for data centers will help; it is expected early next year.

State of Indiana
In the Indiana state government's IT department, an aggressive agenda of data center consolidation, server virtualization and energy-efficient desktop replacements has netted an annual savings of more than $13.9 million.

Apply lean methods to green your IT operation
The quality control concept of "lean" shares many of the same techniques as "green." Go lean and your IT department gets green, too, say book authors Michael Wallace and Larry Webber.

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