Blade Watch

http://blogs.zdnet.com/green/?p=1166

The powers-that-be at Blade.org (now representing close to 200 companies) have made advanced energy efficiency the focus of some of the organization’s collaborative working groups.

The consortium actually has latched onto what it’s calling three megatrends that it highlighted at its recent conference in New York: converged networks, advanced energy efficiency and hyper consolidation. Some of the presentations and proceedings from the conference are at this link. One that might be of particular interest to readers of this green tech blog is “Close Coupled Cooling – A New Concept for Data Center Heat Rejection” (given by Jim Simonelli, the chief technology officer of APC). There’s also one about how memory and processor technologies will play a role, given by Intel, that might be appropriate for your own company.

The demand for energy efficient IT solutions continues, because we want to reduce our operational costs, to reduce our environmental impact, or as a result of the need to continue to deploy infrastructure within the constraints of our existing data center power and cooling. Illustrating how blade servers can be used as part of an energy efficient IT solution has to be a good thing for the blade platform and the industry, do check it out.

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