The future of data centers is not about performance. It’s about performance per watt. It’s about building a data center that uses less power, lowers operating costs and leaves a smaller carbon footprint. Read More »
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Low-power server maker SeaMicro has raised another $20 million in funding, according to a filing. SeaMicro’s server technology consumes a quarter of the power of a regular server but packs more than 2,000 CPU cores. Read More »
For this year’s Green:Net, a team of GigaOM editors and industry insiders chose 10 innovators in the digital energy space to present their “big ideas” for using information technology to fight climate change. Here are some of the insights they shared. Read More »
Data centers are becoming greener across the board, and the latest proof of this came from Facebook. Here’s a list of 10 innovations from entrepreneurs and engineers that are leading to more energy efficient, and less carbon intensive, data centers. Learn more at Green:Net 2011! Read More »
Our third annual Green:Net event is coming up on April 21 (yep, next week!) and we’re getting really excited about all the great speakers, announcements and discussions that will go on. Here’s a cheat sheet of 10 things you can’t miss at the show. Read More »
Presenting our 10 Big Ideas winners, which are some of the most innovative in the digital energy space, and have novel “Big Ideas” for how to use information technology to fight climate change. The winners will present at Green:Net 2011 on April 21 in San Francisco. Read More »
With so much data flowing over networks and with so much computing power needed to crunch that data, computing infrastructure needs to be as low power as possible to both make the era of “big data” economical and also more eco-friendly. Read More »
This week we’ll be kicking off the GigaOM Network’s third annual event focused on cloud computing and Internet infrastructure, Structure 2010 in San Francisco, and in honor of the big event we’ve decided to round up our 5 favorite green data center startups out there. Read More »
Get ready to start hearing a whole lot more about stealthy low-power server maker SeaMicro. The under-the-radar company has finally unveiled its server technology that consumes a quarter of the power of a regular server but packs more than 2,000 CPU cores and costs $139,000. Read More »
When the Department of Energy announced that it was awarding 14 data center efficiency projects $47 million this morning, one name piqued my interest: SeaMicro. The stealthy server maker has remained under the radar despite raising at least $10 million from backers like Khosla… Read More »
Now here’s a truly smart way to spend some of the stimulus: This morning Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced that the Department of Energy will spend $47 million of its stimulus funds on 14 projects that will make information and communication technology more efficient, with… Read More »
