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February 11, 2010
SynapSense™ Exceeds 5 Billion Sensor Readings in World’s Leading Data Centers

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SynapSense™ Exceeds 5 Billion Sensor Readings in World’s Leading Data Centers

Monitoring Capabilities Are Top 2010 Budget Priority for Leading Enterprises

FOLSOM, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Signaling that its wireless instrumentation solutions have become a best practice for data center operators, SynapSense™ Corporation today announced its industry-leading Data Center Monitoring and Energy Management solution has sensed more than 5 billion data points in the world’s leading data centers.

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January 25, 2010
Data center saves big with better airflow monitoring

January 25, 2010
James Kennedy, the senior facility manager at RagingWire said the colocation company is saving more than $600,000 per year on cooling costs at its Sacramento, Calif.-based data center.

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January 18, 2010
SynapSense Wins 2009 Product of the Year Award from SearchDataCenter.com

January 18, 2010

The best data center products of 2009
SearchDataCenter.com staff
The winners of SearchDataCenter.com's 2009 Data Center Products of the Year are exemplified by innovation, performance and value. We've narrowed down dozens of submissions to bring you three finalists in each product category: Data center infrastructure products (backup power, data center cooling and infrastructure support products), enterprise server hardware and systems management tools.

In this down economy, data center managers are dealing with shrinking budgets and staff. These products are designed to ease that burden and help IT managers deliver more with less.

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January 18, 2010
Data center 2009 Products of the Year award winners

January 18, 2010
SearchDataCenter.com today announced its 2009 Data Center Products of the Year Awards. This is our fourth year of judging enterprise data center products, and the competition has increased annually as we receive more product nominations and shrink the number of awards (from a high of 24 awards in 2007, to just nine award winners in 2009).

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January 17, 2010
Road to Recovery: Sacramento awaits next growth wave

January 17, 2010 

STATE GOVERNMENT, DEVELOPMENT REMAIN AREA'S FOUNDATIONS
  • Today's story is the first in an ongoing series, Road to Recovery, reported by The Bee in partnership with Capital Public Radio. Look for stories during the next several months that reveal the industries, companies and people likely to pull the region from recession and provide new jobs.
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January 13, 2010
Green IT outgrows the box
Info World Logo ImageJanuary 13, 2010
Green IT has evolved well beyond hardware components and datacenter walls

When the green IT movement kicked in a couple of years back, much of the focus was on energy efficiency at the hardware level, from chips and power supplies on up to servers and racks. Further, green tech's perceived value has been primarily relegated to the datacenter and, to a lesser degree, the desktop.

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December 18, 2009
VSP Vision Care Receives SACOG’s Regional Business of the Year Award

December 18, 2009 VSP® Vision Care has been honored by the Sacramento Area Council of Governments (SACOG) through the SACOG Salutes! Regional Awards Program which recognizes significant contributions to the region in transportation, air quality and smart-growth planning.

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December 7, 2009
SynapSense CEO on Wireless Monitoring

November 7th, 2009: Rich Miller

At the Gartner Data Center Conference we spoke with Pete Van Deventer, the president and CEO of SynapSense Corp., which makes wireless monitoring products that help data center operators measure the environment and optimize their facilities for energy efficiency. Van Deventer discusses the market for wireless monitoring, how it may be impacted by new carbon regulations, and SynapSense’s development of technology to use monitoring tools to automate the management of data center cooling. This video runs about 7 minutes, 45 seconds.

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November 23, 2009
Raging Wire: A More Efficient Colo Environment

November 23, 2009  Improving a data center’s energy efficiency can be tricky in a colocation center filled with customers.  At the recent Data Center Energy Efficiency Summit sponsored by the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, Jim Kennedy of RagingWire Enterprise Solutions presented a case study detailing an efficiency project at the company’s 200,000 square foot colocation facility in Sacramento.

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November 18, 2009
Highlights from the 2009 SVLG Data Center Energy Efficiency Summit

On October 15th, 2009 NetApp hosted the Silicon Valley Leadership Groups (SVLG) 2nd Annual Data Center Energy Efficiency Summit at NetApp's corporate headquarters in Sunnyvale, CA.

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October 26, 2009
Better sensors mean greener servers

October 26, 2009.  Enterprise efforts to consolidate data centres and install virtualisation software are taking a big bite out of the number of power hungry application and storage servers required to support enterprise data. But after taking this critical first step, what else can you do to boost efficiency?

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October 23, 2009
Wireless helps hone data center efficiencies
October 23, 2009

Enterprise efforts to consolidate data centers and install virtualization software are taking a big bite out of the number of power-hungry application and storage servers required to support enterprise data. But after taking this critical first step, what else can you do to boost efficiency?

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October 23, 2009
Early adopters of energy-efficiency measures starting to see financial payoff

October 23, 2009.  SynapSense Corp. is riding the green wave, getting raves from customers and attracting the notice of major companies.

The Folsom-based company’s data center-monitoring tools are helping businesses and institutions save money by cutting power costs.

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October 14, 2009
Video: SynapSense Monitoring at LBNL

October 14, 2009.   You can’t manage what you don’t measure. Wireless sensors provide a way for data center managers to begin collecting data on exisitng facilities. In this presentation at DataCenterDynamics San Francisco in July, Dale Sartor from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory discusses the implementation of a wireless monitoring system using sensors from SynapSense. LBNL’s 700-point system measures temperature, humidity and under-floor pressure. Sartor also discusses other best practices at LBNL in this 7 minute, 15 second video.

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October 14, 2009
VSP Vision Care HQ Cuts Energy Use 27%

October 14, 2009 

All four buildings on VSP Vision Care’s Rancho Cordova, Calif., campus have earned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Energy Star for superior energy efficiency.

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October 14, 2009
Datacenter cooling makeovers can deliver quick, refreshing savings

October 14, 2009
Thermal mapping and real-time sensors can swiftly pinpoint opportunities for real energy savings

 Data-processing and storage demands have soared over the years as organizations and customers have demanded quicker access to a larger array of information and resources, from accessing sales reports from past fiscal years to conducting real-time teleconferences to viewing and sharing high-def videos of Aunt Linda's new baby hiccupping for three minutes straight. Plenty of datacenter operators have embraced perhaps the simplest solution possible: throwing hardware at the problem.

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October 9, 2009
Left in the Lurch
October 9, 2009, 1:21PM EST
Startups are finding that in hard times not all of their backers hang around. Here's what to do if they don't

 

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September 30, 2009
Carbon regs will drive datacenter outsourcing and cloud computing
September 30, 2009.  RagingWire's facility manager discusses keeping up with shifting demands of the datacenter world

For datacenter operators, plenty of change is in the air. They have the ever-shifting and generally increasing demands for processing power and storage capacity.

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September 8, 2009
Startups Go Wireless for Data Center Energy Management

September 8th, 2009 

The first step in any data center efficiency project is to figure out the problem. After all, analyst Katherine Austin says in a GigaOM Pro report (subscription required), “You can’t control what you don’t monitor.” And one of the chief ways that startups are addressing the green data center market is to help data center operators fill this energy blind spot with wireless technology.

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August 12, 2009
Will an Old Idea Become the New Way to Store Data?

August 12, 2009  
An idea coined by Stan Ovshinsky for memory chips is finally coming to the fore.  

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