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- SynapSense™ Exceeds 5 Billion Sensor Readings in World’s Leading Data Centers
- Data center saves big with better airflow monitoring
- SynapSense Wins 2009 Product of the Year Award from SearchDataCenter.com
- Data center 2009 Products of the Year award winners
- Road to Recovery: Sacramento awaits next growth wave
- Green IT outgrows the box
- VSP Vision Care Receives SACOG’s Regional Business of the Year Award
- SynapSense CEO on Wireless Monitoring
- Raging Wire: A More Efficient Colo Environment
- Highlights from the 2009 SVLG Data Center Energy Efficiency Summit
- Better sensors mean greener servers
- Wireless helps hone data center efficiencies
- Early adopters of energy-efficiency measures starting to see financial payoff
- Video: SynapSense Monitoring at LBNL
- VSP Vision Care HQ Cuts Energy Use 27%
- Datacenter cooling makeovers can deliver quick, refreshing savings
- Left in the Lurch
- Carbon regs will drive datacenter outsourcing and cloud computing
- Startups Go Wireless for Data Center Energy Management
- Will an Old Idea Become the New Way to Store Data?
- Businessweek & YOUNOODLE: Is SynapSense the next Google?
- Venture Capital: Getting Past the "Winning Company" Approach
- SynapSense™ Bolsters Data Center PowerImaging™ Solution With Branch Circuit Monitoring
- Energy Innovators Honored Today by Silicon Valley Power
- IBM Delves Into Lithium-Air Batteries, Water-Cooled Supercomputers
- Google, Yahoo Seed Funders Look to Energy-Saving Companies
- Efficient Power Use Attracts Investors From the Green Side
- What Big Companies Want from Green Startups
- Remarks of the Honorable Doris O. Matsui
- IBM takes role in ‘smart grid’ projects
- Keeping data centers cool
- SynapSense Adds $7M To Second VC Round
- SynapSense Receives $7 Million in New Investments to Expand Leadership in Wireless Data Center Energy Initiatives
- Data center industry unites to drag LEED into green IT
- Crank up the datacenter heat -- with care
- IBM Rides Third Wave of Cleantech
- SynapSense Wins Prestigious Award from U.S. Department of Energy for Energy-Saving Data Center...
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- SynapSense grabs GoingGreen honors
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- Yahoo turns to wireless data center monitors, cold-aisle containment to lower PUE
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- Energy costs for data centers forecast to leap 13-fold by 2012
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Google, Yahoo Seed Funders Look to Energy-Saving Companies
In the May issue I wrote about how the UC Davis Energy Efficiency Center is making efficiency sexy as an investment to Silicon Valley VCs and big companies alike. Now The New York Times has caught on, reporting that Sequoia Capital, which made its name seeding Yahoo and Google, has invested in SynapSense, a UC Davis company mentioned in my story that uses sensors to lower the energy use of data centers; Google's venture fund and top green fund Kleiner Perkins, meanwhile, have invested in Silver Spring Networks, a smart meter company. Investors like that in today's harsh economic climate, companies like these have the potential to be efficient not only with energy, but with capital too.
Image: one of SynapSense's readouts shows areas of heat in a data center.
BY Anya Kamenetz, Fast Company
Tue May 12, 2009 at 6:06 PM