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May 19, 2008.   Nine Partners Embrace IBM Software to Help Customers Tackle Energy Challenges Across Data Centers and Facilities.  At its annual IBM Pulse Conference in Orlando, IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced new software designed to help customers address the growing need to maximize energy efficiency and reduce costs associated with power and cooling. The software is part of IBM's Project Big Green initiative in which IBM has committed $1 billion per year to deliver technologies that help customers increase energy efficiency in their data centers and physical plants.

May 8, 2008.  Measure, measure, measure: It's one of the pieces of advice repeatedly doled out to companies looking to make their datacenters more energy-efficient. Without question, it's a sound suggestion; if you don't know where you're starting from, how do you know where you should go or whether you've made any progress? The real difficulty, however, lies in the measuring process. It can be time consuming. And once you've thoroughly measured the temperature, humidity, airflow, and energy consumption throughout your facility, you have a valuable snapshot -- but just for a while. As time passes and changes occur within your datacenter -- new equipment is added, a tile plate comes loose, a CRAC unit goes down -- you might not realize you have a hot spot until the next time you take a measurement (or a system overheats).  Fortunately, change is afoot.

May 7, 2008. Posted by Heather Clancy @ 7:49 am.   I was invited by a local hosting provider to give a presentation last Friday about green data centers. As I was gathering the data to illustrate some of the trends I wanted to highlight, I was astonished to discover that very few companies apparently measure their server power consumption very closely today.

May 6, 2008.  Maybe it's the time of year, but computer companies suddenly seem to be growing greener -- including IBM, which has just unveiled a trio of initiatives centered around energy efficiency.

April 29, 2008.  SynapSense™ Corporation, a provider of wireless instrumentation solutions, today introduced SynapSoft™ 4.0 featuring LiveImaging™ that provides the world’s first real-time images of data center conditions for optimizing cooling, power and operational efficiencies. The SynapSoft 4.0 solution was unveiled at the Uptime Institute’s Symposium 2008 being held this week in Orlando, Fla.

April, 29, 2008.  FOLSOM, Calif., and Orlando, Fla., – SynapSense™ Corporation, a leading provider of wireless instrumentation solutions, today introduced SynapSoft™ 4.0 featuring LiveImaging™ that provides the world’s first real-time images of data center conditions for optimizing cooling, power and operational efficiencies.

April 10, 2008.  SynapSense Corporation, a leading provider of wireless instrumentation solutions, today announced that the company has named data center energy-efficiency expert, Ray Pfeifer, vice president of business development.

April 4, 2008.  A Folsom startup's pilot project could reduce the Sacramento Municipal Utility District(SMUD) data center's annual energy use by 7 percent. The project's results have landed SynapSense Corp. a contract with the utility and three more pilot programs with SMUD commercial customers.

March 28, 2008.   Watch Video Interview with Claudia Fan Munce, Managing Director, IBM  Unlike Intel Capital, which functions much like a venture capital firm within Intel Corp.], IBM Corp.'s venture unit doesn't invest money in startups but rather teams up with VC firms to identify nascent companies that are developing technologies the computer giant believes will benefit its customers down the road.