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• The Uptime Institute is challenging you to get rid of unused servers with a contest, 1E can help you win

  The Uptime Institute has announced a contest, where the winner is the organization that removes the most servers out of the datacenter.  This may be the first of its kind contest, but it’s a very worthy event to be … Continue reading... Posted Oct 27 2011, 09:02 AM by 1E Blogs Filed under: 1E News, Data Center, Server Efficiency

• Gartner’s Top 10 IT Challenges and how 1E fits

  Posted in several places today, news outlets are promoting Gartner’s recent comments on the top 10 IT challenges for the next cycle of cycles.  It’s always amazing to me how well 1E is positioned to solve a lot of the … Continue reading →... Posted Oct 20 2011, 01:42 PM by 1E Blogs Filed under: 1E News, Data Center, Server Power Management, PC Power Management, IT Efficiency, NightWatchman, NightWatchman Server, energy efficiency, Cloud, Server Efficiency

• County government in Fairfax County, Va. uses NightWatchman Server Edition to find servers that are good candidates for consolidation

  Public sector organizations are under pressure not only to be environmentally friendly, but also to control spending. The county government in Fairfax County, Va., launched a server virtualization program in its data center about a year and a half ago... Posted Oct 04 2011, 10:07 AM by 1E Blogs Filed under: 1E Products, 1E News, Data Center, NightWatchman Server

• Knowing how much energy is a good start

  There is a new category of software emerging called Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM). Software and tools fall under this banner if they measure, report or manage the energy consumption of data centers. Our NightWatchman Server Edition product... Posted Sep 25 2011, 11:38 AM by 1E Blogs Filed under: 1E Products, Musings, Data Center, Server Power Management, IT Efficiency, NightWatchman Server

• New Article: 3 Simple Steps to Cutting Energy Use & Costs with Green IT

  Our own Nick Milne-Home, President of 1E, has a great piece posted today on GreenBiz.com.  Here’s the lead in… Regardless of size, most companies now have a sustainability strategy. Whether it’s due to good economic sense, a corporate desire... Posted Sep 21 2011, 02:00 PM by 1E Blogs Filed under: Data Center, NightWatchman Server, energy efficiency

• Does Virtualization alone make your datacenter more IT efficient?

  If you virtualize 100 percent of your physical servers today then you will be running more operating system instances than you started with. The physical and environmental footprint has changed but you still need to monitor, patch, secure, backup and... Posted Sep 21 2011, 07:00 AM by 1E Blogs Filed under: Green IT, Data Center, Server Power Management, IT Efficiency, NightWatchman Server

• Koomey’s law and Moore’s law at odds? Not so.

  So, there’s a new law in town?  Moore’s law is a thing of the past and it’s now Koomey’s law that is making inroads into theoretical thinking.  Not really.  In reality, it appears that Moore’s law and Koomey’s law may … Continue reading... Posted Sep 20 2011, 02:00 PM by 1E Blogs Filed under: Data Center, energy efficiency, Cloud, Server Efficiency

• ITBusinessEdge Interview: 1E and the Datacenter

  Data Center Infrastructure Management is emerging as the next wave in the Green IT movement. However, integrating this new layer of management into existing data and facilities platforms is proving to be a challenge. One particular sticking point is gaining... Posted Sep 20 2011, 02:00 PM by 1E Blogs Filed under: Green IT, Data Center, Server Power Management, IT Efficiency, energy efficiency, Server Efficiency

• Software licensing inefficiency in the datacenter

  The overprovisioning of servers in data centers is rife and 15% are not actively used has led to inefficient use of hardware. On top of that there’s software license waste through unused and partially used applications on organizations’ servers. Anecdotal... Posted Sep 13 2011, 07:00 AM by 1E Blogs Filed under: Green IT, Data Center, IT Efficiency, NightWatchman Server

• What’s the cost of virtualizing the datacenter?

  The main reason why companies had so many individual servers was that performance and capability could be compromised unless applications ran on separate ones, it also made maintenance easier as well as the fact that servers were relatively cheap compared... Posted Sep 08 2011, 04:52 PM by 1E Blogs Filed under: Green IT, Data Center, Server Power Management, IT Efficiency, NightWatchman Server, energy efficiency, Server Efficiency

• Greening IT should be part of any Sustainability plan

  Nick Milne-Home, President of 1E, has a great piece posted on Enterprise Features today.  The idea is that, whatever the reason, there are many companies planning and/or implementing Sustainability plans these days.  Nick’s article does a great... Posted Sep 08 2011, 11:13 AM by 1E Blogs Filed under: Data Center, IT Efficiency, IT for sustainability

• Increasing your IT efficiency

  New tools designed for IT efficiency help identify what is useful and when. This knowledge makes it easy to establish an on-going process to reclaim unused resources and avoid unnecessary spend. Traditional tools designed for systems and operations management... Posted Sep 08 2011, 07:00 AM by 1E Blogs Filed under: Data Center, IT Efficiency

• Strategies to streamline and reduce waste in your datacenter

  Earlier this summer (July 2011) the US federal government announced plans to shut 40 percent of its data centers over the next four years. With more than 2000 data centers, the Obama Administration realized that data center consolidation was part …... Posted Sep 07 2011, 01:00 PM by 1E Blogs Filed under: Data Center, IT Efficiency, NightWatchman Server, energy efficiency

• Businesses Urged To Improve Green Reporting

  eWeek Europe posted an article yesterday, that talks about how the Environmental Agency (EA) has cut it’s CO2 emissions by almost a fifth.  The EA goes on to urge others to join in it’s success. The full article is here:  … Continue reading... Posted Aug 30 2011, 08:55 AM by 1E Blogs Filed under: Green IT, Data Center, Server Power Management, PC Power Management, NightWatchman, energy efficiency

• Don’t Virtualize Waste

  Is virtualization the answer to eliminating waste?  Some companies think so.  1E’s Andy Hawkins goes in depth in a Virtual-Strategy magazine article to help you understand the real economy of virtualization and the datacenter.... Posted Aug 12 2011, 08:12 AM by 1E Blogs Filed under: 1E News, Green IT, Data Center, Server Power Management, IT Efficiency, Virtualization