Cloud Matters

Your Mileage Will Vary

EMC's advises a systems approach to IT energy efficiency. Look at every individual IT element to maximize the contribution of each.  Then step back and take a comprehensive look, a systems view.  Still, when looking at those individual elements, it pays to take care in selection and configuration.

There are similarities to auto MPG ratings. The brand and model selected make a big difference in potential efficiency.  But so do driver habits, driving conditions, and maintenance.  For storage there are even more variables that require care, along with attention to that systems view.

Your mileage will vary.

EMC storage technology delivers great individual energy results and excels when framed in that broader view. 

Our customers attest to it.

I visited with one of our largest last week in New York.  They saw the results from a recent DMX refresh where capacity was increased but power consumption dropped by 30%.

Still, it's always welcome when you get independent corroboration of benefits.

The Wrong Debate

A colleague just dropped a copy of eWeek on my desk.  The April 14th issue.  It contains an article titled: Green IT's merits spark debate by Clint Boulton.

(I'd provide you a link but the on-line eWeek seems to be out of sync with the printed paper version.  Why do they even have a printed version of eWeek?)                

The essence of the debate, staged among four Gartner analysts, was to state opposing views on the merits of "Green IT".

But, alarmist or skeptical, it was the wrong thing to debate. 

I wouldn't blame you for being immediately skeptical of four Gartnerites on stage in Las Vegas at a Gartner event debating IT impacts on global warming.  What's the chance of outside the G thinking?

And of course 'Vegas is a great place to discuss carbon footprints.  We'll be doing it at EMC World in just a few weeks. 

Hmm.

Opening Day

Baseball.

I was in New York on Tuesday,  opening day for the New York Yankees.

No need to mention your team preference in NYC. Just say you're from Boston and they fill in the blank.

So, the evening news made much of the Yankees last year of play in Yankee Stadium.  That got me to wondering how "green" the new Yankees ballpark will be.

That's because a few days earlier the Washington Nationals opened in their new "green" ballpark.
(Beat the Braves 3-2.)

                  

                "D.C. turns brownfield into 'green' ballpark"

"The Washington Nationals' gleaming new baseball park...will be the first green professional stadium in the United States,..."

And why not?