Hurricane Electric’s President Mike Leber was recently interviewed for the San Jose Business Journal in an article titled “Fremont’s Hurricane at the center of IP storm”. From the article: Over the next year, demand for more IP addresses is expected to explode as the number of computers, mobile devices and smart gadgets used worldwide rises above 1 trillion. One Silicon Valley data center is already prepared because it expanded its facility early. Fremont’s Hurricane Electric […]
Bluestone was recently featured in an article about Stop and Shop’s energy conservation efforts. From the article: In 2008, Stop & Shop called upon the expertise of Bluestone Energy Services, based in Norwell, MA, to assist in company wide energy improvements. “The company helped us with numerous aspects of our projects, from conducting store surveys to performing turnkey installations,” says Macomber. “Bluestone has also helped us with completing applications for energy rebates and incentives.” Stop […]
Bluestone Energy’s Director of Lighting Gabriel Andreson Recently wrote an article for Environmental Design and Construction magazine titled “An Aerial View of High Intensity Fluorescents vs. LEDs” in which he reviews the pros and cons of the two lighting technologies. From the article: The limitations of High Intensity Fluorescents and recent improvements in LED technology have caused LEDs to be a superior alternative in many cases. LED high bay fixtures generally use less energy than […]
Bluestone Energy’s President Peter Fairbanks recently wrote an article for EDC Magazine about the Colonnade Hotel partnering with Bluestone Energy Services to implement hotel-wide energy efficiency upgrades. After its initial evaluation of the hotel, Bluestone Energy Services successfully secured a $465,000 incentive payment from NSTAR that enabled Bluestone to make numerous eco-friendly improvements to dated, inefficient or otherwise failing systems. First, Bluestone Energy installed a new efficient chiller with frictionless oil-free compressors. This state-of-the-art chiller […]
Hurricane Electric’s Owen DeLong recently wrote an article for Data Center Knowledge on IPv6 Adoption in the Data Center. From the article: Most data center operators know that a failure to transition to IPv6 will eventually restrict access to connected resources and degrade communications efficiency. But one lesson of World IPv6 Day (held June 8, 2011) is that IPv6 adoption can bring immediate benefits in the form of improved network topologies and security today. In […]
Bluestone Energy’s Director of Data Center Services Coy Stine recently wrote an article for infoTECH Spotlight titled “Cooling the cloud” about the challenges the architecture of the cloud brings to traditional cooling paradigms. From the article: According to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce), cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, […]
Bluestone Energy Services’ recent retrofit of the Colonnade Hotel in Boston was featured in an article titled “Welcome to Boston!” in Engineered Systems. Smaller in size but big on style and service, the Colonnade looked to compete with bigger brands by cutting costs behind the scenes. Bluestone’s turnkey retrofit of existing systems had a chiller overhaul lead the list of improvements, which included lighting and controls retrofits, and allowing rooms to recirculate air when unoccupied. […]
Bluestone Energy’s Director of Lighting Gabriel Andreson recently wrote an article for EDC Magazine titled “Evaluating LED Technology”, in which he reviews the ways facility managers and other buyers of LED technologies should evaluate the offerings in the marketplace. From the article: n order to better evaluate LED technology, there are a few key concepts that must be understood: Luminous Efficacy – This is defined as the number of lumens generated per watt of electricity […]
Bluestone Energy’s Coy Stine, Director of Data Center Engineering, recently wrote about data center retrofit strategies in a piece for Data Center Knowledge. From the article: In these uncertain financial times, reducing data center operating costs has become a top corporate priority. Unfortunately, limited budgets often preclude efficiency initiatives that have high initial costs. An increasingly popular alternative approach involves leveraging technologies that improve the energy efficiency of existing equipment while minimizing up-front outlays and data-center […]
