In this whitepaper written for Data Center Knowledge and Cyrus One, issues that arise when an colocated enterprise requires substantial growth in information technology infrastructure are explored. From the whitepaper: Although most global enterprises today have multiple IT providers, it is worthwhile for large organizations to consider consolidating data center support processes under just one multinational provider. A single line of command and control can often provide more consistent security, scalability, administrative simplicity, performance and […]
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Bluestone Energy Completes High Efficiency Lighting Retrofit for National Food Distributor
NORWELL, Mass.–October 28, 2011(BUSINESS WIRE)–Bluestone Energy Services, LLC, a division of OpTerra Energy Group and leader in energy conservation engineering and project development services for industrial and commercial clients, announced today that a lighting project it recently completed for a food distribution center will provide a 950,000 kWh reduction in annual electrical consumption and a payback of less than one year. “We look forward to partnering with NortheastDCP on future projects for their other facilities, […]
Milldam featured in Web Host Industry Review about new Whitepaper Writing Service
Whitepaper service will partner with Data Center Knowledge to increase brand awareness for Milldam and clients Milldam Public Affairs, a strategic communications firm serving the data center and hosting businesses, along with a few other technology markets, announced this week that it has introduced a new service through which it will create technical white papers on behalf of data center clients, and partnering with data center focused online publication Data Center Knowledge to do […]
Bluestone Energy’s President writes article for EDC Magazine about retrofit project at Colonnade Hotel
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 […]
Scalability and Capacity Planning – Build vs. Buy
In this whitepaper written for Data Center Knowledge and Cyrus One, the issues that arise when planning for growth of Information Technology infrastructure are explored. The paper explains how colocation of data centers can provide scalability, enabling users to modify capacity quickly to meet fluctuating demand. Read the full Whitepaper here.
Hurricane Electric’s Owen DeLong writes an article for Data Center Knowledge on IPv6 Adpotion
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 Gabriel Andreson writes article for EDC Magazine about how to evaluate LED Technologies
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 writes piece for infoTECH Spotlight about cooling the cloud
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 Helps the 495 Business Center Reduce its Carbon Footprint and Save Over 800,000 Kilowatt Hours per Year
Lighting improvements slash energy consumption at Capital Commercial Investments portfolio property; large utility incentive creates one-year ROI NORWELL, Mass.–August 10, 2011(BUSINESS WIRE)–Bluestone Energy Services, LLC, a leader in energy conservation engineering and project development services for industrial and commercial clients, announced today that its lighting project for the 495 Business Center will provide an 800,000 kWh reduction in annual electrical consumption – exceeding original savings estimates. “We look forward to partnering with Bluestone Energy on […]
Future Facilities engineering and product manager Akhil Docca interviewed for article in CIO Magazine
At the DatacenterDynamics conference in San Francisco last week, Intel presented results from a proof-of-concept it conducted with Future Facilities, which develops CFD (computational fluid dynamics) software for simulating airflow. The test showed that the on-chip sensors allow CFD tools to model more accurately how air is moving in a data center, and also to predict more accurately how new IT equipment will affect airflow, said Akhil Docca, engineering and product manager at Future Facilities. […]
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