IT sustainability strategies: Why enterprises need to start with the datacenter when going green

Staff Writer/ October 23, 2022/ Best practices for data center operations, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Datacentre energy efficiency and green IT, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Tech Partner's Curated Content

Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesEnterprises are under pressure to curb their carbon emissions and become more environmentally friendly entities on multiple fronts, including in the datacenter. By Mark Samuels Let’s be clear: we face a climate emergency. The United Nations says the world needs to reduce emissions by 7.6% every year through 2030 to prevent potentially catastrophic global warming beyond 1.5°C – and producers and consumers

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HPE ProLiant RL300 Servers with Ampere Cloud-Native Silicon Launched

Tekmart Data Center Team/ July 6, 2022/ Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Best practices for data center operations, Computer Storage Hardware, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Data Center Hardware Terminology, Data Centre Hardware Equipment Technical Resources, Data Centre Servers, Datacenter Hardware Trends, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Datacentre energy efficiency and green IT, Datacentre systems management, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Partner Content, Partner Presentations, Partner Resources, Server Hardware, Tech Partner's Curated Content, Tekmart Partner Content

Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesHewlett Packard Enterprise has announced a new line of cloud-native compute solutions powered by Ampere Altra and Ampere Altra Max cloud-native processors. Post courtesy of: Harold Fritts With the new ARM-based HPE ProLiant RL300 server line, the company is targeting service providers and enterprises that are embracing cloud-native development. HPE ProLiant RL300 Gen11 The new HPE ProLiant RL300 Gen11 server

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Incorporating circular economy principles into IT procurement

Tekmart Data Center Team/ June 12, 2022/ Best practices for data center operations, CEO Quick Reads, CIO Resources, circular economies, CTOs Quick Reads, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Datacentre energy efficiency and green IT, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice

Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesWith sustainability moving up the boardroom agenda, CIOs and IT managers should look to revamp their IT procurement strategies to align with the principles of the circular economy, but where should they start? By Craig Melson Enterprise CIOs and IT managers who want to revamp their procurement processes to align with the principles of the circular economy need to start

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Holistic circular economies needed by IT departments to fight climate change.

Staff Writer/ June 12, 2022/ Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Best practices for data center operations, circular economies, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Data center ops, monitoring and management, Data Center Outsourcing (DCO), Datacenter Infrastructure News, Datacentre cooling infrastructure, Datacentre energy efficiency and green IT, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, IT compliance and governance strategies, IT Managed Services, IT Management

Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesWith sustainability moving up the boardroom agenda, IT managers should revamp procurement strategies to align with the principles of the circular economy, but what does this mean for managing the IT lifecycle? By Sebastian Klovig Skelton Enterprises must build holistic circular economies around their operations to address every source of emissions and waste if the IT sector is to tackle

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What is carbon offset?-definition, footprints and how this works.

Staff Writer/ May 15, 2022/ Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Best practices for data center operations, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Datacentre energy efficiency and green IT, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Tech Definition Updates, Technical Explanations, WHY??: Explanations on data center hardware

Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesA carbon offset is a credit that a person or organization can buy to decrease its carbon footprint. When the number of carbon offset credits obtained is equal to an individual or organization’s carbon footprint, that person or organization is carbon-neutral. By Ben Lutkevich Revenue generated from the purchase of carbon offsets is often — but not always — invested in

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) pledge to extend life of servers might inspire other cloud firms to follow suit.

Tekmart Data Center Team/ May 15, 2022/ Best practices for data center operations, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Data centre networking, Data Centre Servers, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Datacentre energy efficiency and green IT, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Infrastructure in the Data Centre, Tech Partner's Curated Content

Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesAmazon’s recent announcement to extend the useful life of its datacentre equipment has been deemed a positive decision for the cloud computing giant, but will other companies adopt this cost-saving and sustainability strategy? By Nicholas Fearn Amazon Web Services (AWS) made a surprise announcement during its February 2022 financial results about its plans to extend the useful life of the servers powering

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What is the meaning of ITAD acronym as used in the IT indsutry?

Tekmart Data Center Team/ May 10, 2022/ ‘New Normal’ courtesy of Covid-19, Batting for Tech in the Covid-19 Times, Best practices for data center operations, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Datacentre energy efficiency and green IT, Engage the experts, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Tech Definitions

Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesIT asset disposition (ITAD) is an industry term and practice built around reusing, recycling, repurposing, repairing or disposing of unwanted IT equipment in a safe and environmentally responsible way. By Alexander S. Gillis An IT organization can practice IT asset disposition itself or have a specialized vendor handle it. Instead of ending up as electronic waste, or e-waste, in a landfill,

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8 (eight) of the best green computing practices

Tekmart Data Center Team/ September 27, 2021/ Best practices for data center operations, Data center design and facilities, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Data center systems management, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Datacentre cooling infrastructure, Datacentre energy efficiency and green IT, Datacentre performance troubleshooting, monitoring and optimisation, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, IT infrastructure management and planning

Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesAs climate change becomes a more pressing issue, these sustainability best practices can help your data center go greener, which benefits both your business and the environment. By Julia Borgini Making a data center more environmentally friendly means studying your facility’s power and resource usage and learning what potential changes can make a difference. You can take steps such as

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What is Remaining Rated Write Endurance in SSDs technical definition parlance?

Tekmart EMC Enterprise Storage Team/ July 25, 2021/ Best practices for data center operations, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Data center systems management, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Datacentre energy efficiency and green IT, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Tekmart Enterprise Hardware Tips, Tekmart Support: Storage Systems' Implementation Tutorials

Reading Time-approximately: 7 minutesWrite endurance is the number of program/erase (P/E cycles) that can be applied to a block of flash memory before the storage media becomes unreliable. By Tekmart Africa Enterprise Support Team The Remaining Rated Write Endurance Threshold feature is supported on PCIe and SAS/SATA SSDs. The Remaining Rated Write Endurance Threshold feature provides added feature functionality in managing the threshold level

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Five ways to boost systems utilisation in the datacentre

Tekmart Data Center Team/ June 16, 2021/ Best practices for data center operations, Data center facilities, Data Center Hardware, Datacenter Infrastructure News, Datacentre energy efficiency and green IT, Expert Advise and Opinion, Industry News and Expert Advice, Infrastructure in the Data Centre, Timeless Aricles

Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesDatacentre operators are always looking for ways to cut costs and improve the efficiency of their facilities. Here we ask the experts for their top five tips for reducing the operating costs of running a server farm By Fleur Doidge Top concerns for datacentre operators are ensuring their facilities are operating as efficiently as possible from a cost, energy consumption

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