Energy Efficient Memory Blogtag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-12618242008-01-11T13:40:12-08:00TypePadMore Good Thingstag:typepad.com,2003:post-440289862008-01-11T13:40:12-08:002008-01-11T13:40:12-08:00As you may have heard, Micron recently announced its RealSSD™ family of Solid State Drives (SSDs). Beyond the endurance and reliability bonus that a solid state drive offers over ye olde spinning platters, these drives also offer substantial energy savings...SaveEnergy BloggerSustainable ITtag:typepad.com,2003:post-409794022007-11-01T12:19:35-07:002007-11-01T12:19:35-07:00We recently spent some time talking with Ted Sampson over InfoWorld about the role of Memory in Server power consumption. He writes their Sustainable IT Blog ... Check it out. Kevin Kilbuck, Senior Marketing Manager, Micron Technology, Inc.SaveEnergy BloggerTurns out, you don’t know what you don’t know. Really.tag:typepad.com,2003:post-409795822007-11-01T12:18:15-07:002007-11-01T12:18:15-07:00So we just recently we had a meeting with some of the guys that run the data center here at Micron. One of the topics of discussion was the role of memory as a power consumer in those big-iron systems...SaveEnergy BloggerSecond-Sourcing Makes the World Go 'Roundtag:typepad.com,2003:post-385602272007-09-06T09:49:45-07:002007-09-06T09:49:45-07:00Technology takes time. Moore's Law tells us that. But just how much time it takes for a technology to emerge that is smaller, faster, and better than its predecessor can be dependent on variables that Moore himself could not predict....SaveEnergy BloggerFinding the Energy Efficiency Balancetag:typepad.com,2003:post-355243742007-06-19T07:22:43-07:002007-06-19T07:22:43-07:00The whole point of the focus we're seeing on data center efficiency is because data centers consume so much energy and keep on growing. One of the drivers could be an idea that's been around for awhile: the idea that...SaveEnergy BloggerNo, This is Not My Cartag:typepad.com,2003:post-336626022007-05-04T10:26:00-07:002007-05-04T10:26:00-07:00Here I am blogging about energy efficiency and yet I don't drive a hybrid car. In fact, I don't even drive a high MPG car. Why not? Short answer: My current car has not outlived its useful service life. Yet....SaveEnergy BloggerPower-Hungry Data Centers Demand Memory Innovationstag:typepad.com,2003:post-330088582007-04-17T16:42:24-07:002007-04-17T16:42:24-07:00It might have been at one time that a data center was a collection of servers inside a corporation; servers that do things like your e-mail and the like. But today we've got data centers all over the world, and...SaveEnergy BloggerPower Demands of Data Centers Require Memory Innovationstag:typepad.com,2003:post-330118002007-04-17T11:40:15-07:002007-04-17T11:40:15-07:00The U.S. EPA ENERGY STAR program is conducting a study to assess opportunities for energy efficiency improvements to computer servers and data centers. This is in response to Public Law 109-431, which was passed and signed into law December 20,...SaveEnergy BloggerMicron Joins the Green Gridtag:typepad.com,2003:post-330102682007-04-17T10:58:00-07:002007-04-17T10:58:00-07:00The goal of the Green Grid consortium is to reduce power consumption at computing data centers worldwide. It's a membership made for us. We have a major silicon component in servers. And we have ways of designing those memory modules...SaveEnergy BloggerWhat’s the Next Step to Power Savings?tag:typepad.com,2003:post-330154422007-04-16T13:10:00-07:002007-04-16T13:10:00-07:00Last week I got a letter from my local utility company, offering a great deal on compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulbs. The letter pointed out that if everyone in my town changed ONE incandescent bulb to a CFL, we could...SaveEnergy Blogger