Going Green By Increasing Power Consumption

This past weekend’s New York Times expose on the environmental dangers posed by data centers downplayed a major challenge facing all “green” initiatives. Data center architects are pushed today to balance reduced carbon footprint against many other factors, namely maintaining user experience. Case in point was a survey last winter of federal CIOs consolidating their [...]

WAN Optimization: Balancing Green with the Need for Speed

Ah, data center consolidation: the vehicle by which today’s businesses may achieve “Green” status. The many Green benefits of data center consolidation have been hashed and rehashed, blogged about and discussed, hailed and revered so much so that they are forever burned into our minds to the point where even the government has gone out [...]

Going Green for Green

It’s April 15 again, and to every adult citizen of the U.S. that means one thing – income tax deadline! This year, individual taxpayers get a reprieve of a few days, until Monday, April 18, to file their taxes because Washington D.C. celebrates Emancipation Day today. Meanwhile, businesses across the country still have a few [...]