Data Center Diaries
by Beth Bacheldor
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Greenpeace questions the green in clouds

That apple ain’t green.
Greening up data centers could matter

Does green really make a difference?
Mind-blowing data centers

Check out these stats and facts from the biggest, greenest, safest and strangest data centers.
North American companies give cloud the most business

Where in the world are data center services booming?
Google bests itself on PUE

Google data center down – in PUE
Modern data center borrows medieval security tactics

Hope you can swim evildoers
AC vs. DC in a battle for data center efficiency

Battle of the Currents: AC vs. DC
Cloud improves data centers

Want a better data center? Try a little cloud.
Lackluster cloud demand kills a data center

Killer clouds for this data center
Cisco wants to light up data centers

Data centers may soon see the light

Big government getting smaller, at least in data centers

The Defense Department hopes to save as much as $680 million by 2015, thanks to data center consolidation.

By Beth Bacheldor

Specifically, the Defense Department says it could achieve annual savings of $58 million in energy costs, $511 million in aggregate data center building operational costs, and $111 million in construction costs by fiscal year 2015. Of course, those savings do not include upfront costs needed for consolidation, such as capital investments for new infrastructure, application migration, software and data center infrastructure as well as increased operational costs for more state-of-the-art data centers.

Beth Bacheldor is a freelance writer and editor with more than 20 years' experience, with much of that time covering the high-tech and IT industries. She has worked for numerous publications covering nearly every type of business technology, including IT outsourcing, data center operations, RFID, information security, systems management, networking, business intelligence, and enterprise applications such as enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, and supply chain management . She has written for such publications as CIO.com, Network Computing, EdTech Magazine, Government Computer News, RFID Journal and many others. She has also written research reports for companies such as Computer Economics and Enterprise Management Associates. She spent more than a decade as a news editor and writer for InformationWeek and CommunicationsWeek. She lives by the sea in southeastern North Carolina with her two children.