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2008-01-11T13:40:12-08:00

As 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...

Sustainable IT

2007-11-01T12:19:35-07:00

We 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.

Turns out, you don’t know what you don’t know. Really.

2007-11-01T12:18:15-07:00

So 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...

Second-Sourcing Makes the World Go 'Round

2007-09-06T09:49:45-07:00

Technology 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....

Finding the Energy Efficiency Balance

2007-06-19T07:22:43-07:00

The 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...

No, This is Not My Car

2007-05-04T10:26:00-07:00

Here 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....

Power-Hungry Data Centers Demand Memory Innovations

2007-04-17T16:42:24-07:00

It 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...

Power Demands of Data Centers Require Memory Innovations

2007-04-17T11:40:15-07:00

The 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,...

Micron Joins the Green Grid

2007-04-17T10:58:00-07:00

The 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...

What’s the Next Step to Power Savings?

2007-04-16T13:10:00-07:00

Last 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...