Green Data Center is a standard

I’ve been blogging about Green Data Center for 3 years and been discussing the concept for a bit longer.  When I started blogging about green data centers it was hard to find content I could reference.  Now there is so much out there, I can be selective on what to blog about.

Here is one example of how times have changed.  ZDnet blogger David Chernicoff has a blog called Five Nines: The Next Generation Data Center and here are his latest posts.  Look at all the green data center related topics he discusses.

Five Nines: The Next Gen Datacenter

David Chernicoff

About Five Nines: The Next Gen Datacenter

David Chernicoff looks at technologies that impact data center users and operators, including server consolidation and virtualization, green IT, and the latest hardware advances.

• How does a new datacenter benefit the community?

  By David Chernicoff | August 30, 2010, 6:29am PDT

  IT people know what a datacenter is and just what it takes to keep one up and running. But what do the local communities (and their politicians) competing for these new datacenters think they are...

• Does Geothermal Cooling Make Sense for your Datacenter?

  By David Chernicoff | August 26, 2010, 6:53am PDT

  It’s cold down in the basement. Why don’t we keep our servers there?

• Random freeze problem chills Windows Server 2008 R2 / Windows 7

  By David Chernicoff | August 24, 2010, 11:24am PDT

  Seeing some odd behavior with your Windows Server 2008 R2 installation? There might well be a good reason for it.

• Purdue experience shows value of out of the box datacenter thinking

  By David Chernicoff | August 20, 2010, 11:51am PDT

  An off the wall thought to use capabilities already at hand saves millions of compute hours at Purdue University

• What the Dell 3Par deal means to the datacenter

  By David Chernicoff | August 17, 2010, 9:49am PDT

  Does the “one stop shopping” experience make sense to the datacenter buyer?

• Green power means greener computing, but is it enough?

  By David Chernicoff | August 13, 2010, 12:47pm PDT

  Does “green” change your purchasing decisions?

• Sun's Datacenter container - forgotten, but not gone

  By David Chernicoff | August 11, 2010, 8:40am PDT

  From a leader in the modular datacenter market to an afterthought. Does Oracle have a clue?

• No Surprise: Green Sells

  By David Chernicoff | August 6, 2010, 9:09am PDT

  Green datacenters are the future. So does this come as a surprise?

• Solar-powered datacenter?

  By David Chernicoff | August 5, 2010, 11:27am PDT

  Does a small, carbon neutral, datacenter have value?

• VMware improves their virtualized application monitoring

  By David Chernicoff | August 4, 2010, 6:40am PDT

  Proactive management of virtualized applications is a key component of cloud success

In David’s post  on No Suprise: Green Sells.

For now, “green” is a sales buzzword almost as compelling as “cloud.”  But it will soon enough be simply another expectation and no longer a differentiator.