Sentilla’s software monitors and manages power consumption in data center equipment including servers, storage devices and air conditioning. But Sentilla is shifting its focus from analyzing data centers’ energy efficiency to monitoring their overall computing efficiency
Sentilla’s chief technology officer Joe Polastre, said cooling would not be a major contributor to data center costs in five years. “In fact, in five years, the temperature in a typical data center will be at least five degrees warmer than it is today,” Polastre said. ENVIRONMENTALLEADER

VYCON, a designer and manufacturer of environmentally friendly, high-speed energy storage flywheel systems, today announced the introduction of its new Hybrid VDC XEB flywheel system. VYCON’s VDC XEB is the industry’s first environmentally friendly energy storage system to combine flywheel technology with batteries in one patent pending integrated system. Now with the combination of batteries, users who need more backup time can utilize the reliability and green aspects of the flywheel system with minutes of extra runtime from the batteries. TMCNET