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  • Research supports claim that cloud is energy efficient

    A new report has added further to the debate as to whether cloud computing is a greener approach to running data centres. A survey by Pike Research has indicated that the energy savings of cloud computing are "substantial".

    Written by Maxwell Cooter10 Dec. 10 11:00
  • Greenpeace rates climate-change leaders and laggards

    Greenpeace International released the fourth version of its "Cool IT Leaderboard" on Tuesday, and Cisco, Ericsson and Fujitsu ranked atop the list of 17 global high-tech companies.

    Written by Thomas Wailgum10 Dec. 10 05:12
  • SGI offers air-cooled modular data center

    SGI has launched a modular data center that uses outside air instead of chilled water to cool the IT gear inside, making it highly energy efficient, the company said Monday.

    Written by James Niccolai07 Dec. 10 12:57
  • IT networking gear goes green

    Servers get most of the glory when it comes to energy management, but networking gear is about to catch up.

    Written by Robert L. Mitchell07 Dec. 10 05:07
  • After PUE, Green Grid creates metrics for carbon and water

    The Green Grid consortium, which developed the widely used PUE metric for measuring energy efficiency in data centers, is developing two more metrics to address carbon emissions and water usage, it said Thursday.

    Written by James Niccolai and Peter Sayer03 Dec. 10 04:27
  • Green IT: Train staff to think about sustainability

    Frederic Chanfrau, senior vice president of IT for governance, quality and vendor management with Schneider Electric, wants everyone in the company's IT organization to understand three points about going green. First, that energy demands are increasing at the same time as the company must decrease its greenhouse gas emissions; next, that each employee is responsible for helping address this challenge; and finally, that running a sustainable technology shop doesn't necessarily cost more. "They can put their own stone in the building of a greener IT organization," Chanfrau says. But they have to know how.

    Written by Elana Varon25 Nov. 10 02:53
  • IBM tops Green500 list

    While China can take pride in topping the list of the world's most powerful supercomputers, IBM has been given another recognition: building the world's most energy-efficient supercomputer.

    Written by Joab Jackson19 Nov. 10 11:16
  • Microsoft claims cloud computing does cut carbon emissions

    The thorny question of carbon emissions from cloud computing has raised its head again. There's been plenty of debate as to whether cloud computing is good or bad at curbing carbon emissions.

    Written by Maxwell Cooter09 Nov. 10 01:31
  • Cisco bets state-of-the-art data center on UCS

    Cisco bet big on its UCS products for data centers – and now it's going "all in" with a massive, resilient and green data center built on that integrated blade architecture.

    Written by John Dix09 Nov. 10 02:06
  • Green gadget chargers go massive

    Markets for advanced charging technologies (including solar-powered handsets, solar chargers, wireless power units, fuel-cell battery charging products and public charging kiosks), worth about $1.5 billion in 2010, are forecast to grow at a robust Compound Annual Growth Rate of more than 86 percent to exceed $34 billion in 2015.

    Written by Lexton Snol29 Oct. 10 03:40
  • Chip giants investigate more power efficient chip design

    A number of chip manufacturers and European research institutions have banded together to figure out how redesign microprocessors so that they consume less energy when in use and leak less energy when in stand-by mode.

    Written by Joab Jackson28 Oct. 10 02:29
  • Earth Rangers: Focus on virtualization, geothermal power

    "Bring Back the Wild" -- that's the mission of Earth Rangers, an innovative nonprofit organization that works to educate kids about environmental threats. Its goal is to inspire kids -- the "chief inheritors of environmental destruction," as its Web site says -- to become a powerful part of the solution by working to protect endangered species and their habitats.

    Written by Mary Brandel26 Oct. 10 05:35
  • How we picked the Top Green-IT Organizations

    For the third year in a row, Computerworld set out to identify organizations that are implementing smart, efficient strategies to achieve "green IT."

    Written by Ellen Fanning26 Oct. 10 06:05
  • Top 12 Green-IT vendors 2010

    Technology vendors and data center suppliers were also invited to participate in Computerworld's search for the Top Green-IT Organizations. These companies completed the same survey as the end-user organizations and were judged on the same criteria -- most notably, on their IT departments' efforts to reduce energy consumption in their IT equipment, and to use technology to conserve energy and lower carbon emissions. Here are the top 12, in ranked order:

    Written by Computerworld (US) staff26 Oct. 10 05:02
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