Happy Earth Day! Things have been kinda slow around here, mostly due to my commitments over at sites like eWEEK and Datamation and an ongoing (if glacially paced) upgrade to this blog. But it’s Earth Day, and it would be criminal for this Green IT blogger to not chime in. This year, as we face [...]
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When will servers powered by Calxeda’s ARM-based EnergyCore SoC finally start to appear in data center racks? Soon, according to Karl Freund, the vice president of marketing for the technology startup. But you may not even realize it, and that suits the company just fine, at least in the near term. In a few short years, Calxeda [...]
Read more Calxeda’s ARM-based EnergyCore SoC coming soon to a data center near you
ARM is getting a lot of attention lately. The chip designer, whose energy efficient processor technology powers the vast majority of the world’s smartphones and tablets, is benefiting greatly from the popularity of the iPad and other ARM-based devices. Even Microsoft, a long-time x86 devotee, has jumped on the ARM bandwagon for its Windows RT operating system [...]
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Cloud services providers are making enormous strides in data center efficiency. Take, for instance, Microsoft. “Today, Microsoft delivers more than 200 online services to 1+ billion customers and 20 million businesses in over 76 markets worldwide,” posts Brian Janous, Utility Architect, Data Center Advanced Development, at the Microsoft Global Foundations Services Blog. And that takes a lot of [...]
Read more Despite green advances, cloud data centers dogged by dirty diesel
Kudos, Apple! Recently, Apple pulled out of the EPEAT, to the shock and dismay of people like federal IT buyers that are required to use the green computer registry to guide their purchasing decisions. The move also didn’t help Apple’s reputation when it comes to sustainability, which recently came under assault by Greenpeace. Today, Apple [...]
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Between keeping customers happy and balancing the books, the electric bill is usually the last thing on a small business owners’ mind. Until it arrives each month, that is. There’s little you can do about it if you use manufacturing equipment, for instance. But your PCs can help lessen your overall energy use with a [...]
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Remember all that hubbub about Apple’s “dirty cloud” data center in Maiden, N.C.? Long story short, Greenpeace released a scathing report on the state of cloud data centers and their detrimental effects on the environment. Though some companies got a pass — Facebook, Yahoo and Google, mainly — others like Apple were raked over the coals [...]
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While conducting some research on Facebook’s upcoming IPO, I ended up on the Open Compute Project (OCP) website (Facebook’s a member). It turns out that a lot has been happening in the past several months, and most of it is great news for the future of energy efficient data centers and cloud infrastructures. Unfortunately, it [...]
When it comes to server efficiency, there are companies like Calxeda and SeaMicro — which was just acquired by AMD — that pack hundreds of low-power CPUs into servers that can handle massive workloads under relatively meager power requirements. But what about the standard, run of the mill box? It looks like Intel’s newest Xeons, [...]
The city of Indianola, Iowa isn’t the only municipal government that’s reducing paper waste by using iPads. The city of Vancouver, Washington is also saving lots of cash — and trees — by switching 54 city employees to Apple’s tablet. According to this post in The Verge, the city has cut printing for council meetings [...]
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