Underscoring how young the green computing movement is, Earth Techling has a great interview with EPEAT’s Director of Outreach and Communications, Sarah O’Brien, about the organization’s publication of its fifth annual report. O’Brien shares a nice anecdote about how far EPEAT’s come. Well, in our first year no products could meet the gold level. Leading companies like Apple, [...]
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Today’s impressive statistic comes courtesy of this Computerworld article that explores how the defense contractor is cutting energy costs, to the tune of ”$23 million in annual savings” in 2010 with a host of energy efficient IT strategies. One of the ways the IT sustainability pros at Raytheon are achieving this is by taking a [...]
Read more Raytheon saves 30 percent in IT energy costs by raising temps
Some data center doings in today’s roundup. AOL flips the switch on its “lights out” data center; SmartCube emerges as a low-cost container player in its native Brazil; and is virtualization hamstrung by storage infrastructures? Also, Tesla makes Panasonic the official supplier of batteries for its Model S and GM bets big on recycling. AOL [...]
Read more Today’s 10: AOL goes ‘unmanned’ for new data center
The Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Jaguar supercomputer is undergoing a $97 million upgrade that will not only result in a name change — soon to be known as “Titan” — but also stands a good chance of ruling the Top500 list of supercomputers when it’s complete in 2012. If and when that occurs, they’ll have graphics [...]
Read more NVIDIA GPUs, AMD CPUs for faster supercomputer at Oak Ridge
Lately: A look at how Amazon’s Kindle Fire browser, Silk, could further blur the lines between the cloud and mobile devices. Google boosts its support for residential solar – with its checkbook, of course. Iceland hopes to lure data center operators with its chill, renewables-friendly ways. Also, Intel readies new Atoms as it works to unseat [...]
Read more Today’s 10: Amazon’s Silk road to cloud domination
Personally, I find gnomes more than a little creepy. But here’s one that I wouldn’t mind tending to my garden (if I had one). Commercial water management firm ET Water Systems, is out to help consumers save on their water bills and prevent damage to their plants from over-watering. With the release of Gnome, a [...]
Read more ET Water’s (garden) Gnome web app brings smart water management home
Though it pulled the plug on PowerMeter, Google’s still bullish on green technology. Today, two must-read links offer a glimpse into the company’s interest in cleantech, notably its market potential. But it will be all for naught if the public remain disinterested in the climate sciences. Luckily, Google’s tackling that, too. Google: Delaying Clean Energy [...]
Read more Top 10 Twitter Tuesday Edition: Google views clean energy as an economic engine
Today: Facebook discovers that its servers can take the heat resulting in cold aisles that are anything but. Also, Feds grab Instapaper’s server; startups take aim at cloud-unfriendly relational databases; and SolidFire plans SSD arrays that it says will (paradoxically) lead to lower data storage costs. Intriguing! All that, plus IBM’s HUGE energy savings in [...]
Read more Today’s 10 – Facebook gives new meaning to cold aisles
Today, some rumblings indicate that notebook manufacturers may be falling out of love with Intel and into ARM’s, well, arms! SemiAccurate has an interesting analysis that points to some potentially interesting tech coming from ARM and AMD. Also, cloud security and disaster recovery are attracting talent and attention; Microsoft’s looking beyond single-server virtualization; and Google [...]
It takes a lot of fuel to keep the U.S. military going, a fact that’s not lost on the Department of Defense (DoD). So the agency has crafted a plan called the “Operational Energy Strategy” that aims to dramatically improve efficiency and produce it own sources of energy — which includes renewables — both at [...]
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