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, [...]
Read more Five years of EPEAT
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
Since we have the technology to put on virtual events, it’s nice to see some folks using it to promote green agendas without requiring attendees to hop on a plane and enlarge their carbon footprints. Next week on Tuesday, April 19, 2011, BrightTALK’s Data Center community will be the online venue for the Sustainable IT [...]
Read more Calendar marked: Sustainable IT Summit at BrightTALK
Some significant changes this week at The Green Grid. Mark Monroe, a Sun veteran and a Center for ReSource Conservation board member, will be taking over as Executive Director following the departure of Larry Vertal from the post. The appointment also marks a subtle but important shift in the group’s mission. Though energy efficient IT [...]
Read more Mark Monroe heads The Green Grid, expands data center sustainability mission
Can you guess what industry lays claim to that energy consumption stat? It’s the telecom industry, specifically the 16,000 legacy TDM (time-division multiplexing) phone switches in the U.S. and Canada, which account for 15 terawatts of juice yearly or “roughly 0.4% of all electricity used in those two countries,” according to of Access Venture Partners’ [...]
Today: Time bestows its top 20 Green Tech list; Juniper snaps up a cloud security firm; and if you’re not deduping, you must like throwing money away. Top 20 Green Tech Ideas – Time E-waste, Green IT, smart meters… They all make the list. Cisco rival Juniper buys ‘cloud’ security software maker Altor for $95M [...]
Read more Green IT News Roundup – Tues., Dec. 7
Today: EMC unveils cloud and virtualization certs; networking equipment makers jump on the green bandwagon; and low-power flash memory is poised to blow up big in the enterprise. Cloud Computing and Virtualization Certifications You Can’t Ignore – IT Business Edge EMC to IT job seekers: Get your certs here! IT networking gear goes green – [...]
Read more Green IT News Roundup – Mon., Dec. 6
Today: Server Technology’s Sentry Power Manager cures data center power consumption blindness; Cerelink encourages Hollywood effects houses to consider the cloud; and seven data center design techniques that are sure to become the hallmarks of energy efficient builds. Intelligent Power Monitoring – Processor A look at Sentry Power Manager from Server Technology and how it [...]
Read more Green IT News Roundup – Fri., Dec. 3
Today: Rumblings that Microsoft is getting its VDI act together; Micron readies improved SSD error correction as die sizes shrink; and LEDs in the enterprise to grow to a $1 billion a year business by 2014. In 2011, will Microsoft muscle in on virtual desktops too? – TechTarget Already neck deep in battling virtualization vendors [...]
Read more Green IT News Roundup – Thurs., Dec. 2
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