Some interesting stories among today’s collection of Green IT links. First, shrinking state budgets could shave an impact on their ability to attract big data center operators if incentive programs get slashed. It’s a situation that could have a profound effect on North Carolina, which has become the East Coast epicenter of data center growth. […]
Flash cache appliance maker Violin Memory bags $35 million
Flash memory companies continue to rake in the investment funds. Among them is Violin Memory, which today announced that it had raised $35 million in Series B funding led by Toshiba and Juniper Networks. Toshiba, like Samsung, has been seeding the market for its own flash memory chips by investing in startups that are dependent […]
Can green Kickstarter projects succeed?
Kickstarter’s on fire. Notable funding successes include Diaspora, C-Loop and TikTok+LunaTik, the swank watch bands for the new iPod Nano that caused a stir in the blogosphere late last year. Some Kickstarter-funded films even made it to Sundance and two took home honors. The innovative service leverages the web and social media to help artists […]
Top 10: SunRun ranks the greenest stadiums in the U.S.
Just in time for the Super Bowl, SunRun, the San Francisco-based home solar financing and installation startup has ranked the ten greenest stadiums in the U.S. Though Cowboys Stadium, this year’s home to the big game, didn’t top the list, it made a strong showing nonetheless. Instead, the number 1 spot goes to Qwest Field, […]
Social Sustainability: Because saving the planet is a group effort
If you haven’t been following Tom Raftery, well you should. Also, you missed a pretty significant development in regards to his blog, in my view at least. He re-branded it to train the focus on Social Sustainability. And his timing couldn’t be better. It’s a topic that could use more coverage. I even dabbled in […]
The 10-year server?
How many of your servers have been around for a decade? Not many, it’s safe to assume. (None ideally.) Chances are that the servers you deployed in 2001 were replaced 3-5 years later. And if there are a couple stragglers still around, they’re costing you a bundle in electricity and rack space. Fortunately, longevity is […]
Mark Monroe heads The Green Grid, expands data center sustainability mission
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 […]
Telepresence today: SAP’s sustainability council is allergic to air travel
Or at least it’s growing highly averse to it. And considering the state of teleconferencing tech today and its potential to cut carbon emissions, good for them. SAP, which is making a serious push to reduce its environmental impact and help other organizations measure and reduce theirs, relies primarily on teleconferencing technologies to conduct its […]
ecoSocial: Look who’s Tweetin’ – Jan. 2011
From green building gurus and Green IT benchmarking services and eco-friendly spa robes to data center power distribution and much more, here are ten of the latest folks on Twitter that have added @ecoINSITE to their watch list and earned a follow in return. Enjoy! @mgualtieri – Mike Gualtieri Forrester’s go-to guy for Architecture, Design, […]
NYC, IBM to leverage cloud, supercomputing for green buildings
There’s Green IT and there’s IT that greens. The City of New York, IBM, Columbia University, Polytechnic Institute of NYU and City University of New York have teamed up to turn the Big Apple into a mecca for sustainable structures. In establishing the NYC Urban Technology Innovation Center, which will reside in Columbia University, the […]
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