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SiCortex – Green, Open Source High Performance Computing

May 14, 2009 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

Curious about the vendor mentioned in the story about the new computers used by Royal Military College of Canada aircraft engineers, I pointed by browser to Maynard, MA-based SiCortex. I’m glad I did… Befitting the affinity many scientists and researchers…

Filed Under: Green IT Tagged With: Green IT, high performance computing, HPC, Linux, open source, SiCortex

Green IT News Roundup – Thursday, May 14

May 14, 2009 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

Oracle Snaps Up Virtual Iron, Plans Virtualization Push – ChannelWeb Oracle said Virtual Iron’s dynamic resource and capacity management technology complements the core features of Oracle VM by providing tools for capacity management, power management and easy virtualization integration with…

Filed Under: Green IT Tagged With: computer, Green IT, Linux, notebook, Oracle, PC, server, solid-state drive, SSD, Virtual Iron, Virtualization

IBM: Mainframes are Green, Really

May 14, 2009 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

On the surface, it would seem counterintuitive to consider mainframes–the hulking computing flagships of IT–as a green technology. But that’s exactly IBM’s message and it does have its merits. While you may have to make some accommodations in you datacenter…

Filed Under: Green IT, Servers Tagged With: datacenter, energy efficiency, IBM, Linux, mainframe, server consolidation, server virtualization, System z, Virtualization

Webcast: What's New in VMware vSphere 4: Storage

May 13, 2009 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

…a.k.a: something to do during the Twitter (planned) outage of ’09. If you’ve been curious about vSphere, particularly what the private cloud-building platform means for your storage infrastructure, then the VMware Communities Roundtable has just the audio webcast/podcast for you….

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: podcast, Storage, VMware, vSphere, webcast

Korea Invests $3.38 billion in Green IT, Blazing Fast Internet

May 13, 2009 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

South Korea gets it. Super fast broadband, Green IT initiatives and cloud computing (plus a dash of open source) go hand in hand. This Korea Times report, has some details on what the country has in store for the $3.38…

Filed Under: Green IT Tagged With: broadband, Cloud Computing, Green IT, internet, Korea

LSI Paves Way for Greener GbE Switching

May 13, 2009 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

LSI has new chips that promise substantial energy savings in network switching, up to 30 percent if the company’s estimates hold true. The company’s new gigabit Ethernet (GbE) PHY silicon is “the industry’s lowest-power GbE technology in the smallest size,”…

Filed Under: Green IT Tagged With: GbE, LSI, network, switch

Event Watch: SANS WhatWorks in Virtualization Security Summit

May 13, 2009 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

If you have lingering questions and concerns about the state of virtualization security, SANS is putting on just the conference for you. SANS WhatWorks in Virtualization Security Summit takes place in August 17-18 at the Fairmont in Washington DC. Here’s…

Filed Under: Virtualization Tagged With: conference, event, SANS, security, summit, Virtualization

Green IT News Roundup – Wednesday, May 13

May 13, 2009 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

Using power management techniques to green your IT department – TechRepublic In 2007, IT consulting company EDS demonstrated it was socially responsible by complying with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) ENERGY STAR specifications for reducing computer energy use. In…

Filed Under: Green IT Tagged With: blades, Data Center, datacenter, Green IT, green technology, network, News

Cleantech: Solar Manufacturing Shining in the U.S.

May 12, 2009 by Pedro Hernandez 1 Comment

The United States is becoming a hot bed of solar manufacturing activity, no pun intended. And it’s not only the American companies that are enjoying the perks of being a cleantech and renewable energy concern. Companies based in other countries…

Filed Under: Cleantech & Renewable Energy Tagged With: cleantech, manufacturing, renewable energy, Schott, solar panels, Suntech

SAP Releases 2008 Sustainability Report

May 12, 2009 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

I’m always curious to see if companies that push Green IT indeed practice what they preach. SAP, which recently made a curious move into environmental impact reporting software, just published its 2008 sustainability report, complete with its own URL. Unlike…

Filed Under: Green IT, Stats & Figures Tagged With: carbon footprint, Data Center, datacenter, SAP, sustainability, thin client, Virtualization

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