Testing the ability of positive reinforcement to effect change, HP is trying to help PC users go green with a novel little software widget for Windows desktops. HP’s Power to Change widget encourages users to turn off their PC’s…
Green IT News Roundup – Tuesday, June 2
Thomson Reuters reduces storage sprawl to save money, increase quality 2009 InfoWorld CTO 25 Awards: Christopher Crowhurst – InfoWorld The server virtualization — paid for by the storage optimization savings — did more than consolidate servers. After five months,…
AMD Opteron 2435 – Six Cores Made for Virtualization
Reviewers are starting to get their mitts on AMD’s six-core “Istanbul” server chip and the news looks good from a virtualization standpoint. Anandtech found that while slower than some Intel Xeons, the platform’s affinity to virtualization, power savings and cost…
Green IT News Roundup – Monday, June 1
Few Rules for Recycling Electronics – Green Inc. NYT Blogs As noted in a report from the Government Accountability Office for the House Foreign Affairs Committee last August, the United States remains notoriously lax in its regulation of electronics waste…
New IBM Datacenter to Cut Power Consumption by 50 Percent
IBM is building a new datacenter at Syracuse University from the ground up and it’s using the opportunity to install power generation and HVAC equipment that would be impractical in all but the most extensive overhauls. One piece of…
Green IT News Roundup – Thursday, May 28
Security and regulatory concerns slow some server virtualization efforts – Network World There’s awe in the instantaneous speed that VMware offers in set up and tear down of VMs but worry about potential abuse of that power, too, deliberate or…
Sun Gives Entry Level Storage a Dash of Flash
Sun is adding oomph to entry-level enterprise storage arrays with solid-state drives. Not to worry, the flash-packing storage devices play a supplementary role in the Sun Storage 7310, acting more like cache to improve performance. That cache can swell up…
Datacenter Operators Planning for Economy, Energy Efficiency
IT managers are feeling the economic pinch and they’re planning accordingly. Thirty-five percent of the 120 data center, facility and IT managers polled in Emerson Network Power’s Data Center Users Group (DCUG) survey have delayed plans to expand or build…
Green IT News Roundup – Wednesday, May 27
Virtualizing the server is great, but what about network I/O virtualization? – InfoWorld InfoWorld: For those of us who are new to this, tell us what are the current approaches to performing network I/O virtualization? Neugebauer: Methods traditionally include using…
Virtualization and IPTV Meet at Microsoft Mediaroom
Datacenters as broadcasters? Not as far-fetched as it would have seemed a scant couple of years ago. If Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) services like AT&T U-verse take off in the U.S., where subscribers expect home theater quality HD video and…
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