Well, that didn’t take long. VMware made a splash last week by outlining its private cloud vision. Today, Microsoft got in on the act. During the Microsoft Management Summit this week, Microsoft reiterated the role of cloud computing and virtualization…
Verizon Expands Remote Backup and Restore Service: Model for Green Business Continuity?
One way to save money on an off-site backup infrastructure, plus the associated energy and management costs, is to pay a subscription fee to a firm that has already gone and built its share of geographically distributed datacenters. In Verizon’s…
Green IT News Roundup – Tuesday, April 28
Intel tops green power purchasing list – BusinessGreen.com Computer chip giant Intel has retained its title as the largest purchaser of renewable energy in the US, topping the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) latest list of green power purchasers after buying…
OCZ Silencer 910: 80-Plus Was a Mere Suggestion
When it comes to high efficiency power supplies, 80-plus is so last year. OCZ joins other computer component makers in surpassing the 80-plus efficiency mark. OCZ’s Silencer 910, which cranks out an impressive 910 watts at 88 percent efficiency is…
LED Backlighting Going (Business) Mainstream
Energy saving LED backlights have been popping up in Apple notebooks, a smattering of netbooks and some high-end HDTV displays. But today, the technology debuted on the business notebook thanks to HP. Starting at $529, HP’s ProBook S series of…
Green IT News Roundup – Monday, April 27
Lowering data center cooling costs with airflow modeling and perforated raised-floor tiles – SearchDataCenter.com An Uptime Institute study of 19 computer rooms with a total of 204,000 square feet determined that most facilities are ill prepared to remove current heat…
Eizo Nanao Monitors Detect Humans, Go to Sleep When You Leave
Eizo Nanao has incorporated motion sensors called EcoView Sense in two new Flexscan monitors that detect when a user gets up. After 40 seconds, it go into power saving mode. Clever! The EPEAT Gold-rated displays, EV2023W-H and EV2303W-T, go on…
Green IT News Roundup – Thursday, April 23
Go green: Turn off your computer with your iPhone/iPod Touch – CrunchGear Why didn’t any of us think of this? The creator of a VLC controller app for the iPhone has just released a clever little app that turns off…
AMD Istanbul: 6-Core Roadmap to Greener Datacenters
Today’s new quad-core Opteron EE is just the start… It’s Opteron’s sixth birthday, and the chip wars just got interesting again. Sure, the company just launched a power-sipping, quad-core Shanghai chip (more on that later) but the latest salvo was…
Green IT News Roundup – Wednesday, April 22
U.S. Navy enlists virtualization to supercharge sprawling intranet – InfoWorld The task of virtualizing NMCI’s network fell to Hewlett-Packard’s EDS subsidiary, which has managed the system for the Navy since 2001. EDS has thus far consolidated 2,000 of the Navy’s…
