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About that Earth-killing Spam…

April 16, 2009 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

Yesterday, McAfee and ICF shocked us with data that exposed spam’s environmental impact. Jeremy Kaplan at Good Clean Tech isn’t buying it… Business users leave their PCs on all day regardless of whether they’ve finished sorting their inboxes, so…

Filed Under: Green IT Tagged With: energy consumption, McAfee, security, software, spam

HP Fattens Thin Client Portfolio

April 16, 2009 by Pedro Hernandez 1 Comment

If the IT departments within most businesses were honest with themselves, they would realize that few of their employees require a full-blown, stand-alone tower or workstation to get their work done. So why incur the energy, management and maintenance costs?…

Filed Under: Green IT Tagged With: AMD Sempron, AMD Turion, hardware, Hewlett-Packard, HP, HP gt7720, HP t5630w, HP t5730w, software, thin client, VIA Eden, Virtualization, VMware, Windows Embedded, Windows XP Embedded

Online Resources: Uptime Institute

April 16, 2009 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

What does the Uptime Institute do? Their About Us page puts it rather succinctly: Institute research focuses on data center facilities, the IT and facilities interface, and how both functions affect the cost, reliability and energy consumption of computing. Institute…

Filed Under: Green IT Tagged With: Data Center, datacenter, energy efficiency, events, Green IT, Uptime Institute

IT Recyclers in the Spotlight

April 15, 2009 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

Having a hard time finding a someone to handle your company’s old equipment? Processor has put together a profile of four IT recyclers you may want to check out. And if data security is a priority–and it should be–then PA-based…

Filed Under: E-Waste & Recycling, Green IT Tagged With: Classic Computer Recovery, compliance, computer recycling, data security, DMD Systems Recovery, e-waste, IT recycler, Reclamere, Recycle Your Media, recycling, security, service

McAfee Assesses Spam's Environmental Damage

April 15, 2009 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

Spam. We all hate it for obvious reasons, but here’s a new one that really draws an eco-geek’s ire. According to research conducted by McAfee and ICF, every year 33 terawatt hours (TWh) are wasted transmitting, smiting and otherwise dealing…

Filed Under: Green IT, Stats & Figures Tagged With: carbon dioxide, carbon emissions, CO2, CO2 emissions, e-mail, emissions, GHG, greenhouse gas, McAfee, McColo, security, software, spam, terawatt

Sun Releases Intel Xeon 5500 and Flash-packing Blades, Servers

April 14, 2009 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

Sun Fire X4270 Sun today launched a slew of new Sun Fire systems based on the quad-core, virtualization-friendly Intel Xeon 5500 series of processors. Sun provides this helpful breakdown of where in the data center their new gear slots in:…

Filed Under: Green IT, Servers Tagged With: blades, Intel Xeon 5500, server, solid-state drive, SSD, Sun, Sun Blade X6270, Sun Blade X6275, Sun Fire, Sun Fire X2270, Sun Fire X4170, Sun Fire X4270, Sun Fire X4275, Sun Ultra 27, Virtualization

Online Resources: The Green Grid

April 13, 2009 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

Greening a data center is a daunting task. Luckily several technology companies have banded together to form The Green Grid. Besides what appears to be a genuine desire to improve IT’s effect on the environment, the group is endeavoring…

Filed Under: Green IT Tagged With: Data Center, datacenter, energy efficiency, Green IT, Online Resources, server, server room, The Green Grid, website

Arch Rock Provides Wireless Monitoring of Energy Consumption Data

April 13, 2009 by Pedro Hernandez

One of the biggest problems for eco-conscious facilities managers is identifying energy wasters. The Arch Rock Energy Optimizer wireless platform is meant to provide them with data to make it easier to hit the ground running on their conservation…

Filed Under: Green IT Tagged With: Arch Rock, Arch Rock Energy Optimizer, Power Management, Wi-Fi, wireless

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