Can electronic medical records (EMR) help hospitals, clinics and doctor’s offices go green? Yes, but not right away. Kaiser Permanente, a health care giant, used itself as a test case and the results are encouraging. Transitioning to electronic medical records can cut CO2 emissions by up to 1.7 million tons a year. The New York […]
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 […]
Cloud, data center growth drives GE’s $520M Lineage Power buy
GE is venturing into the green data center energy space by acquiring Plano, Texas-based Lineage Power for just over a cool half-billion dollars. Citing growth in cloud and mobile computing — thanks, in part, to the 1.1 billion new smartphones the company expects to hop on wireless networks this year — GE’s Energy Services president and […]
Top 10: Most popular ecoINSITE posts of 2010
It’s that time. Before we welcome a brand new year, here are 2010’s most popular posts according to you! 1. Stats of the Day: BP Oil Spill Google Results Back in June, I ran a little experiment. In terms of Google search results, how did BP’s recent oil spill compare against the previous top environmental […]
Analysis: Microsoft’s Dynamics ERP cloud strategy
An Industry Voices Post: Cloud computing is emerging as a way to trim IT costs and achieve both energy savings and carbon reductions. A win-win-win, right? Essentially, yes, but as any techie can tell you, any change in IT strategy merits a good, nuanced examination about how it affects your business. I’m thrilled to have […]
Google Chrome OS and Citrix: Advent of the thinner, mobile enterprise?
Thin client adoption is picking up, improving the fortunes of startups like NComputing and prodding vendors to revamp their product portfolios. Sales of energy-efficient, TCO-lowering thin client hardware is expected to double to 7.4 million by 2014 from 2010’s scant 3.7 million units, according to IDC. Can Google and Citrix get in on the action […]
Cloud to slash data center energy costs by 38 percent in 2010
A new forecast from Pike Research points not only to the accelerated growth of cloud services, but also huge energy savings in the coming decade. According to the research firm’s “Cloud Computing Energy Efficiency” report, cloud computing is projected to cut worldwide data center energy costs by 38 percent, from $23.3 billion in 2010 to […]
Cloud-ify apps for 91% energy savings
Cloud-based apps can save businesses a bundle on energy costs versus on-site hosting according to new data from Nucleus Research. After comparing the energy consumption of Salesforce.com apps to their in-house equivalents, the research firm found that Salesforce.com beat out non-cloud app infrastructures with up to 91 percent in energy savings. And it saves money […]
Microsoft: The cloud’s greener
Can the cloud help businesses green their IT? Yes, says Microsoft. A study commissioned by the software giant, and conducted by Accenture and WSP Environment and Energy, finds that cloud computing can cut emissions and reduce power consumption by up to 30 percent. The reductions are more pronounced for small businesses, which lack the expertise […]
Intel on server chips: Atom out, McAfee in
SeaMicro, you’re on your own. (And it could be a good thing.) According to Intel’s vice president and general manager of its Data Center Group, Kirk Skaugen, the chipmaker won’t be making a push into the server space with its low-power Atom processor. The market for servers comprised of several Atom processors, like the ones […]
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