Wondering what the two tech titans (matrix comparing Google’s PowerMeter and Microsoft’s Hohm and what each has in store for eco-minded homeowners. As it stands now, Hohm seems to have an edge over PowerMeter. Hohm is looking more like a…
Containers, Outside Air Drive Efficiency in New Microsoft Datacenters
Dublin, Ireland and Chicago are the sites for two new Microsoft datacenters that employ some green innovations. Both are set to go online in next month and each drives energy efficiency in different ways. The Dublin datacenter, a render…
Welcome, Hohm – Microsoft's Home Power Play
Slightly ahead of the smart meter invasion and Google’s PowerMeter, Craig Mundie announced that Microsoft is getting into the home energy monitoring game with a free online service called Hohm. “Microsoft Hohm demonstrates how a combination of advanced software and…
Windows 7 Gets Serious About Power Management
Need another reason to love Windows 7? According to Microsoft, Windows 7 will give green IT pros a reason to smile thanks to new power management features built into the OS. Here’s one: New Diagnostics: new tools will help improve…
Microsoft Research Aims to Reinvent Teleconferencing
Let’s get it out of the way: meetings suck. Granted, many are productive but they require, at the very least, for you to leave your comfy cube and haul your laptop, notepad and BlackBerry into a conference room. At worst,…
Windows 7 (and Hyper-V) to Make for Momentous October
Windows 7 isn’t the only big thing coming out of Microsoft on October, not for eco-techies at least. VIrtualization Review spotted this little nugget about Hyper-V that nearly got lost in the excitement.At the very end of the Windows 7…
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…
Have the Virtualization Wars Begun?
That technology companies wage marketing wars is nothing new. Microsoft vs. Apple, Intel vs. AMD… the list goes on. The virtualization market hasn’t been affected by the FUD bug, largely because the market is viewed as VMware and everyone else….
Windows 7 *Hearts* Solid State Drives
The difference between SSDs and traditional hard drives go well beyond energy savings and fast I/O rates. There are some fundamental ways flash chips store data, which makes regular defrag and other drive optimization techniques that operating systems employ unsuitable…
Green IT News Roundup – Monday, May 4
Is there an immediate return on investment in virtualization? – Enterprise Management Quarterly As a solution architect, I find out that lots of IT managers hold a misleading idea that the implementation of a virtual system reduces the operation…
