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Green DIY: Build a Solar Wi-Fi hotspot

October 7, 2010 by Pedro Hernandez 1 Comment

This is neat. If you need to extend a wireless network beyond the reach of a power cable, VoltXamps.com has a how-to on converting a Linksys WRT54G router, a solar panel and a cigar box into a self-contained Wi-Fi hotspot. It’s a cool and classy-looking weekend project if you’re comfortable with some soldering and flashing […]

Filed Under: Green IT Tagged With: computer networking, DIY, how to, howto, Linksys, network, solar, Wi-Fi

IT rivalries spill onto the smart grid

September 22, 2010 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

Silly Cisco, you didn’t expect to own smart grid networking did you? GigaOM’s Katie Fehrenbacher has a great post today on how IT rivalries, particularly the one between Cisco and Juniper, are spilling into the smart grid space. Already, Google and Microsoft are tackling the home energy management market with PowerMeter and Hohm, respectively. Now, […]

Filed Under: Smart Grid Tagged With: Cisco, Google, IBM, Juniper, Microsoft, network, Smart Grid

Solarflare announces low-power 10GbE server adapters

September 8, 2010 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

Irvine, Calif.-based Solarflare Communications announced the availability of network adapters that, because of the company’s low-power SFC9000 chipset, offers high-speed networking for servers while helping to trim energy costs. And not just for any servers either, but systems that drive virtualized and/or cloud environments thanks to its hardware assisted virtual I/O acceleration for VMware, Microsoft […]

Filed Under: Green IT Tagged With: network, server, Solarflare Communications

LSI Paves Way for Greener GbE Switching

May 13, 2009 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

LSI has new chips that promise substantial energy savings in network switching, up to 30 percent if the company’s estimates hold true. The company’s new gigabit Ethernet (GbE) PHY silicon is “the industry’s lowest-power GbE technology in the smallest size,”…

Filed Under: Green IT Tagged With: GbE, LSI, network, switch

Green IT News Roundup – Wednesday, May 13

May 13, 2009 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

Using power management techniques to green your IT department – TechRepublic In 2007, IT consulting company EDS demonstrated it was socially responsible by complying with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) ENERGY STAR specifications for reducing computer energy use. In…

Filed Under: Green IT Tagged With: blades, Data Center, datacenter, Green IT, green technology, network, News

Green IT News Roundup – Tuesday, April 21

April 21, 2009 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

Tom Friedman to data centers: ‘Get ready for carbon tax’ – TechTarget If there’s anything a data center manager can take from a Tom Friedman talk on disappearing sea ice and petro-dictatorships, it’s this: A carbon emission tax on…

Filed Under: Green IT, Servers Tagged With: 3Com, carbon tax, CloudRack, Data Center, datacenter, HP, IBM, network, SSD, Storage, switch, UNIX

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