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NREL’s green data center saves $88K, improves security

November 15, 2011 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

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We expect the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory to operate efficiently. And indeed, the agency is making good on its mandate to achieve net-zero operations. According to this Energy.gov post, NREL saved $88,000 in its 2010 fiscal year by, in large part, taking a virtualization-heavy approach to IT. By consolidating servers and shifting to a […]

Filed Under: Data Center, Virtualization Tagged With: Data Center, green data center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, net-zero, NREL, thin client, U.S. Department of Energy, VDI, virtual desktop infrastructure

Google Chrome OS and Citrix: Advent of the thinner, mobile enterprise?

December 10, 2010 by Pedro Hernandez 1 Comment

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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 […]

Filed Under: Featured, Green IT Tagged With: Chrome OS, Citrix, cloud, Cloud Computing, Dell, Google, mobile, NComputing, software, thin client

Citrix, Cisco team for desktop virtualization

September 8, 2010 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

Is the full-featured corporate desktop going the way of the dodo? Maybe not, but Citrix and Cisco are doing their part to make them a rarity in offices where hundreds, or even thousands, of the machines currently consume vast amounts of power. Bring on the thin clients! The companies today revealed that they plan to […]

Filed Under: Green IT, Virtualization Tagged With: Cisco, Cisco UCS, Citrix, desktop virtualization, thin client, VDI, virtual desktop, XenDesktop

WhipTail: SSDs for effective and efficient VDI

August 31, 2010 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) makes a lot of sense on paper. Centralize management and maintenance by servers handle the brunt of the heavy lifting and let your employees interact with technologically lean, energy-efficient thin clients. In reality — and despite the claims of VDI vendors — companies have a couple of concerns, performance being chief […]

Filed Under: Storage Tagged With: flash storage, solid-state drive, SSD, thin client, VDI, virtual desktop, virtual desktop infrastructure, WhipTail

Green IT News Roundup – Monday, June 22

June 22, 2009 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

Dell Calls ‘Green’ MacBook Ads Misleading – The New York Times Several competitors — including Dell, the company argued — had also received “gold” ratings from E.P.E.A.T., and the rating system itself, it said, had some environmental blind spots that…

Filed Under: Green IT Tagged With: Apple, Cloud Computing, cooling, Data Center, datacenter, Dell, Green IT, netbook, News, roundup, thin client

Green IT News Roundup – Thursday, June 4

June 4, 2009 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

Verizon’s Public Cloud Aimed at Enterprise – PC World Customers using CaaS can manage their service through a console that allows them to provision resources as they wish, which also means if they decommission a resource, they will automatically stop…

Filed Under: Green IT Tagged With: Cloud Computing, Green IT, HP, News, roundup, SSD, thin client, Verizon Business, Virtualization, VMware

Green IT News Roundup – Wednesday, May 27

May 27, 2009 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

Virtualizing the server is great, but what about network I/O virtualization? – InfoWorld InfoWorld: For those of us who are new to this, tell us what are the current approaches to performing network I/O virtualization? Neugebauer: Methods traditionally include using…

Filed Under: Green IT Tagged With: Data Center, datacenter, Green IT, News, roundup, thin client, Virtualization

Green IT News Roundup – Thursday, May 21

May 21, 2009 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

Reap the Green IT benefits of thin client computing – TechRepublic.com Cost efficiency: According to a study by IDC, users of thin clients (when compared to full PC users) saw a decline in hardware and software costs of 40%…

Filed Under: Green IT Tagged With: Data Center, datacenter, Dell, Green IT, Intel, News, thin client

SAP Releases 2008 Sustainability Report

May 12, 2009 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

I’m always curious to see if companies that push Green IT indeed practice what they preach. SAP, which recently made a curious move into environmental impact reporting software, just published its 2008 sustainability report, complete with its own URL. Unlike…

Filed Under: Green IT, Stats & Figures Tagged With: carbon footprint, Data Center, datacenter, SAP, sustainability, thin client, Virtualization

Green IT News Roundup – Tuesday, May 5

May 5, 2009 by Pedro Hernandez

Google Data Center’s Massive Energy Appetite – Reuters …Case in point: over the weekend, the British newspaper the Guardian published the tantalizing statistic that Google’s data center in The Dalles, Oregon, could use as much energy as the entire city…

Filed Under: Green IT Tagged With: Cloud Computing, Data Center, datacenter, Google, Green IT, HP, Intel, Intel Atom, thin client

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