Today’s LED-related news offers a neat, practically literal parallel to the story of the solid-state lighting technology’s ascendancy. Deerfield Beach, Florida-based MSI announced today that the San Diego Air and Space Museum is replacing the tungsten halogen lighting it currently uses with the LED lighting manufacturer’s LED bulbs. Coincidentally, MSI’s LEDs are already being put […]
Archives for March 2011
Infographic: Your home’s energy intensive ways
I love a good infographic in the morning. 1BOG’s pixelsmiths are at it again with a new infographic that illustrates how the American home has grown (literally and figuratively) to a big consumer of electricity. Did you know that by 2001, 86 percent of American households had microwaves compared to just 14 percent in 1980? […]
Today’s 10: Twitter edition – Monday, March 28
Yay social media! Today’s links are all sourced from Twitter. Why? because I can! But mostly because Twitter has become a go-to, real-time resource for discovering great news and articles in the Green IT and cleantech space. So today, I also credit the Twitter accounts that help draw attention — and spark conversation around — […]
SAP: Nearly a half a billion dollars in energy savings in 2010
SAP knows how to put together a CSR report, and the German enterprise software maker has proven it again with some interesting statistics in it’s latest disclosure. The company reported that in 2010, it had saved $470 million in energy costs thanks to real, focused efforts to drive energy efficient practices throughout the organization (like […]
IBM snags smart buildings software maker Tririga
IBM today announced that it is acquiring Tririga, the Las Vegas, Nevada-based maker of facilities management software for an undisclosed amount. The move is the latest in Big Blue’s Smarter Buildings initiative, which pursues IT opportunities in a burgeoning market for solutions that improve cost- and energy-efficiency of real estate assets like corporate offices and […]
Today’s 10: Monday, March 21
Today in Green IT: Thanks to a growing ecosystem of virtual desktop apps, the future of thin clients is looking more and more like the iPad. Also, despite the success of Amazon’s S3 platform, many IT managers won’t commit to cloud storage and Microsoft claims that its Hyper-V virtualization platform has helped Target eliminate nearly […]
Johanna Blakley’s TED talk bodes well for your ecoSocial efforts
Don’t let the title of Johanna Blakley’s TED talk, “Social media and the end of gender,” fool you. Sure, social media and gender are at the heart of it, but there are other factors that are rewriting the rules of engaging with communities and consumers. Watch the video for some fascinating, research-backed insights that could […]
Facebook: Microservers yes, virtualization no
Some interesting insights from Facebook this week as the company broadcasts some of the thinking behind its IT strategy. And instead of submitting to the virtualization craze that’s spreading through corporate data centers, the social networking giant is throwing its weight behind microservers. This comes as Intel announces plans for Xeon- and Atom-based processors for […]
Today’s 10 – Thursday, March 17
Today: Intel gets serious about ARM’s data center ambitions; Seagate busts out new SSDs for enterprise environments; and Ted Turner dishes on where he’d place his bets if he got his start today. And in a geeky way of commemorating this St. Patrick’s Day, a link to a Data Center Knowledge post on how Dublin’s […]
Today’s 10 – Monday, March 14
Today: Microsoft wants to make data centers a thing of the past (wink, wink); Calxeda (formerly Smooth-Stone) thinks its ARM-based servers will represent the next big shift in IT computing hardware; and three neat gadgets — including one in beta — that will help you save energy now. Microsoft: Our Goal is to Eliminate the […]
