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…
SAP Releases 2008 Sustainability Report
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…
eTelemetry Intros Cloud Metering
Guess what’s new in eTelemetry’s Metron v. 2.1 release? Cloud Services Accounting, that’s what. Cloud Services Accounting (CSA), put simply, provides monitoring and reporting over the bandwidth consumed by cloud services. Why should your organization care? Well, if you’re seeing…
Green IT News Roundup – Tuesday, May 12
Cisco Beckons Carriers to the Cloud – Light Reading Cisco is announcing a blueprint called Unified Service Delivery (USD), which it claims will simplify the carrier data center and let carriers make better use of virtualization — the technology that…
Clear Standards Ahead for SAP
SAP plans to beef up its business sustainability portfolio with the acquisition of Clear Standards Inc., makers of software that measures a business’ carbon output and provides a roadmap for cutting energy costs and emissions. SAP envisions that Clear Standards…
Flix Cloud – On2's Online Video Transcoding Service
On2 is showing off Flix Cloud, the company’s Amazon EC2 powered video transcoding service, at Streaming Media East 2009 this week in NYC. The service uses Zencoder and the company’s own Flix Engine. Flix Cloud accepts a laundry list…
Green IT News Roundup – Sunday, May 10
Citrix Dazzle Offers Self-Serve Virtualized Apps – InformationWeek Dazzle is accompanied by Citrix Merchandising Server, which allows IT staff to prepare a wide variety of applications to be included in the Dazzle storefront, and Citrix Receiver, client software that allows…
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…
Virtualization Pays Off
…or at least IT managers that have implemented the technology in their datacenters seem to think so. This TechRepublic blog post offers us these encouraging words: Even in these fragile economic times, CIOs are investing in virtualization. A 2008…
PureChoice Software Promises Energy Efficient Facilities
Everyone wants to reduce wastefulness and inefficiency, but that usually entails additional investments or an outright overhaul of buildings, plants and related facilities. A classic Catch-22. PureChoice says it has software, called PureTrac, that can save companies up to 30…
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