Today: IBM tackles smart meter security; Power Assure continues to eke out data center energy savings; and Pike Research expects the PC and server power management software market to hit $783 million annually by 2015. Plus, it looks like St. Louis is undergoing a data center boom of sorts. It helps that the area counts […]
Today’s Ten – Wednesday, Feb. 09
It’s a smart grid kinda Wednesday. Smart Grid News alerts us to the release of the Smart Grid Consumer Collaborative’s State of the Consumer Report. (Come back for some highlights later.) Oracle posted a YouTube videos with Guerry Waters, the company’s utilities guru. And Mashable takes a look at how social media and the smart […]
Today’s Ten – Tuesday, Feb. 08
In the news today, Landis+Gyr and Mueller Systems team on networking solutions for utilities that provide both electricity and water. Also, Intel snaps up 2.5 billion renewable energy credits; the key to Green IT could be as simple as stopping the practice of overprovisioning IT; and IDC predicts that the cloud management software market will […]
Rumor: Boxed software facing extinction at Apple Stores
Rumor has it that Apple is planning to remove boxed software from its retail stores. How’s that for dematerialization? Can’t say it’s too surprising, coming on the heels of the Mac App Store’s successful debut. In its first day, it attracted 1 million downloads. And for some developers, it has helped drum up sales nicely. […]
Today’s Ten – Monday, Feb. 07
Some interesting stories among today’s collection of Green IT links. First, shrinking state budgets could shave an impact on their ability to attract big data center operators if incentive programs get slashed. It’s a situation that could have a profound effect on North Carolina, which has become the East Coast epicenter of data center growth. […]
The 10-year server?
How many of your servers have been around for a decade? Not many, it’s safe to assume. (None ideally.) Chances are that the servers you deployed in 2001 were replaced 3-5 years later. And if there are a couple stragglers still around, they’re costing you a bundle in electricity and rack space. Fortunately, longevity is […]
Telepresence today: SAP’s sustainability council is allergic to air travel
Or at least it’s growing highly averse to it. And considering the state of teleconferencing tech today and its potential to cut carbon emissions, good for them. SAP, which is making a serious push to reduce its environmental impact and help other organizations measure and reduce theirs, relies primarily on teleconferencing technologies to conduct its […]
NYC, IBM to leverage cloud, supercomputing for green buildings
There’s Green IT and there’s IT that greens. The City of New York, IBM, Columbia University, Polytechnic Institute of NYU and City University of New York have teamed up to turn the Big Apple into a mecca for sustainable structures. In establishing the NYC Urban Technology Innovation Center, which will reside in Columbia University, the […]
Stat of the day: 15,000 gigawatt-hours per year
Can you guess what industry lays claim to that energy consumption stat? It’s the telecom industry, specifically the 16,000 legacy TDM (time-division multiplexing) phone switches in the U.S. and Canada, which account for 15 terawatts of juice yearly or “roughly 0.4% of all electricity used in those two countries,” according to of Access Venture Partners’ […]
U.S. Government’s $1.5B cybersecurity data center: Yes, it’ll be green
Don’t expect to glean too much information about the U.S. Government’s new $1.5 billion data center in Camp Williams, Utah, which just broke ground and will be operated under the auspices of the NSA. Little is publicly known about the (take a deep breath) Intelligence Community Comprehensive National Cyber-security Initiative Data Center (CNCI) except its […]
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