As much as I want to stop buying dead tree books, Kindle’s price is still keeping me on the sidelines. And now that I really know how much it costs Amazon to build, I think I’ll be waiting for revision…
Earth in HD from the International Space Station
Sure it’s clouds, and ocean, and more clouds… Oh look, a land mass! But hit the HD button, and catch a crystal clear glimpse of why this green thing is taking off. Not a bad cause to support, right? [via…
Seagate Launches Green Barracuda LP Hard Drive
If you don want to pay a king’s ransom to outfit your PC with an energy-saving SSD — or you simply might not want to make the capacity trade-off — the next best thing to do is invest in an…
An Earth Day Blogroll
Happy Earth Day! I don’t have an official blogroll for the site yet (guess I should get started on that…). But there are some sites that I visit to get my daily dose of green. Here are some off the…
Green IT News Roundup – Tuesday, April 21
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…
Oracle-Sun Deal's Green Lining
Wondering what will become of Sun’s data center greening initiatives now that it’s getting gobbled up by database giant Oracle. The good news, according to Channel Insider, is that they’ll continue for the time being. Sun’s partners will get a…
VMware Pursues Private Clouds with vSphere 4
While there is still a lot of work to be done in getting businesses to change their one-app-per-box ways, VMware is already looking at the horizon and chasing clouds. VMware unveiled vSphere 4, which the company is billing as the…
EcoRAM at the Heart of Virident's GreenCloud Servers
I mentioned Spansion’s EcoRAM in today’s Green IT roundup and became intrigued. Luckily, VentureBeat was there to satisfy my curiosity. EcoRAM, developed by startup Virident and built by Spansion, uses flash memory chips to replace dynamic random access memory and…
Green IT News Roundup – Monday, April 20
Demo: How CloudRack Optimizes Energy Use – Data Center Knowledge The CloudRack C2 employs cabinet-level power distribution technology and fans in the rear of the enclosure, enabling server trays that contain no fans or power supplies. In this video from…
New HP Left Hand Line Makes SANs Virtual Server Friendly
HP is smoothing out SAN storage management for VMware shops with new Left Hand P4000 SAN hardware, Virtual SAN Appliance Software and the new StorageWorks SB40c Storage Blade. When deployed in conjunction with the new P4000 hardware and PSA software…
