On the surface, it would seem counterintuitive to consider mainframes–the hulking computing flagships of IT–as a green technology. But that’s exactly IBM’s message and it does have its merits. While you may have to make some accommodations in you datacenter…
Intel Nehalem vs. AMD Shanghai… Fight!
DailyTech took a look at the marketing war of words between Intel and AMD in the server chip realm, specifically when it comes to the former’s Nehalem Xeon and the latter’s Shanghai Opteron. We all love a good fight, but…
AMD Istanbul: 6-Core Roadmap to Greener Datacenters
Today’s new quad-core Opteron EE is just the start… It’s Opteron’s sixth birthday, and the chip wars just got interesting again. Sure, the company just launched a power-sipping, quad-core Shanghai chip (more on that later) but the latest salvo was…
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 Strategies for Beginners
Jenaly Technology Group’s CTO, MJ Shoer, explores some Green IT basics by focusing in on three ways businesses can improve their impact on the environment and cut the cost of their tech operations. Covered are server virtualization, electronic documents (aka…
Sun Releases Intel Xeon 5500 and Flash-packing Blades, Servers
Sun Fire X4270 Sun today launched a slew of new Sun Fire systems based on the quad-core, virtualization-friendly Intel Xeon 5500 series of processors. Sun provides this helpful breakdown of where in the data center their new gear slots in:…
