Apple’s 2009 MacBook Pro: Battery Life to Die For – AnandTech The biggest winner is the 15″ MacBook Pro, it gains a 46% increase in battery capacity with zero increase in size or weight. The new 15″ MacBook Pro is…
Green IT News Roundup – Friday, June 12
How Enterprise Software Will Evolve in the Cloud – eWeek Blogs As a Microsoft software partner that subscribes to the Software Plus Services mantra, Epicor is moving to offer some elements of its software, such as the Web server and…
Green IT News Roundup – Wednesday, June 10
HP Designs New Server for ‘extreme’ Scale-out Computing – PC World The servers also omit features that HP says often aren’t required by large Internet companies, such as redundant power supplies and advanced management software. “In many cases these companies…
About that EDS Datacenter…
Remember yesterday when I mentioned the swank HP/EDS datacenter in the UK that’s being atypically cooled? Good, because more information about it is coming to light. Rich Miller of Data Center Knowledge did some digging and came upon one of…
New IBM Datacenter to Cut Power Consumption by 50 Percent
IBM is building a new datacenter at Syracuse University from the ground up and it’s using the opportunity to install power generation and HVAC equipment that would be impractical in all but the most extensive overhauls. One piece of…
Datacenter Operators Planning for Economy, Energy Efficiency
IT managers are feeling the economic pinch and they’re planning accordingly. Thirty-five percent of the 120 data center, facility and IT managers polled in Emerson Network Power’s Data Center Users Group (DCUG) survey have delayed plans to expand or build…
Green IT News Roundup – Wednesday, May 27
Virtualizing the server is great, but what about network I/O virtualization? – InfoWorld InfoWorld: For those of us who are new to this, tell us what are the current approaches to performing network I/O virtualization? Neugebauer: Methods traditionally include using…
Green IT News Roundup – Thursday, May 21
Reap the Green IT benefits of thin client computing – TechRepublic.com Cost efficiency: According to a study by IDC, users of thin clients (when compared to full PC users) saw a decline in hardware and software costs of 40%…
Second Life Goes Green with Terremark
Linden Lab is greening up its act by moving servers to a Terremark datacenter: Now the Lab is moving into newer, greener pastures err … facilities, having closed a deal with Miami-based Terremark to start moving Second Life servers into…
IBM: Mainframes are Green, Really
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…
