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…
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…
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…
Green IT News Roundup – Tuesday, May 5
Google Data Center’s Massive Energy Appetite – Reuters …Case in point: over the weekend, the British newspaper the Guardian published the tantalizing statistic that Google’s data center in The Dalles, Oregon, could use as much energy as the entire city…
Green IT News Roundup – Wednesday, April 29
Swine flu threat raises telework questions – Network World Research firm Gartner said the recent outbreaks of swine flu highlight the need for companies to have in place pandemic plans that address workforce absenteeism rates of 40% or higher. The…
Verizon Expands Remote Backup and Restore Service: Model for Green Business Continuity?
One way to save money on an off-site backup infrastructure, plus the associated energy and management costs, is to pay a subscription fee to a firm that has already gone and built its share of geographically distributed datacenters. In Verizon’s…
Green IT News Roundup – Tuesday, April 28
Intel tops green power purchasing list – BusinessGreen.com Computer chip giant Intel has retained its title as the largest purchaser of renewable energy in the US, topping the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) latest list of green power purchasers after buying…
Green IT News Roundup – Monday, April 27
Lowering data center cooling costs with airflow modeling and perforated raised-floor tiles – SearchDataCenter.com An Uptime Institute study of 19 computer rooms with a total of 204,000 square feet determined that most facilities are ill prepared to remove current heat…
Assessing the State of Virtualization Security
Government Computer News explores the topic of virtualization and security, and depending on whom you believe, we’re either “halfway there” or well behind the curve. But there’s some encouraging news as the technology takes hold in the datacenter, IT workers…
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