Mind you, he has servers to sell, so salt, grains and all that good stuff… Erik Dithmer, general manager of Small Medium Business Americas for Dell is telling SMB’s to hold their horses on virtualization. Gene Marks, author of “Penny…
Dell Releases 2009 CSR Report
Dell released its 2009 Corporate Social Responsibility Report (PDF) this week. Within are many statistics related to the IT giant’s work on the environmental front. Here are some of the highlights:Lower Carbon Emissions:Completed 88 projects to save 17 million kWh…
Linux Ships on a Third of Dell Netbooks
An interesting little factoid emerged today. According to David Finch, nearly a third of the netbooks sold by Dell ship with Linux, Ubuntu to be precise.OSNews reports:Even though Dell is only the fifth-largest manufacturer of netbooks in the world, it…
Green IT News Roundup: Wednesday, August 12
Apple poaches eBay data center guru – The Register Impressed with the greenmindedness of Olivier Sanche, Dave green data center Ohara believes he is “the absolute right guy for Apple at the right time.” But part of him is little…
Dell's Energy Star 5.0 Lineup
Considering new desktops and notebooks for your business? Dell would like you to know that they have several models in their Latitude, Precision and OptiPlex lines that conform to Energy Star 5.0, consuming less than 5 watts while idle…
Dell Weighs in on Chrome
This just in from the Twitterverse. Dell has decided to semi-officially throw its two cents into the chatter storm surrounding Google’s Chrome OS. I say semi-officially because is comes in the form of a blog post. And we all know…
AMD Opteron HE: Istanbul Targets Energy Efficiency
AMD released six-core Opteron HE processors today that promise to up the performance per watt ante. Currently shipping in 2-,4- and 8-processor HP ProLiant servers, the new Istanbul chips boast an nice percent performance per watt boost over their…
Green IT News Roundup – Monday, June 22
Dell Calls ‘Green’ MacBook Ads Misleading – The New York Times Several competitors — including Dell, the company argued — had also received “gold” ratings from E.P.E.A.T., and the rating system itself, it said, had some environmental blind spots that…
Dell's Shortcut to Virtualization
Today Dell made of flurry of virtualization related announcements. Among the most intriguing are two, quasi-turnkey virtual infrastructure packages, one for full-fledged datacenters and another for SMBs: Data Center Virtualization Configuration: The unified virtualization platform with pre-configured architectures combines Dell…
Computer Recycling Online Resources: Dell, HP & IBM
Computer manufacturers are starting to make it easy to recycle your retired computers and peripherals. It will take a little extra work on your part, but it’s worth it wouldn’t you say? So stop piling your old equipment in a…
