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…
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…
Green IT News Roundup – Thursday, June 4
Verizon’s Public Cloud Aimed at Enterprise – PC World Customers using CaaS can manage their service through a console that allows them to provision resources as they wish, which also means if they decommission a resource, they will automatically stop…
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…
Green IT News Roundup – Wednesday, June 3
The Hidden Challenges of Virtualization – Part 2 – Virtualization.info Make sure there is a standard and consistent model for how these metrics are obtained. For example, if metrics are captured 7 days a week and 24 hours a…
HP Expands Eco Solutions with AMD Istanbul, Energy Star 5.0 PCs
…Eco Solutions being the actual name of a slate of IT products and services that they offer. Today, HP announced that they have expanded the program by offering 22 efficient ProLiant G6 product lines, double of what they had before….
HP's Power to Change Desktop Widget – Nags You to Shut Down, Nicely
Testing the ability of positive reinforcement to effect change, HP is trying to help PC users go green with a novel little software widget for Windows desktops. HP’s Power to Change widget encourages users to turn off their PC’s…
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 – Monday, May 4
Is there an immediate return on investment in virtualization? – Enterprise Management Quarterly As a solution architect, I find out that lots of IT managers hold a misleading idea that the implementation of a virtual system reduces the operation…
The Truth About Netbooks
You have likely been considering portable, affordable and energy efficient computing on the go in the form of a netbook. I have, namely that awesome looking HP on the right. There are tons of new options out there since Asus…
