IBM’s survey of midsized businesses, “Inside the Midmarket: A 2009 Perspective” (PDF), reveals that a large majority of organizations in the 100 – 1000 employee bracket have Green IT squarely in their radar: This year’s survey also illustrates the…
IBM Researcher's Work on Encryption to Boost Cloud Security
One of the trickiest issues that’s dogging cloud computing is security. For businesses, this is a huge deal because they are being asked to entrust another entity with the confidentiality of their data, like customer records replete with private information….
Green IT News Roundup – Wednesday, June 24
Platform leaps from grids to clouds – Channel Register There are some big differences in the software stack and hardware used by HPC grids and compute clouds, but both types of clusters have one thing in common: They need some…
IBM Supercomputer's Liquid Cooling Tech to Keep School Toasty
Aquasar, IBM’s super computer for the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich will have liquid-cooled chips to efficiently remove the heat they generate. The micro-channel cooler technology is nice, but the real kicker is that the heat will…
IBM Smart Business Cloud Services: Come Hither, Enterprises
The enterprise cloud seduction begins… Big Blue’s services division is looking to build bridges to the cloud for businesses that desire to capitalize on the benefits of this lofty form of computing. Lofty because while several cloud services have launched…
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…
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…
IBM: 800 Percent DB2 Performance Hike with SSDs
IBM is touting massive DS2 Database performance gains by employing solid state drives and using software tools, like those present in the “targeted data placement” smarts of the IBM Data Facility Storage Management Subsystem (DFSMS), in zSeries and DS8000…
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…
Green IT News Roundup – Wednesday, April 22
U.S. Navy enlists virtualization to supercharge sprawling intranet – InfoWorld The task of virtualizing NMCI’s network fell to Hewlett-Packard’s EDS subsidiary, which has managed the system for the Navy since 2001. EDS has thus far consolidated 2,000 of the Navy’s…
