SAP plans to beef up its business sustainability portfolio with the acquisition of Clear Standards Inc., makers of software that measures a business’ carbon output and provides a roadmap for cutting energy costs and emissions. SAP envisions that Clear Standards…
Nimbus: Open Source and Virtualization for Data Crunching Clouds
Science Daily has a neat article on Nimbus, a cloud computing platform that the project’s team describes as an “infrastructure-as-a-service” (IaaS). To date, organizations are largely adopting the cloud computing model to offload storage and host applications with Web-based front…
Windows 7 *Hearts* Solid State Drives
The difference between SSDs and traditional hard drives go well beyond energy savings and fast I/O rates. There are some fundamental ways flash chips store data, which makes regular defrag and other drive optimization techniques that operating systems employ unsuitable…
PureChoice Software Promises Energy Efficient Facilities
Everyone wants to reduce wastefulness and inefficiency, but that usually entails additional investments or an outright overhaul of buildings, plants and related facilities. A classic Catch-22. PureChoice says it has software, called PureTrac, that can save companies up to 30…
Ixia Puts Virtual Server Environments to the Test
Complaints about the lack of visibility into virtual environments are nothing new. It goes without saying that many IT shops will remain reluctant to move more apps onto virtual servers until they have their concerns addressed. You know what that…
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…
About that Earth-killing Spam…
Yesterday, McAfee and ICF shocked us with data that exposed spam’s environmental impact. Jeremy Kaplan at Good Clean Tech isn’t buying it… Business users leave their PCs on all day regardless of whether they’ve finished sorting their inboxes, so…
HP Fattens Thin Client Portfolio
If the IT departments within most businesses were honest with themselves, they would realize that few of their employees require a full-blown, stand-alone tower or workstation to get their work done. So why incur the energy, management and maintenance costs?…
McAfee Assesses Spam's Environmental Damage
Spam. We all hate it for obvious reasons, but here’s a new one that really draws an eco-geek’s ire. According to research conducted by McAfee and ICF, every year 33 terawatt hours (TWh) are wasted transmitting, smiting and otherwise dealing…
