We expect the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory to operate efficiently. And indeed, the agency is making good on its mandate to achieve net-zero operations. According to this Energy.gov post, NREL saved $88,000 in its 2010 fiscal year by, in large part, taking a virtualization-heavy approach to IT. By consolidating servers and shifting to a […]
Google Chrome OS and Citrix: Advent of the thinner, mobile enterprise?
Thin client adoption is picking up, improving the fortunes of startups like NComputing and prodding vendors to revamp their product portfolios. Sales of energy-efficient, TCO-lowering thin client hardware is expected to double to 7.4 million by 2014 from 2010’s scant 3.7 million units, according to IDC. Can Google and Citrix get in on the action […]
Citrix, Cisco team for desktop virtualization
Is the full-featured corporate desktop going the way of the dodo? Maybe not, but Citrix and Cisco are doing their part to make them a rarity in offices where hundreds, or even thousands, of the machines currently consume vast amounts of power. Bring on the thin clients! The companies today revealed that they plan to […]
WhipTail: SSDs for effective and efficient VDI
Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) makes a lot of sense on paper. Centralize management and maintenance by servers handle the brunt of the heavy lifting and let your employees interact with technologically lean, energy-efficient thin clients. In reality — and despite the claims of VDI vendors — companies have a couple of concerns, performance being chief […]
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…
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…
Green IT News Roundup – Wednesday, May 27
Virtualizing the server is great, but what about network I/O virtualization? – InfoWorld InfoWorld: For those of us who are new to this, tell us what are the current approaches to performing network I/O virtualization? Neugebauer: Methods traditionally include using…
Green IT News Roundup – Thursday, May 21
Reap the Green IT benefits of thin client computing – TechRepublic.com Cost efficiency: According to a study by IDC, users of thin clients (when compared to full PC users) saw a decline in hardware and software costs of 40%…
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 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…
