New Year’s resolutions can be hard to keep, but lowering your personal computing’s carbon footprint is super easy. Not only will you save on energy costs, but you’ll save money and you’ll be more nimble and flexible in how technology is incorporated into your life. And if one of your resolutions this year was to […]
Greening a Legacy Data Center? Ask a Pro
Unless you’re Microsoft, Google or Facebook, chances are that you can’t simply build a new data center when yours starts getting a little long in the tooth. So how do you cope with an older computing facility that wasn’t exactly…
Green Computer Tip: Don't Buy Another Hard Drive, Delete Duplicate and Update Files
Adding a hard drive to your Windows PC is an easy way to expand storage capacity if you find yourself running out of room for your files. But there are two problems with this approach. First, it’ll cost you money….
Listen: GreenerComputing Tackles Green Jobs
Wondering how to land one of those green jobs that are sprouting up all over? GreenerComputing has posted a great podcast with GreenJobs.com founder Peter Beadle. It’s a pretty insightful conversation and definitely worth a listen if you’re in school…
Can Virtualization Cause Network Blindness?
Deploying efficiency-boosting technology is exciting. Managing it… Oftentimes, not so much. Steve Taylor and Jim Metzler dispense some “look before you leap” advice at Network World. Server virtualization does, however, create some significant challenges. One of these challenges is 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…
