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- Googling will wreck the environment!
- According to the Times of London, a newspaper which has no problem chopping down trees to distribute spread garbage like this story, each Google query you make pumps 7g of CO2 into the air. Techcrunch gives us some realistic comparisons, and a suggestion that will both save...
- Tags: Google Inc., Environment, Carbon Dioxide, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Garett Rogers
- Blog posts 2009-01-11
- HP Solutions Help Leeds City Council Reduce CO2 Emissions and Cut Energy Costs
- Situated in the Metropolitan Borough of West Yorkshire, Leeds is home to 750,000 residents and is also the workplace of 100,000 commuters. Determined to take a lead in energy saving issues, Leeds City Council LCC set itself a target to reduce energy costs by 5.6 per cent a year. LCC...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Carbon Dioxide, Server Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Recruitment & Selection, Virtualization, Servers, Hardware, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- Case studies 2008-08-01
- Will diatoms lead to faster computer chips?
- Diatoms are unicellular algae and one of the most common types of phytoplankton. One of their main characteristics is they encase themselves in shells made of silica. According to a team of U.S. researchers who successfully decoded the genome of a particular diatom named Thalassiosira pseudonana, these very small algae...
- Tags: Computer Chip, Carbon Dioxide, Shell, University Of Washington, Gene, Ocean, Carbon, Computer, Chip, Semiconductors, Productivity, Network Technology, Hardware, Networking, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-01-24
- Easing the Space, Power, and Cooling Crunch With Green Internet Datacenter Re-Design
- Most large corporations, including communication carriers, are evaluating how to be environmentally friendly as a good public-relations gesture as well as a business choice that is essential to the bottom line. Indeed, even the growing evidence of global climate change has not spurred many governmental or business organizations to take...
- Tags: Alternative Energy, Internet, Sun Microsystems Inc., Carbon Dioxide, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Sun CIO: Tackle green IT in manageable steps
- The video gurus here at ZDNet have posted their latest in the Green Enterprise series, some tips from Sun Microsystems CIO Bob Worrall on how to tackle making your data center more energy-efficient while simultaneously reducing the carbon dioxide emissions it contributes to the atmosphere. I'll let...
- Tags: Data Center, Sun Microsystems Inc., Carbon Dioxide, Department, Green IT, Data Centers, Storage, Corporate Communications, Hardware, Data Management, Marketing, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2007-10-11
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- News to know: Sun-IBM; Cloudforce; Windows 7 downgrade; AP's crackdown
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Sun following the IBM deal collapse: Customer confusion en route The IBM-Sun saga: Can McNealy let...
- Tags: Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Associated Press, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sam Diaz, IBM Corp., Smart Phones, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Keyboards, Microsoft Windows, Handhelds, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Peripherals, Operating Systems
- Blog posts 2009-04-07
- EMC joins SmartWay fold
- Storage tech giant has become part of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's SmartWay Transport Partnership. What this means, mainly, is that the company is putting a sharper focus on its distribution practices over the next three years. That means it will be looking at ways to improve its trucking operations,...
- Tags: Supply Chain, Emission, Carbon Dioxide, Supplier, EMC Corp., SmartWay Partner, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Channel Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-03-02
- Dell data dump: More energy ammo for the procurement checklist
- Two Dell-related green tech proclamations this week: First, the company has done one of those fun green math exercises and is calculating that its customers have saved an estimated $3 billion in energy costs and 29 million tons in carbon dioxide emissions by using OptiPlex desktop systems since 2005. Whether...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Dell Optiplex, Procurement, Desktops, Hardware, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- NASA's lunar breathing system
- When six astronauts share a 15 cubic meters spacecraft for weeks, how is it possible to avoid to be bothered by your fellows sweating and breathing? I've already written about staying clean in space, but NASA is going further this time. Its scientists are testing a lunar breathing system. The...
- Tags: NASA, Carbon Dioxide, CAMRAS, Sorbent, Flows, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- Hitachi tests its own green IT theories with new data center project
- Hitachi Group is celebrating Earth Day with the groundbreaking of an expansion to its data center in Yokohama, Japan. The new wing boasts technology advances that are part of the massive technology company’s CoolCenter50 project. It also plays into the company’s corporatewide Harmonious Green Plan, which calls...
- Tags: Data Center, Theory, Hitachi Ltd., Green IT, Hitachi Group, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-04-17
- Are data centers really meant to be green?
- Are data centers really meant to be green?Green Data CentersThere are different methods that a data center can use to cut back on electricity usage. For instance a lot of power is used to cool down the data center. In our server room we have a redundant cooling...
- Tags: Data centers, Storage, data center, server
- Discussion threads 2007-12-05
- Could green building materials also be longer lasting?
- One thing that frustrates my home renovation expert and bonafide contractor husband to no end is the shoddy quality of the construction materials, fixtures and other doo-dads that his customers buy at a certain uber home supply company that has managed to put most local hardware stores out of business....
- Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Construction, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2007-11-26
- Considering the green profile (or lack thereof) of common fax machines
- I’m sure it won’t surprise you to hear I’m getting more and more pitches every day from information technology product and services companies eager to drape their particular offering in some shade of green. Whether or not that was the original intention. The storage and data center...
- Tags: Fax Machine, Fax, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2007-10-09
- Eco Sun rising with the UltraSPARC T1
- In his recent blog titled "Recipe for Winning Chip Battles," Sun's Jonathan Schwartz makes a case for his company's ascendency based on having a high volume operating system (Solaris, with reportedly more than 3.2 million downloads since it went open source, mostly on non-Sun hardware) and what he calls the...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., T1
- Blog posts 2005-11-14
- Companies urged to switch PCs off
- Companies urged to switch PCs offRiiiight, so these computers are idle all night?So routine maintenance tasks like updates, defragging, hard drive backups, and virus scans are better performed while the user is logged in and trying to work? And where did Fujitsu Siemens find these monitors that don't turn...
- Tags: Desktops, Monitors & displays, PC, hard drive, power management, monitor
- Discussion threads 2005-10-24
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