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The Green Enterprise: Cisco

Networking giant Cisco Systems has a goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from its operations by 25 percent in the next four years--with the help of technologies it's created. Cisco also wants to help customers do the same. Correspondent Sumi Das looks at green innovations at Cisco, including: an...

Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., Video-conferencing, Greenhouse Gas, Green, Cisco, Telepresence, Wi-Fi enabled bus, energy efficient datacenters, Sumi Das, John Chambers, The Green Enterprise

Videos 2008-08-14

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AMD fills out six-core Opteron lineup

AMD on Monday will fill out its six-core AMD Opteron lineup with high-performance and energy efficient versions of the chip. In addition, AMD said demand for its six-core Opterons have been better than expected. AMD, which launched its six-core server chip in June, is...

Tags: AMD Opteron, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-12

The Green Enterprise: HP

Hewlett-Packard plans to cut its global energy use 20 percent by 2010. Correspondent Sumi Das looks at "green" strategies the company is implementing to accomplish its goal, such as designing new energy-efficient datacenters and helping make cities more eco-friendly through IT. She also talks to Bonnie Nixon, HP's director of...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Data Centers, Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-17

The Green Enterprise: HP

Hewlett-Packard plans to cut its global energy use 20 percent by 2010. Correspondent Sumi Das looks at "green" strategies the company is implementing to accomplish its goal, such as designing new energy-efficient datacenters and helping make cities more eco-friendly through IT. She also talks to Bonnie Nixon, HP's director of...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Data Centers, Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management, The Green Enterprise, HP

Videos 2009-04-15

News to know: IE 8; TI; VMware; Cloud computing

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 Christopher Dawson: Convertible Classmate, take 2 Jason Perlow: Linux dead at hands of Windows 7? Horse puckey! ...

Tags: Google Inc., Apple Macintosh, Cloud Computing, Phone, Texas Instruments Inc., VMware Inc., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Windows, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Data Centers, E-mail, Wiki, Linux, Web Browsers, Operating Systems, Desktops, Software, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Online Communications, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-01-27

News to know: Bailout bust and tech fallout; Cloud computing; Netgear; Apple

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: AP: Stunning Defeat for Bailout Plan Torpedoes Stocks; Dow Sinks Over 750. White House, lawmakers plan new bailout deal Larry Dignan: Is Apple really recession proof? Wall...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Sprint Xohm, Apple Inc., NetGear, WiMAX, Cloud Computing, Productivity, Open Source, Wireless

Blog posts 2008-09-30

2016: "You're watching the Linux Channel."

July 24th, 2016. Josef Konsumer, a home-based employee and portfolio manager for ICBC/CiticorpChase, a Chinese-owned multinational investment bank, wakes up to hear his alarm clock go off at 8am, and gets out of bed, his 47-year old body aching from an aggressive personal trainer session from the...

Tags: PC, Linux, Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Data Centers, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-07-24

Neocleus - A different take on desktop virtualization

Ariel Gorfung, CEO, Neocleus, and I had a fast paced, interesting discussion about the company's notion of "endpoint virtualization" and how that can change how organizations deploy and use desktop and laptop systems. At first I had trouble really getting to the heart of what they were doing. Their use...

Tags: Security, Desktop Virtualization, Information Technology, Environment, Xen, Neocleus, Xen Community, Virtualization, Desktops, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-05-19

New AMD Opterons are good news for schools

AMD, a company that has been struggling to compete meaningfully with Intel in the last year, announced new "highly efficient" quad-core processors for blade and rack servers. With energy costs increasing drastically and no relief in sight, schools looking to shave costs, as well as green their IT departments,...

Tags: Desktop, Data Center, Performance, AMD Opteron, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Data Centers, Virtualization, Utility Computing, Thin Clients, Performance Management, Storage Management, Storage, Processors, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Semiconductors, Components, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-05-13

Creating an Energy-Efficient Datacenter : Consolidate with Sun technology

Consolidation and hardware technology refreshes enable datacenters to provide more applications and services in less space and at less cost.This in-depth report shows how by moving to high-performance, energy-efficient Sun servers and storage systems, IT organisation can take advantage of the latest advancements while saving on power and cooling.

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Servers, Hardware, Data Management

White papers 2008-05-13

Red shift meets event horizon

I was amazed to read reports of a dinner last week at which top Sun executives sitting around the same table seem to have made statements that totally contradict one another. On the one hand, Greg Papadopoulos, Sun CTO and executive vice president of R&D, was telling...

Tags: Danger, Data Center, Sun Microsystems Inc., Solar Energy, Power Generation, Grid, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2007-12-13

With tech titan support, Green Grid to help datacenters go green with measurement standards

With so many tech vendors claiming their solutions to be green and looking for a leg up with customers wanting to be more power efficient with everything from their servers right up to their entire datacenters, one big problem in the industry is a lack of standards on how "green"...

Tags: Data Center, Consortium, Grid, Standards, Organization, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, David Berlind

Blog posts 2007-12-12

Measuring green opportunities

Measuring green opportunitiesMark Twain Nailed It"Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics." You make some good points about real impact of supposedly green technologies. There's information pollution to go with the environmental variety; responses tend to be well meaning but badly mistaken. It interests me how lemming-like environmentalists tend...

Tags: Data centers, Storage, Monitors & displays, data center, Just Like Windows

Discussion threads 2007-12-11

Sun hungrily awaits the Red Shift

Sun has changed its ticker symbol to Java [JAVAD] and performed reverse stock split surgery, but the focus on the company remains consistent--be the infrastructure provider for the wired planet. The mission was reaffirmed last night by Sun executives during a dinner with a few journalists at the...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Data Centers, Leadership, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-12-04

Google's secret home-brew 10 gigE switch

Google's secret home-brew 10 gigE switchWhy would google's custom switch. built for internal use...affect the pricing of switches ???"he Storage Bits takeGoogle's focus on power is paying dividends for the entire industry today. Their focus on cheap, high-speed networking will also drive 10 gigE down the price curve faster than...

Tags: PCI, Manufacturing, Google Inc., Juniper Networks Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-11-19

BriefingsDirect SOA Insights analysts examine 'Microsoft-Oriented Architecture' and evaluate SOA's role in 'Green IT'

Read a full transcript. The latest BriefingsDirect SOA Insights Edition, Vol. 27, provides a roundtable discussion and dissection of Services Oriented Architecture SOA-related news and events with a panel of IT analysts and experts. Please join noted IT industry analysts and experts Jim Kobielus,...

Tags: Green IT, SOA, Microsoft Corp., Modeling, Green, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2007-11-14

Citrix's end-to-end virtualization powerhouse hastens the massive disruption of PC applications as we know them

Citrix Systems is moving aggressively to desktop virtualization with today's announcement of the new Citrix XenDesktop 2.0 products. Combined with other recent Citrix strategic moves, the world of PCs and applications delivered as services is soon to be flipped. Heads or tails, both end users and those...

Tags: Desktop, Application, Advertisement, PC, Citrix Systems Inc., Microsoft Corp., Service, App, Citrix XenDesktop, PC Desktop, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Data Centers, Desktops, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2007-10-22

LinuxWorld 2007 goes green with Green Grid consortium

Fred Stack - Emerson Network Power, David Douglas - Sun Microsystems, Rich Lechner - IBM, Colette LaForce - Rackable, Andrew Kutz - Burton GroupNext generation data center and green computing were common themes at LinuxWorld 2007 and the Green Grid panel brought many of these issues to light.  Pictured above...

Tags: Information Technology, Consolidation, Sun Microsystems Inc., Mainframe, Server, Hardware, George Ou

Blog posts 2007-08-10

Complexity and the greening of the datacenter

The majority of datacenters were built 15 years ago when power requirements and densities were much lower. Power consumption has risen from 2 kilowatts to 40 kilowatts over the past decade. Consumption per square foot tripled from from 40 watts to 100 watts from 2004 to 2005, and it is...

Tags: Data Center, Watt, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-08-01

Google's warehouse-size power problem

Power to the internet!Beginning 5 years ago, Google took the lead in making a power consumption an issue for IT vendors. No one cared that much before that because no one else was building 100,000+ server data centers using free software and cheap PC hardware. Google wasn't the only...

Tags: Infrastructure

Blog posts 2007-07-27