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- How green is software as a service?
- I was briefed Friday by Symantec's Cecily Joseph, director of corporate responsibility, and one of the things we got to talking about was a survey the company conducted back in March to get some more visibility into Green IT priorities. The research, which was conducted by Applied Research, represents 1,052...
- Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, Green IT, Power Consumption, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Data Centers, Emerging Technologies, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-06-06
- Billion-year ultra-dense memory chip developed
- Billion-year ultra-dense memory chip developedDensity1012 bits per square inch? I think engraving is higher density and at least as stable.Unless, of course, that was supposed to be 10E12 bits per square inch.Fix your link!The link on the front page header does not take you to this article. The...
- Tags: Semiconductors, Memory, memory chip, chip
- Discussion threads 2009-06-05
- Sun provides mid-year green report card. How do you think it's doing?
- Another quick update: Sun Microsystems has again set a great example for the other high-tech vendors by posting a mid-year update to its corporate social responsibility and sustainability goals. I like to think of this as their "call of shame:" you can see for yourself that setting goals is one...
- Tags: Card, Data Center, Sun Microsystems Inc., Goal, Power Consumption, Data Centers, Corporate Social Responsibility, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Leadership, Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-02-06
- Power-Aware FPGA Design
- Power consumption requirements in new, autonomous, multimedia-savvy consumer products that can store, transmit, and receive information have catapulted system architects and board and chip designers into a new realm. Even when designers attempted to reduce system power consumption, their approaches were not comprehensive and focused enough to achieve optimal results....
- Tags: Technique, Actel, Aware, Board, Power Consumption, FPGA, Productivity, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law
- White papers 2009-02-01
- CES 2009: World's thinnest plasma is 8.8mm thick [day 3]
- Panasonic has taken the crown again for world's thinnest plasma with their 1/3-in. thick NeoPDP HDTV: This recently-developed NeoPDP technology has been incorporated into two types of PDPs: a super high-efficiency 42-inch PDP "that achieves triple luminance efficiency while reducing the power consumption...
- Tags: Panel, Panasonic, Power Consumption, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Components, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-01-08
- White paper: Green IT is not just about power consumption
- White paper: Green IT is not just about power consumptionIt's not just power, but not just hardware eitherI can't agree more with wanting to see the focus change to a broader view on Green-IT, it not just being power consumption.Consider one of the largest environmental impacts could be simply reducing...
- Tags: Printers, power consumption, Green IT, e-mail
- Discussion threads 2008-12-09
- Power Consumption: Designing for Client Use
- Maximum power consumption is specified for many standards including PCI, PMC, cPCI etc. It would be nice it the real world design issues followed the standards of the IEEE Computer Society and PCISIG. Frequently the clients have power requirements exceeding the specification for the bus they use. Dynamic Engineering designs...
- Tags: Power Consumption, Standards, Dynamic Engineering, Planes, Quality, Business Operations
- White papers 2008-12-04
- White paper: Green IT is not just about power consumption
- Did you know that moving from a three-year PC lifecycle to a four-year one could save about $325 per PC? Or that the number could hit $500 per PC, if you extend that lifespan by just another year? Now, multiple that by 1,000 computers. Or 10,000. That's...
- Tags: Asset, Information Technology, Green IT, Power Consumption, Asset Management, Strategy, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Using TREES to save the forest
- Lots of green building news bouncing around in the past few weeks, which simultaneously disheartening and heartening because of the state of the real estate market. The biggest deal, perhaps, is the fact that the U.S. Green Building Council is updating its Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design guidelines. (Here's...
- Tags: Software, Power Consumption, TREES, Tools & Techniques, Real Estate, Management, Business Operations, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Standard Register Consolidates to Drive Down Costs, Power Consumption
- Standard Register, a Dayton, Ohio-based document and print management services company, was founded on a technology breakthrough: a new way to pinfeed continuous paper forms that revolutionized the way companies processed bills, receipts, purchase orders and other business documents. Standard Register wanted to leverage technology to enable business growth without...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Power Consumption, Data Centers, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Virtualization, Utility Computing, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- Case studies 2008-12-01
- Intel preps launch for latest power-optimized chip family
- Just what I need, a breath of fresh air on the tech news front. With a matter of weeks until we start the last year of this decade (egad, how did THAT happen), Intel plans to spice things up by finally shipping its next-generation desktop microprocessor, which it has been...
- Tags: Power Consumption, Intel Corp., Chip, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-11-07
- IBM's management and testing software updated with energy conservation in mind
- IBM has said and done plenty about tweaking its server and storage hardware for energy efficiency. Last week, it released some changes to its Tivoli management platform as well as its content management software designed with energy efficiency in mind. The company (finally!) has also started a new program that...
- Tags: Software, Power Consumption, IBM Corp., Tools & Techniques, Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-11-02
- Hardware and Garden Retailer Uses Intel vPro Technology to Improve Management and Slash Power Consumption Across Rural NSW Stores
- Founded in 1986, Petries Mitre 10 Home & Garden Centre is a major regional supplier of hardware and gardening supplies within central New South Wales. Point-of-sale POS system integrity is essential in any retail operation, and when the stores are hours apart even a small problem can cause lost revenue...
- Tags: Point-of-sale, Intel vPro, Power Consumption, Hardware, Intel Corp.
- Case studies 2008-11-01
- Intel D945GCLF2 Dual Core Mini-ITX Carputer Motherboard
- The Intel D945GCLF2, based on the Intel Atom, is finally released. One of the key features that caught the author's eye was the dual core Atom processor. Not only is it dual core, but its power usage is outstanding. It's estimated to use 4 watts under load while consuming milliwatts...
- Tags: Dual-core, Power Consumption, Motherboard, Intel Corp., IsYouGeekedUp.com, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- White papers 2008-10-03
- Dell Global Infrastructure Consulting Services Helps HotSchedules Design and Deploy a Virtualized Infrastructure, Cutting Power Consumption by 77 Percent and Licensing Costs by 75 Percent
- HotSchedules wanted to design and deploy a new data center infra-structure that can accommodate rapid annual business growth while also controlling hard-ware acquisition and power consumption costs. With help from Dell Global Infrastructure Consulting Services, HotSchedules deployed a virtualized server infrastructure with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V running on Dell...
- Tags: Consulting Service, Dell Computer Corp., Data Center, Power Consumption, Consulting, Data Centers, Storage, Servers, Hardware, Data Management
- Case studies 2008-10-01
- Radeon HD 4550/RV710 sneak peek
- Expreview gives us a sneak peek at the AMD's upcoming RV710 Radeon HD 4550. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: Card, Power Consumption, RAM, Radeon, Memory, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-09-11
- Dell Global Infrastructure Consulting Helps DeKalb Medical Create a Virtualized Server Environment to Eliminate Up to 90 Servers and Reduce Power Consumption by an Anticipated 20 Percent
- For Georgia's DeKalb Medical, technology is vital to enhancing efficiency, ensuring safety, and delivering high-quality healthcare. DeKalb Medical wanted to design and deploy a virtualized server environment that can deliver accelerated application provisioning, improved resource utilization, and decreased downtime while reducing power, cooling, and real estate costs. Dell Infrastructure Consulting...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Environment, Power Consumption, Consulting, Real Estate, Servers, Business Operations, Hardware
- Case studies 2008-09-01
- Cisco Eats Its Own Dog Food - and It Tastes OK
- There continues to be much coverage in the press about the impact IT is having on the environment through increasing power consumption. As well as berating IT departments for the poor running of data centres and deploying devices inefficiently in the field there has also been more positive talk about...
- Tags: Quocirca, Food, Information Technology, Power Consumption, Cisco Systems Inc., Strategy, Management
- White papers 2008-06-27
- UK Hospital Reduces Server Management and Power Consumption by 70 Per Cent and Delivers New Services Faster With Award-Winning Virtual Infrastructure
- Rapid server infrastructure expansion meant that Liverpool Women's Hospital - part of Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust needed a consolidated infrastructure that would guarantee information availability and speed up the delivery of new services. Dell deployed a simplified, efficient, easy-to-manage environment based on Dell servers running VMware virtualization software. A...
- Tags: Server Management, Dell Computer Corp., Hospital, Power Consumption, Storage Solution, Storage, Servers, Hardware
- Case studies 2008-06-12
- Using Software to Reduce Power Consumption
- Business demands on IT are ever-increasing to keep pace with the exponential growth of data throughput and the fast-rising need for data storage. Data centers are struggling to deploy the servers and storage hardware needed to meet the expanding demands of this business environment. The growth in data center hardware...
- Tags: Software, Data Center, Power Consumption, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2008-06-01

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