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- Cloud platform player Voxel pledges unparalled transparency about power consumption
- Linux driven appliances are going to SHINE!Linux driven appliances just like Android that is burying the Windows Mobile that is now pretty much DOA.Microsoft is going to have fits trying to compete with a Open_Source Google and other vendors who innovate and deliver what customers want then MS Wind-ows that...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Linux-driven appliance, Linux-driven, power consumption
- Discussion threads 2009-11-17
- Cloud platform player Voxel pledges unparalled transparency about power consumption
- Transparency is a big deal for cloud computing platform company Voxel, which allows clients to track power consumption in real time. by Heather Clancy
- Tags: Power Consumption, Transparency, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-11-17
- From the ashes of Geode, AMD brings Bobcat with 1:1 possibilities
- OLPC's first laptop, the XO has been both praised and criticized for many things. Perhaps most significant was its incredibly low power consumption, critical for use in areas with very limited electrical capacity. Key to this power consumption was the AMD Geode processor, an utterly anemic piece of...
- Tags: Power Consumption, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., One Laptop Per Child Project, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-11-13
- IBM XIV® Storage System: Power Consumption Reinvented
- Reducing power consumption is one of the most significant challenges of IT centers today. With storage needs on a steep rise, it is increasingly clear that new approaches must be explored. This IBM whitepaper shows how, on average, a traditional storage system...
- Tags: Power Consumption, Storage System, IBM Corp., Storage, Storage Management, Hardware
- White papers 2009-10-12
- Telecom to Cut Operating Expenses by 62 Percent, Power Consumption by 80 Percent
- Warid Telecom International, a mobile telecommunications company, wanted to maximize uptime and energy efficiency in its call centers in Pakistan. To improve operations, it is deploying a virtual desktop infrastructure based on Windows Server 2008 R2 and Hyper-V. Warid Telecom increased uptime to 99.9 percent, cut support time by 40...
- Tags: Power Consumption, Virtual Desktop, Uptime, Telecommunications, Desktop Virtualization, Virtualization, Hardware
- Case studies 2009-10-01
- Is lower power consumption Windows 7's killer feature?
- It's no secret that I've been left struggling to come up with a Windows 7 killer feature. I think I might have found it, and it comes in the form of lower power consumption. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: Power Consumption, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2009-09-03
- U.K. security firm slashes power consumption with Faronics Power Save
- Utility software company Faronics has published a new corporate case study detailing how U.K. security and alarm company ADT is using its Power Save power management software across 2,700 desktops and notebook computers. Using investment is helping ADT save roughly 36,200 kilowatt hours per month in power, according to Faronics....
- Tags: Security, Power Management, Audit, Power Consumption, U.K., Financial Accounting, Finance, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-08-18
- Intel discusses upcoming laptop and Atom chips, why we need more performance in mobile devices
- This week I'm at the Semicon West show in San Francisco. Most of this is inside baseball--the show is devoted to the companies that make the equipment used to manufacture chips--but in his opening keynote, Anand Chandrasekher, who heads up Intel's Ultra Mobility Group, discussed some details of the company's...
- Tags: Performance, Mobile, Power Consumption, Mobile Device, Laptop Computer, Intel Corp., Chip, Advertising & Promotion, Performance Management, Notebooks, Processors, Marketing, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Semiconductors, Components, John Morris
- Blog posts 2009-07-15
- Could excess power consumption finally do in the mainframe?
- Could excess power consumption finally do in the mainframe?MiscalculationA properly used mainframe, with multiple virtual machines, would probably be more energy efficient than multiple smaller machines. All depends how old they are, and how efficiently they are used.
- Tags: Mainframes, Servers, mainframe, power consumption
- Discussion threads 2009-07-13
- Could excess power consumption finally do in the mainframe?
- Hewlett-Packard's John Pickett has it in for mainframes. In fact, he has been known to call them the SUVs of the computer industry, big pieces of gadgetry that are over-powered. As the Mainframe Alternative Program Manager in HP's ESS Marketing group, Pickett is responsible for evangelizing the...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Power Consumption, TTX, Mainframes, Servers, Hardware, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-07-13
- 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
- Improve Energy Efficiency and Manage Power Consumption With Windows Server 2008 R2
- Windows Server 2008 R2 is designed to provide better energy efficiency and performance by reducing power consumption and lowering overhead costs. Windows Server 2008 R2 helps reduce power usage at the server level, enabling server energy consumption to scale according to workload. It also helps reduce power consumption at the...
- Tags: Energy Efficiency, Microsoft Windows Server, Power Consumption, Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware
- White papers 2009-06-01
- IT Services Provider Reduces Power Consumption With Operating System Upgrade
- Oslo, Norway - based Atea is an IT services provider with 4,500 employees in 17 locations in Europe. The company has 23,000 customers and approximately U.S.$2.4 billion in annual revenue. To better help customers update and implement software, Atea wanted to upgrade its 950 computers to the Windows 7 operating...
- Tags: Information Technology, Operating System, Power Consumption, Microsoft Windows 7, It Services
- Case studies 2009-05-31
- U.K. Building Society Cuts Power Consumption by 75 Per Cent With Virtualised Servers
- Britannia Building Society has served the interests of its members for more than 150 years. It continues to perform strongly, and, in April, its members voted in favour of the society's merger with Co-operative Financial Services. By deploying the Windows Server 2008 operating system with its integrated Hyper-V virtualisation technology,...
- Tags: Britannia Building Society, Society, Power Consumption, Server, Cloud Computing, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Storage Management, Virtualization, Utility Computing, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Storage, Hardware
- Case studies 2009-05-01
- Beyond Power Consumption: What It Really Means to Go Green
- "Going Green" has become one of the most pervasive slogans in today's commercial marketplace. Growing awareness among policymakers, who are introducing more stringent environmental regulation and guidelines, and consumers, who are adapting buying habits and lifestyles toward more sustainable choices, is prompting businesses across the globe to enhance product sets...
- Tags: Power Consumption, International Data Group, Marketing Research, Regulations, Marketing, Government
- White papers 2009-05-01
- 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
- Dell and Microsoft Solutions Help ServiceU Deliver Reliable System Performance and Create a Virtualized Environment That Reduces Power Consumption by 50 Percent
- ServiceU Corporation is a Memphis-based Software-as-a-Service SaaS provider that enables organizations to run successful events by helping manage a wide range of event-related logistics, including facilities management, box office management, reserved seat ticketing, registrations, payments or donations, food, transportation, and childcare. ServiceU wanted to deploy reliable hardware to support the...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Performance, Environment, Power Consumption, Microsoft Corp., Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Servers, Emerging Technologies, Hardware
- Case studies 2009-02-01
- Why Cloud Computing Is Here to Stay
- While energy prices and CPU power consumption are out of the control reducing operating expense by optimizing amount of labor needed to perform day-to-day maintenance, upgrades and provisioning of the new equipment. Let's take a look at where the data center dollars go. Costs associated with server management and administration...
- Tags: Cloud Computing, Data Center, Power Consumption, Freedom OSS, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2009-01-17
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