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Those scoundrels, Part 2. Brit IT managers aren't feeling the heat when it comes to reducing power consumption: Those bloody good fellows at 1E, which sells a power management utility for Windows called NightWatchman, revealed some data this week that suggests a troubling number of IT managers in its native country aren't yet tuned into the virtues of curtailing the electricity usage of the computer fleets under their...; Tags: Green Technology, 1E Ltd., Power Consumption, IT Manager, Survey, Marketing Research, Marketing, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-03-14
Blade servers: Data centre power and cooling issues: IT managers need to reduce power consumption in IT infrastructure. Blades servers â€" which provide a more efficient form of computing than traditional servers â€" could provide an answer.Read this white paper to see how technology leaders can reduce power consumption through blades, and what type of power and cooling...; Tags: Blade Server, Blade, Power Consumption, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware; White papers 2008-03-03
ISSCC 2008: Details on Intel Silverthorne: At this year's ISSCC 2008 (International Solid State Circuits Conference), details of Intel's new 45nm Silverthorne will emerge.Â Intel CTO Justin Rattner held a press briefing last Wednesday to preview some of the highlights of this week's highly technical ISSCC conference in San Francisco. Credit:...; Tags: Smart Phone, Power Consumption, Intel Corp., Intel Silverthorne, TDP, 0.6W, Smart Phones, Ultramobile PCs (UMPCs), Processors, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Tablets, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Emerging Technologies, Semiconductors, Components, George Ou; Blog posts 2008-02-04
San Clemente chipset gives HP lead on energy efficiency: The January 30th 2008 batch of test results are in for SPECpower_ssj2008 energy efficiency benchmark and it looks like Hewlett Packard has claimed the energy efficiency lead with their newest low-cost 2U HP Proliant DL180 G5 server.Â The secret to their success appears to lie in the selection of the...; Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Power Consumption, Power Supply, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Watt, Intel Corp., Chipsets, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, George Ou; Blog posts 2008-02-01
Verdiem gives you more power over your power consumption. And, inquiring minds wonder whether power management might not be Vista's holy grail?: Did you know that PCs and computer monitors account for roughly 13 percent of the total electricity used each year by commercial enterprises? That statistic from the Department of Energy, which actually is pretty outdated at this point, is just one of the arguments used by power management software company...; Tags: Power Management, Data Center, Holy Grail, Power Consumption, Microsoft Windows Vista, Verdiem, Electricity Consumption, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-01-27

HP slashes power consumption across its PCs, notebooks: I knew the Consumer Electronics Show this week was bound to be busy from a green tech standpoint. Who could resist the hype? Sure enough, Hewlett-Packard has fired the first in a salvo of green first this or thats for 2008. Specifically, HP has thrown down the...; Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., PC, Power Consumption, Notebooks, Desktops, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-01-08
Automation Technology for Virtualized Systems: There has been a recent trend toward consolidating burgeoning systems onto blade servers in order to optimize IT infrastructures, maximize system investment efficiency, and reduce server power consumption. This trend heightens the demand to increase the efficiency of system integration and operation. Moreover, in line with the increased performance of...; Tags: Blade Server, Blade, Power Consumption, Fujitsu Ltd., Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Virtualization, Servers, Hardware; White papers 2008-01-01
Hitting 50W peak on a dual-core desktop computer: The 50W no-compromise dual-core commodity desktop PC is now a reality!I have some great news for the green computing world.Â The 50W no-compromise dual-core commodity desktop PC is now a reality!Â It all started a few months back when I looked in to the possibility of building a main stream...; Tags: Desktop, Dual-core, Power Consumption, Memory, Motherboard, Computer, Watt, Desktop Computer, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, George Ou; Blog posts 2007-12-19
SPEC launches standardized energy efficiency benchmark: SPEC (Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation) launched its first standardized energy efficiency benchmark SPECpower_ssj2008 this week which tackles something that the computer industry has struggled to define in recent years.Â With datacenter energy costs spiraling out of control, server customers have struggled to sort out the conflicting messages from technology vendors...; Tags: Performance, Java, Quad-core, Power Consumption, Server, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Energy Efficiency, SPECpower_ssj2008, Servers, Processors, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, George Ou; Blog posts 2007-12-14
Some perspective on the data center power problem: A boutique analyst firm based in New York City called The 451 Group has released a report and survey information along with suggestions about how corporate IT managers can evaluate and manage energy usage. The study is called Eco-Efficient IT: The eco-imperative and its impact on suppliers...; Tags: Data Center, Power Consumption, Server, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2007-12-07
How green is your PC?: In my review of HP's MediaSmart Server a few weeks back, some commenters asked how much power this always-on server uses. I promised to do some testing, which is now complete. In the process, I tested a desktop PC and learned a few things about Windows power management that I...; Tags: HP Server, Hewlett-Packard Co., PC, Power Consumption, Server, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Windows, Serial ATA, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Storage, Hardware, Ed Bott; Blog posts 2007-11-30
'$100 laptop' hits $200: '$100 laptop' hits $200Com'on get real!Is this to create jobs for poor chinese workers? Or to help kids of poor countries? I don't know how many of kid can afford $100 dollars! That's a lot of money for their parents. More realistic approach is to ask people in developed contries...; Tags: Notebooks, laptop computer, Microsoft Windows, $100 laptop; Discussion threads 2007-10-29
Build the $340 NAS for half the price but double the speed: The thing that has always bothered me with the NAS (Network Attached Storage) market for consumers is that it's very high margin yet the products deliver very poorly on performance.Â While that might be great for the product manufacturers bottom line, it isn't so great when you're the consumer.Â Typical...; Tags: Hard Drive, NAS, Media Center PC, Performance, Power Consumption, Watt, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Media Center PCs, Performance Management, Storage, Microsoft Windows, Serial ATA, Linux, Hardware, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Operating Systems, Software, George Ou; Blog posts 2007-10-22
Western Digital 'GreenPower" drive halves power consumption: Western Digital 'GreenPower" drive halves power consumptionGreatAll I need is that second revision to Intel's Micro ITX board and I am read to build.RE: Western Digital 'GreenPowerHow can Weenie George have 6 positive votes (thumbs up) with NOT A SINGLE POST!George and ZDNet are now using the thumbs up to...; Tags: GreenPower, Western Digital Corp., power consumption; Discussion threads 2007-10-19
Western Digital 'GreenPower" drive halves power consumption: The Western Digital "GreenPower" WD10EACS 1 terabyte hard drive is one the cheapest hard drives you can buy at this capacity ($300 including shipping) but it's also the most energy efficient.Â The drive has a technical specification of 4 watt idle which I measured fluctuating between...; Tags: Power Consumption, Western Digital Corp., Watt, Seagate 7200.10, Performance Management, Storage, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Hardware, George Ou; Blog posts 2007-10-19
Hosting Provider Saves Up to 85% of power consumption and Improves Server Management by Using Virtuozzo: ServInt specializes in full-service, high-bandwidth web hosting for business customers. ServInt also provides clients with high-speed Internet access through its Access Services group. ServInt built a successful dedicated hosting business, but wanted to reduce power consumption and better manage their servers. Virtuozzo provided a highly efficient solution for reducing power...; Tags: Parallels Virtuozzo, Server Management, Power Consumption, ServInt, Virtualization, Servers, Hardware; Case studies 2007-10-16
If kids don't have electricity, will a laptop change their lives?: This week I received some flack from readers for favoring Intel's Classmate PC distribution model over OLPC's, not just because I'm apparently a Wintel devotee (despite my advocacy and daily use of Linux), but also because of the power consumption differences between the two models. One reader wrote: ...; Tags: Power Consumption, Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, OLPC Technology, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2007-10-12
Building a data center circa 2007: Building a data center circa 2007Misunderstanding about power trendsPower consumption is not increasing, certainly not in watts per mips, and not in nominal terms either. A 2004 vintage single-core Nocona Xeon consumed 103W TDP, vs. 65W for today's regular (not low-voltage) Woodcrest Xeon or 80W for tomorrow's quad-core Tigerton (50W...; Tags: Data centers, Storage, data center, power consumption; Discussion threads 2007-09-24
Is the 50 watt PC possible using commodity parts?: I've been testing a bunch of systems from AMD and Intel in the last few months trying to build the ultimate low-power PC using commodity components and I can say I've gotten close.Â I wanted to get to the magic 50W marker at least for idle power consumption which is...; Tags: Processor, PC, System, Power Consumption, Power Supply, Motherboard, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., CPU, Watt, Intel Corp., George Ou; Blog posts 2007-09-18
ACP - The Truth About power consumption Starts Here: For years, CIOs never had to worry about the cost of power - that financial cost was always buried somewhere in the facilities budget and companies rarely bothered to connect the dots between energy consumption and IT infrastructure. As the world shifted from propriety expensive mainframe technologies to lower cost...; Tags: CIO, Data Center, Power Consumption, Data Centers, Mainframes, Storage, Servers, Hardware, Data Management; White papers 2007-09-07