Green IT

Green IT systems deliver information technology with maximum energy efficiency and greater sustainability. Stories focus on efforts to use green IT to fight climate change and drive reductions in data center energy use. We look specifically at how companies green their IT systems.

‘Inexact’ Computer Chip 15 Times More Energy Efficient

‘Inexact’ Computer Chip 15 Times More Energy EfficientResearchers have designed an "inexact" computer chip (pictured) that they say is up to 15 times more energy efficient than today’s chip technology. The ...

May 25, 2012

EL Pro Intel Sustainability Report: Tech Giant Commits to 10% GHG Cut

Intel Sustainability Report: Tech Giant Commits to 10% GHG CutIntel has pledged to reduce its direct greenhouse gas emissions by 10 percent on a per-chip basis by 2020 compared to 2010 levels, and announced ...

May 18, 2012

MiserWare Launches IT Power Monitoring Tool

MiserWare Launches IT Power Monitoring ToolSoftware company MiserWare has released IT power use monitoring program Granola Enterprise 5.0. The program allows companies to measure the energy use of all of ...

April 20, 2012

Salesforce Worst of ‘Dirty’ Cloud Companies, Greenpeace says

Salesforce Worst of ‘Dirty’ Cloud Companies, Greenpeace saysSalesforce, the world's largest vendor of enterprise cloud computing, gets the worst ratings in a Greenpeace report that claims cloud computing companies are perpetuating the ...

April 18, 2012

1E Wins Sky Chefs PC Power Management Contract

1E Wins Sky Chefs PC Power Management ContractSoftware company 1E has been contracted by in-flight services provider LSG Sky Chefs to increase the efficiency of its PCs. LSG, which belongs to Lufthansa's catering ...

April 18, 2012

Difficulties of Going Green in the Data Center

Difficulties of Going Green in the Data CenterA concept little discussed in the business world as recently as a few years ago, green IT has entered the corporate mainstream ...

April 16, 2012

How Efficient Is Your Server Estate?

How Efficient Is Your Server Estate?Probably the most fundamental pieces of equipment in your IT asset arsenal are servers. But they are also probably the most disregarded ...

April 12, 2012

Ebay Installs Solar Panels after Utah Lobbying Victory

Ebay Installs Solar Panels after Utah Lobbying VictoryEbay has installed its largest renewable energy project - a 665 kW solar installation at its Topaz data center in South Jordan, Utah - enabled ...

April 11, 2012

Google Plans Thermal Storage System for Data Center

Google Plans Thermal Storage System for Data CenterA Google data center planned for Changhua County, Taiwan, is to use a thermal storage system, Data Center Knowledge reports. Thermal storage systems, typically made ...

April 9, 2012

Shell Oil Explores Hybrid Cloud IT Infrastructure to Lower Power Costs for Big Data

Shell Oil Explores Hybrid Cloud IT Infrastructure to Lower Power Costs for Big DataWhen Shell Oil's power requirements grew 3.6 MW in a nine-month period at its three global data centers and 400 regional sites, the company's IT ...

April 6, 2012

Green Approach to Data Centers ‘Gaining Ground’

Green Approach to Data Centers ‘Gaining Ground’The proportion of IT professionals that say green initiatives are a key reason behind their data center consolidation efforts has risen from 34 percent ...

April 3, 2012

IR Introduces 600V Integrated Circuits for Energy Efficient Inverterized Motor Drives

IR Introduces 600V Integrated Circuits for Energy Efficient Inverterized Motor DrivesInternational Rectifier introduced the compact IRS2334SPbF and IRS2334MPbF three-phase, 600V integrated circuits for inverterized motor drives used in energy efficient appliance and industrial applications. The ...

March 30, 2012

EL Pro Standards & Compliance Briefing: IgCC, LEED Milestone, Energy Efficiency Standards, U.S. Army Drops LEED

Standards & Compliance Briefing: IgCC, LEED Milestone, Energy Efficiency Standards, U.S. Army Drops LEEDThe ICC has released the 2012 International Green Construction Code (IgCC), the first model code that includes sustainability measures for the entire construction ...

March 29, 2012

Lucid Providing Energy, Water Monitoring to Seattle 2030 District

Lucid Providing Energy, Water Monitoring to Seattle 2030 DistrictEnergy and water monitoring services from Lucid's Building Dashboard product have helped building owners in an area of downtown Seattle to track cuts in ...

March 27, 2012

Amazon IT Guru Questions Facebook, Apple Solar Arrays

Amazon IT Guru Questions Facebook, Apple Solar ArraysOne of Amazon's leading data-center experts has called into question the environmental logic behind large solar farms recently installed or proposed by Facebook and Apple. In ...

March 26, 2012

EL Pro SAP Sustainability Report: GHGs Up 8%, But Down 6% Relative to Sales

SAP Sustainability Report: GHGs Up 8%, But Down 6% Relative to SalesSoftware corporation SAP emitted eight percent more greenhouse gases in 2011 than 2010, its first year-on-year rise in such emissions since 2007, but its emissions ...

March 26, 2012

EL Pro Verizon Aims to Cut Carbon Intensity by Half by 2020

Verizon Aims to Cut Carbon Intensity by Half by 2020Verizon announced yesterday that it will cut its CO2 intensity in half by 2020, using 2009 as a baseline. The company made the announcement as it ...

March 20, 2012

Developments in Energy-Efficiency Technologies for Data Centers

Developments in Energy-Efficiency Technologies for Data Centers Berkeley Entrepreneurs Forum provides a preview of the energy technologies that will drive a new generation of data processing and storage ...

March 19, 2012

Fujitsu Launches ‘World’s Most Energy-Efficient’ Single-Node Server

Fujitsu Launches ‘World’s Most Energy-Efficient’ Single-Node ServerFujitsu has launched Primergy RX300 S7, a product that the company calls the world's most energy-efficient single-node server. The server has a 51 percent energy-efficiency ...

March 19, 2012

Google Data Center Gets Water Reuse System

Google Data Center Gets Water Reuse SystemA Google data center in Georgia is the internet firm's first U.S.-based data center to conserve water using a water reuse system. The system, financed by ...

March 16, 2012