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
Researchers have designed an "inexact" computer chip (pictured) that they say is up to 15 times more energy efficient than today’s chip technology.
The ...
Intel Sustainability Report: Tech Giant Commits to 10% GHG Cut
Intel 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 ...
MiserWare Launches IT Power Monitoring Tool
Software 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 ...
Salesforce Worst of ‘Dirty’ Cloud Companies, Greenpeace says
Salesforce, 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 ...
1E Wins Sky Chefs PC Power Management Contract
Software 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 ...
Difficulties of Going Green in the Data Center
A concept little discussed in the business world as recently as a few years ago, green IT has entered the corporate mainstream ...
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 ...
Ebay Installs Solar Panels after Utah Lobbying Victory
Ebay has installed its largest renewable energy project - a 665 kW solar installation at its Topaz data center in South Jordan, Utah - enabled ...
Google Plans Thermal Storage System for Data Center
A Google data center planned for Changhua County, Taiwan, is to use a thermal storage system, Data Center Knowledge reports.
Thermal storage systems, typically made ...
Shell Oil Explores Hybrid Cloud IT Infrastructure to Lower Power Costs for Big Data
When 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 ...
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 ...
IR Introduces 600V Integrated Circuits for Energy Efficient Inverterized Motor Drives
International 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 ...
Standards & Compliance Briefing: IgCC, LEED Milestone, Energy Efficiency Standards, U.S. Army Drops LEED
The ICC has released the 2012 International Green Construction Code (IgCC), the first model code that includes sustainability measures for the entire construction ...
Lucid Providing Energy, Water Monitoring to Seattle 2030 District
Energy and water monitoring services from Lucid's Building Dashboard product have helped building owners in an area of downtown Seattle to track cuts in ...
Amazon IT Guru Questions Facebook, Apple Solar Arrays
One 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 ...
SAP Sustainability Report: GHGs Up 8%, But Down 6% Relative to Sales
Software 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 ...
Verizon Aims to Cut Carbon Intensity by Half by 2020
Verizon 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 ...
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 ...
Fujitsu Launches ‘World’s Most Energy-Efficient’ Single-Node Server
Fujitsu 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 ...
Google Data Center Gets Water Reuse System
A 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 ...
