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.
Modular Data Centers Make Business and Environmental Sense, Report Says
Pre-engineered and prefabricated data centers now make environmental and economic sense, according a report by environmental IT research consortium The Green Grid.
According to Deploying and ...
Atos to Use SAP Sustainability App; Greenstone Updates Acco2unt
International IT services company Atos will use SAP BusinessObjects Sustainability ...
Fed Agencies Ordered to Cut Travel, Printing, IT 20%
President Obama heralded a program that has saved the Commerce Department $1.8 million off its cell phone bills, as he directed agencies to ...
Elliptical’s R.A.S.E.R. HD May Achieve PUE of 1.03
The R.A.S.E.R. HD modular data center unit from Elliptical Mobile Solutions (EMS) is capable of maintaining very low values – 1.03 or better – for power usage ...
Noesis Energy Reveals ‘Freemium’ Business Model
Noesis Energy is to start giving away its energy management software, then charging customers for additional services related to the products.
The company is hoping this "freemium" ...
Google Green Czar Steps Down
Google green czar Bill Weihl quietly stepped down from his post yesterday.
Weihl, who headed the company's Clean Energy Team, confirmed his departure ...
HP Knocks Nokia from Lead in Greenpeace Electronics Guide
HP has taken the lead in Greenpeace's Guide to Greener Electronics, while the scores of former front runners Nokia and Sony Ericsson have dropped.
The ...
The Elephant In the Data Center?
The whole concept of "green" computing has been focused in recent times on the metric introduced by The Green Grid, PUE, Power ...
CSCI: Adopt Network Efficiency Strategies or Pay Up
Company executives need to adopt specific best practices for energy efficiency in networks and across connected devices, or unneeded energy use will continue to negatively affect ...
HP Data Center Project ‘to Reduce Energy up to 89%’
HP has unveiled Project Moonshot, an initiative to reduce data center energy use by up to 89 percent through the sharing of storage, networking, ...
BT’s Cool Broadband Snoozes for 30 Percent Less Energy Use
British communications provider BT is testing out Cool Broadband, an energy-saving mode for its broadband connections in the village of Martlesham, Suffolk in the ...
Allianz Deploys IO Anywhere Modular Data Center
Allianz Global Investors of America has deployed IO's IO Anywhere, a modular data center technology platform. By choosing the modular platform, ...
Apple Quietly Plans Solar Array for $1bn Data Center
Apple is quietly planning a solar farm near its newly opened, $1 billion Project Dolphin data center in Maiden, N.C., according to news reports.
The ...
Intel, Dell Join Facebook’s Efficiency Project
Intel, Dell, Mozilla, Rackspace and Netflix have all joined Facebook's Open Compute Project, which aims to increase efficiencies and reduce the environmental impacts ...
NVIDIA Buys Hara Energy Management Software
Visual computing firm NVIDIA is to use energy management software by Hara to track, verify and manage its energy usage and emissions.
As an IT company, NVDIA's ...
Kaiser Permanente, Fujitsu Lead Green IT Rankings
Kaiser Permanente, KPMG, State Street and Allstate lead this year’s Computerworld rankings of the top green IT users, while Fujitsu, HP, Accenture and Microsoft top the list for green IT vendors and data center suppliers.
Fujitsu ...
ARM Cell Phone Processor ‘Five Times More Efficient’
ARM has debuted the Cortex-A7 MPCore processor, which the company says is five times more efficient and one fifth the size of a predecessor ...
Ford, Microsoft Announce Supply Chain Info Drives
Microsoft and Ford have both launched efforts aimed at increasing the amount of information available on their vendors' commitments to social and environmental policies.
Starting in 2013, ...
Economizers Shave 20% off Data Center Energy Costs
Nearly half of data centers are using economizers to provide natural cooling, and they are saving an average of 20 percent off their ...
Exclusive: Sprint Toughens GHG Goal by 5% Under WWF Agreement
Sprint has upped its carbon reduction goal by five percentage points as it becomes one of just 28 companies to join the World Wildlife ...
Renewables Briefing: World’s Biggest Offshore Wind Farm, 1.3 MW Solar Installation at Navy's SPAWAR
