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Smart Cities Council Adds Three Companies

February 20, 2014February 20, 2014 by Bill Opalka

CH2M HILL, DNV GL and SunGard Public Sector have been added to the roster of companies in an industry coalition to advance smart city development and innovation. The Smart Cities Council was formed in 2012 to support and educate cities about the best ways to improve their livability, workability and ... Read more »

IBM Helps Hawaii Study the State’s Electric Grid

February 11, 2014 by Linda Hardesty

The State of Hawaii’s Department of Defense is collaborating with Hawaiian Electric, the Pacific Disaster Center (managed by the University of Hawaii), US Pacific Command, IBM and Mehta Tech to study the enhancement of the security, reliability, and dependability of the electric grid on Oahu and ways to apply analytics ... Read more »

11 IBM Servers Meet New Energy Star Guidelines

January 31, 2014 by Linda Hardesty

IBM says 11 of its servers have met version 2.0 guidelines now in effect under the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Energy Star program. Qualifying criteria for the new Energy Star rating include features such as efficient power supplies, real time power usage measurement and advanced power management for lowering usage ... Read more »

Lux Research Water Industry Opportunities

You Can Make Money in the Water Business, Lux Research Says

January 22, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

The $600 billion water industry boasts a sizable number of profitable large companies, according to Lux Research, which says new entrants are bringing emerging technologies that will disrupt the industry and create new opportunities. A review of 150 companies across the value chain, representing 23 percent of the market, found ... Read more »

How to Cut Cloud Computing’s Carbon Emissions

January 3, 2014January 3, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

A group of algorithms developed by computer scientists at Trinity College Dublin and IBM Research Dublin can help reduce the carbon cost of cloud computing, IEEE Spectrum reports. Using the new algorithms, collectively called Stratus, the scientists were able to model a worldwide network of connected data centers and predict ... Read more »

Indian Renewables Firm Chooses IBM to Manage Data

November 19, 2013 by Linda Hardesty

India-based Bharat Light and Power (BLP) has formed a 10-year collaboration with IBM to help manage the vast amount of data generated by BLP’s power generation sources. IBM will deploy its SoftLayer cloud infrastructure as a service to centrally monitor and manage BLP’s existing and future generation plants as well ... Read more »

IBM Patents Sustainable Computing for Data Centers

November 8, 2013November 7, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

IBM inventors have patented a technique that enables cloud computing data center operators to dynamically redistribute workloads to lower-powered or underutilized systems, thereby minimizing their energy usage and environmental footprint. In October, IBM received US Patent #8,549,125: Environmentally sustainable computing in a distributed computer network for the invention. Read more ... Read more »

Air Pollution Hurts Computers, Intel Says

October 22, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Intel says Asia’s industrial pollution is harming electronics, The Oregonian reports. In addition to shortening human lifespans, air pollution in China and India makes computer failure “multiple” times more likely, Intell tells the newspaper. Sulfur corrodes the copper circuitry that provides neural networks for PCs and servers and wrecks the ... Read more »

Top 100 Global Cleantech Firms Named

October 11, 2013October 11, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

LanzaTech, RecycleBank, ChargePoint and Desalitech are among the companies to make the most recent Global Cleantech 100 list and report. The fifth annual list, compiled by Cleantech Group, recognizes the companies most likely to have a significant market impact over the next five to 10 years, according to the global ... Read more »

TSO Blends Power Management with Intel’s DCM; Enmetric Raises $1.5M

October 1, 2013 by Linda Hardesty

TSO Logic, a developer of energy efficiency software for data centers, formed a relationship with Intel to provide data centers with more visibility into server power costs and usage. TSO Logic’s Application-Aware Power Management will incorporate Intel’s Data Center Manager (DCM) software to communicate with hardware manufacturers, such as IBM ... Read more »

IBM Smart City Technology Tapped for India Project

September 20, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

IBM’s smart city technology has been selected by the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor Development Corporation (DMICDC) to help cities across India become more sustainable by improving efficiencies in their transportation, energy and water management systems. The tech giant and the DMICDC have completed a digital management plan for Dighi Port Industrial ... Read more »

Partnerships: E.ON, IBM; Silver Spring Networks, Sunrise Technologies

September 11, 2013August 2, 2019 by Linda Hardesty

Silver Spring Networks partnered with Sunrise Technologies, a manufacturer of street lighting photocontrols for utilities. Silver Spring’s networking platform will be integrated into Sunrise Technologies’ utility-grade BrownBetty OpenGrid Light Control module. Silver Spring Networks’ secure IP platform, at scale across 17 million connected endpoints, enables utility customers to deploy large ... Read more »

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