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Article | 9/08/2011 Top 8 ways feds (and corporate users) can take advantage of green IT
How does the federal government go about implementing green IT? According to a report out today from the Government Accountability Office, the feds ha...
Article | 3/08/2011 Google, data centers using less power than expected
Data centers have been using less electricity than you think ... or at least, compared with what they have in the past.
Article | 7/07/2011 Energy hogs: Servers vs. desktops vs. set-top boxes
Set-top boxes supplied by cable companies are likely using more power than desktop and laptop computers, and about 25 per cent of the power used by a ...
Article | 13/06/2011 Inside HP's prefab data center
The cutaway section of Hewlett-Packard's latest iteration of a prefabricated modular data center has a space-station-like feel to it.
Article | 4/06/2011 Google: Five data center energy saving ideas you can implement
When it comes to saving data center energy few companies would have the expertise of Google, which has some of the largest data centers in the world. ...
Article | 19/05/2011 The Green IT movement has lost the plot
When it comes to environmental sustainability, the information technology community has seriously mistaken its priorities. Our latest research has con...
Article | 8/04/2011 Facebook joins the ranks of industry's elite
Facebook's start-up days are long behind it.
Article | 16/02/2011 Green memories accelerate ROI for data centers
This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the subm...
Article | 8/01/2011 Ford debuts all-electric car
Ford Motor Company debuted its first all-electric vehicle, the Focus Electric, at the 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show Friday. It is one o...
Article | 10/12/2010 Research supports claim that cloud is energy efficient
A new report has added further to the debate as to whether cloud computing is a greener approach to running data centres. A survey by Pike Research ha...
Article | 9/11/2010 Microsoft claims cloud computing does cut carbon emissions
The thorny question of carbon emissions from cloud computing has raised its head again. There's been plenty of debate as to whether cloud computing is...
Article | 9/11/2010 Cisco bets state-of-the-art data center on UCS
Cisco bet big on its UCS products for data centers – and now it's going "all in" with a massive, resilient and green data center built on that integra...
Article | 13/10/2010 Green IT: A critical industry practice
Green IT is still at its early stage of development in the industry worldwide. Nonetheless, it is an essential domain for businesses not only to boost...
Article | 1/10/2010 Icelandic company claims 100% carbon neutral storage
Icelandic hosting company GreenQloud has launched what it claims is the world's first carbon-neutral cloud service. The company has teamed up with obj...
Article | 21/09/2010 HP unveils 'whisper quiet' Envy 100 e-All-in-One home printer
HP has unveiled the new Envy 100 e-All-in-One inkjet multifunction printer, which has a sleek, compact design that shouldn't look out of place in a mo...