Corporate social responsibility extends as businesses integrate Green IT
“Green IT is moving beyond the environmental characteristics of IT equipment..."
“Green IT is moving beyond the environmental characteristics of IT equipment..."
Data centers powered by fuel cells, not the public power grid, could cut both capital and operational costs, improve reliability, pollute less and take up less space, according to Microsoft researchers.
Certero’s Asia-Pacific (APAC) regional director, Ivan Kladnig, will host a live presentation during International Green IT Awareness Week (IGITAW) to tackle technology sustainability and promote the company’s brand.
In promotion of the Green IT Awareness Week (June 1 – 7), Foxtel has sponsored a video crowdsourcing competition for the best original video that promotes environmentally-friendly behaviour related to technology.
Facebook and several of its high-tech partners are rethinking how companies can handle big data with low-cost computing centers.
Since January, David Filas, a data center engineer at Trinity Health, has been running decommissioned servers, networking gear and storage systems in a simple generator shed on the grounds of the healthcare provider's headquarters in Novi, Mich.
Well, <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2011/101411-backspin.html">last week's Backspin</a> on Rossi's E-Cat power generator was fun. Between that column and <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/markgibbs/2011/10/17/hello-cheap-energy-hello-brave-new-world/">a blog posting</a> I made on the topic over at Forbes, I've had more than 100 comments and an insane number of page views which all goes to show just what a hot topic alternative energy is.
After years of failing to get <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/subnets/microsoft/">Microsoft</a> to adopt a formal environmental sustainability policy, shareholders seem to have won: Microsoft will now insist its hardware suppliers comply with the company's social responsibility requirements.
How does the federal government go about implementing green IT? According to a report out today from the Government Accountability Office, the feds have adopted a number of practices that are useful not just for government IT but all manner of private and public company IT groups as well. These include everything from dedicated funding for green products, to improved employee training and reducing use of paper.
Data centers have been using less electricity than you think ... or at least, compared with what they have in the past.
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 two-socket server.
Around four years ago, ‘Green IT’ became a bandwagon. Vendors were falling over themselves to promote the green benefits of their products and services, whether that involved reduced energy consumption, the use of recycled materials, or the recyclability of physical products.
WASHINGTON - When Silicon Valley's chieftains say we're entering the "post-PC era," they are not just referring to the PC. According to the post-PC theory, tablets, smartphones and other devices are also on the verge of irrelevancy.
The cutaway section of Hewlett-Packard's latest iteration of a prefabricated modular data center has a space-station-like feel to it.
Research firm, Ovum, has found that the number of organisations using [[artnid:387036|green IT|]] has grown to 68 per cent in the first half of 2010 and 73 per cent in the second half.