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Article | 10/03/2011 HP expands energy and carbon monitoring services
Hewlett-Packard on Thursday announced a new portfolio of services to determine and implement ways to cut energy costs and carbon emissions across orga...
Article | 23/02/2011 Early-warning sensors in focus after New Zealand quake
Authorities from Asia to California are working on computerized systems to warn people of large earthquakes, which are in focus again after the deadly...
Article | 22/02/2011 iPhone workers still sick after chemical poisoning
Guo Ruiqiang says he still feels sick more than a year after he suffered chemical poisoning while working on an iPhone production line.
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 | 15/02/2011 HP puts on data center hard hat
Hewlett-Packard wants to manage the construction phase of its clients' data center projects, hoping to expand its revenue from this area and, it says,...
Article | 4/02/2011 Throwing away your old computer just got harder in Europe
New rules on disposing of your old laptop, printer or mobile phone look set to come into force in the European Union. The European Parliament on Thurs...
Article | 3/02/2011 India aims for greener telecom
India’s telecom regulator has invited comments from mobile operators and other concerned parties in a bid to evolve a policy framework to reduce the c...
Article | 2/02/2011 Advanced antennas, virtual modems to make networks greener
The GreenTouch Consortium demonstrated its work Tuesday into how using large-scale antenna systems and virtual modems, along with splitting mobile net...
Article | 28/01/2011 Microsoft presses Intel for 16-core Atom chip
Microsoft has asked Intel to develop a 16-core version of its low-power Atom chip for use in servers, part of a wider effort to reduce power consumpti...
Article | 18/12/2010 BCS launches green accreditation for data centres
BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT, has today launched an accreditation for energy efficient data centres.
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 | 7/12/2010 SGI offers air-cooled modular data center
SGI has launched a modular data center that uses outside air instead of chilled water to cool the IT gear inside, making it highly energy efficient, t...
Article | 7/12/2010 IT networking gear goes green
Servers get most of the glory when it comes to energy management, but networking gear is about to catch up.
Article | 4/12/2010 IBM Turns its Headquarters into a Smart Building
I recently toured IBM's headquarters in Armonk, NY. The 280,000 square foot facility that was built in 1997 during the Lou Gerstner era, is currently ...
Article | 3/12/2010 After PUE, Green Grid creates metrics for carbon and water
The Green Grid consortium, which developed the widely used PUE metric for measuring energy efficiency in data centers, is developing two more metrics ...