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Article | 19/04/2011 To boost data center efficiency, consider UPS consolidation
In data center upgrade planning, backup power is often among the last considerations and the first budget item redlined. Many companies purchase an un...
Article | 8/04/2011 Facebook joins the ranks of industry's elite
Facebook's start-up days are long behind it.
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 | 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 | 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 | 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 ...
Article | 19/11/2010 IBM tops Green500 list
While China can take pride in topping the list of the world's most powerful supercomputers, IBM has been given another recognition: building the world...
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 | 29/10/2010 Green gadget chargers go massive
Markets for advanced charging technologies (including solar-powered handsets, solar chargers, wireless power units, fuel-cell battery charging product...
Article | 28/10/2010 Chip giants investigate more power efficient chip design
A number of chip manufacturers and European research institutions have banded together to figure out how redesign microprocessors so that they consume...
Article | 16/10/2010 Facebook and eBay share energy tips for data centers
Facebook and eBay shared some tips this week for improving efficiency and cutting energy bills in data centers.