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- Greening the data center
- Rising costs of energy - along with limited availability of energy in some areas – are forcing the IT industry to take a new approach in designing and managing data centers, says IBM's Christopher O'Connor. Commentary--Energy efficiency is a significant global issue today, and is expected to be even...
- Tags: Data Center, Information Technology, Organization, Energy Consumption, IT Equipment, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Christopher O\'Connor. IBM, Special to ZDNet, Christopher O\'Connor. IBM, Special to ZDNet, data center, green, IBM, costs, Christopher O'Connor
- News items 2008-11-17
- Forrester: There's really no such thing as "green IT"
- News flash. In a recent report called "Is Green IT Your Emperor With No Clothes?," market research house Forrester is advising IT managers to forget about the notion that there's any such thing as TRULY green technology. Yes, folks, it's part of that green tech backlash that we've all been...
- Tags: Asset, Green Technology, Information Technology, Green IT, Forrester Research Inc., Energy Consumption, Asset Management, Strategy, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-10-05
- New-ish NEC monitor monitors energy consumption
- New-ish NEC monitor monitors energy consumptionThe title could actually stand one more monitor..."New-ish NEC monitor monitors monitor's energy consumption". :-)
- Tags: Monitors & displays, monitor, New-ish, energy consumption, NEC Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-01
- Maybe 'lean' and not 'green' should be the rallying cry
- We're being treated to all sorts of green data center management stats this month, which is handy, as I'm preparing a presentation for later this week. So, I'll take them one batch at a time. First up: Talked to some folks earlier this month about a joint survey released by...
- Tags: Data Center, Energy Consumption, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-04-30
- Paper Manufacturer Uses Software to "Go Green" Through Reduced Energy Consumption
- Mohawk Fine Papers makes premium papers that are used by major corporations and institutions. Recently Mohawk has seen increased demand for papers that are produced with minimal environmental impact. To meet this demand, Mohawk is implementing a new Enterprise Asset Management EAM solution from Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Infor to...
- Tags: Software, Microsoft Corp., Energy Consumption, Manufacturing
- Case studies 2008-03-01
- Reducing Energy Consumption in Data Centers - A Software Based Approach
- Increasing energy consumption in the data center is causing problems for data center operators. Many are either running out of power or are unable to expand the data center to match their business needs. Often the solutions recommended tend to be expensive and require downtime. The presenter of this webcast...
- Tags: Software, Symantec Corp., Data Center, Energy Consumption, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- Webcasts 2008-02-22
- HP aims to cut PC energy use by 25 percent
- Hewlett-Packard said Tuesday that it is aiming to cut the energy consumption of its desktops and notebooks by 25 percent by 2010. The HP announcement, delivered at the Consumer Electronics Show, almost reads like it comes from an auto manufacturer trying to cut the miles per gallon...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., PC, Energy Consumption, Chipsets, Desktops, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-01-08
- Ethanol from corn: does it need a subsidy?
- Ethanol from corn: does it need a subsidy?Mod -1: Off topicThis is sound byte journalism. Are you just hoping for ill-informed rants that you can confuse with actual interest in a subject? This has almost nothing to do with energy consumption as it related to IT. How...
- Tags: Utility computing, Blade servers, subsidy, energy consumption, attack
- Discussion threads 2007-10-29
- Teen wonders if we'll leave an 'IT wasteland'
- Teen wonders if we'll leave an 'IT wasteland'Spot On!Energy consumption is going to make or break the industrialized world, and especially the I.T. industry.One part this intelligent young man missed was the energy consumption of the world's communications network itself. The transmission and switching infrastructure consume vast amounts of energy...
- Tags: Strategy, information technology, Energy Consumption
- Discussion threads 2007-08-24
- Green IT: Why it matters
- Green IT: Why it mattersBuying into the CO2 Myth?So we should waste more money following the GW Religion? There are plenty of good reasons to reduce energy consumption like reducing costs, but to bring in the GW BSology is really sinking to a new low.Once thre EPA......starts doing it's job...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, global warming, Green IT, energy consumption, computer
- Discussion threads 2007-04-26
- HP aims to cut energy consumption; Going green morphs to marketing
- Hewlett-Packard plans to cut its global energy use by 20 percent by 2010. Energy consumption has become a big issue in information technology and a major marketing push for vendors. While HPs goal is commendable it will also be used as...
- Tags: Desktops, Hewlett-Packard Co., energy consumption, marketing
- Blog posts 2007-03-28
- Energy Consumption and Conservation in Mobile Peer-to-Peer Systems
- Nowadays mobile devices are growing in number and computational resources. Devices capable of storing gigabytes of digital content are becoming ubiquitous, making them an ideal platform for peer-to-peer content delivery and sharing. However, the always on communication patterns of P2P networks are not a natural fit for energy-constrained mobile devices....
- Tags: Mobile, P2P, Energy Consumption, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet
- White papers 2006-09-25
- An Energy Consumption Framework for Distributed Java-Based Systems
- This paper presents a framework for estimating the energy consumption of Java based software systems. The primary objective is to enable an engineer to make informed decisions when adapting a system's architecture, such that the energy consumption on hardware devices with a finite battery life is reduced and the lifetime...
- Tags: Software, Java, Energy Consumption, Tools & Techniques, Management
- White papers 2006-09-09
- Comparing Energy-Saving MAC Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks
- Applications for wireless sensor networks have notably different characteristics and requirements from standard WLAN applications. Low energy consumption is the most important consideration. The low message rate that is typical for sensor network applications and the relaxed latency requirements allow for significant reductions in energy consumption of the radio. This...
- Tags: MAC, Network, Sensor, Springer Science+Business Media, Energy Consumption, Wi-Fi, Wireless
- White papers 2005-07-16
- Energy Efficient Scheduler Design in Wireless Networks
- Minimizing energy consumption is crucial for portable wireless communication systems because they operate on a limited battery supply. For example, the IEEE 802.11 standard includes a mechanism called Power-Saving Mode PSM, which allows a network interface on a mobile station to enter a sleep state whenever possible to reduce its...
- Tags: Purdue University, Network, Wireless Network, Energy Consumption, Wi-Fi, Wireless
- White papers 2004-09-30
- Energy Consumption in Data Analysis for On-Board and Distributed Applications
- Energy consumption is an important issue in the growing number of data mining and machine learning applications for battery-powered embedded and mobile devices. It plays a critical role in determining the capabilities of a broad range of applications such as space probes with onboard scientific missions, PDA-based monitoring of remote...
- Tags: Data Analysis, University Of Maryland, Battery, Energy Consumption, Engineering, PDAs, Databases, Handhelds, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers
- An Opcode Level Energy Consumption Model for a Java Virtual Machine
- This paper establishes a general framework for estimating the energy consumption of an embedded Java Virtual Machine JVM. The paper has designed a number of experiments to find the constant overhead of the Virtual Machine and establish an energy consumption cost for individual Java Opcodes. The results show that there...
- Tags: JVM, Energy Consumption, Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development
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Additional Resources
- Dell applies its own data center lessons to new green IT services
- As a business society, we've been pretty much used to thinking of information technology as a disposable asset. Even data centers were built with a 10-year lifespan in mind, which means a lot of the work done and systems deployed around the year 2000 is quickly reaching that maturity point....
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Data Center, Green IT, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- Welcome to MegaTom
- Tom Raftery, analyst at Greenmonk and another Irregular pinged me this morning to let me know about a new community: MegaTom. Born out of an idea from Gavin Starks and Simon Wardley, MegaTom seeks to act as the hub around which people can discuss the many green issues facing our...
- Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Tom, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- What a difference one atom makes
- A new study by researchers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science shows exactly how important a single atom can be in a complex molecule. Reporting in the Nov. 26 edition of the Journal of the American Chemical Society, Yang Yang, a professor of materials science...
- Tags: University Of California At Los Angeles, Solar Cell, Polymer, Solarmer Energy Inc., Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
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