Innovation

Boffins Create Algorithm To Run Data Centres

New formula shows how to keep users happy and keep the energy bills low by increasing server utilisation

13 years ago

The Next Sustainable Power Source: Your Body?

Fuel cells are being built that are small enough to be implanted in the body, says Eric Doyle. Could they…

13 years ago

Rising Energy Costs Boost Power Management

Savings made by businesses could increase five-fold by 2015

13 years ago

Ecodesk Shares Big Firms’ Green Strategies

Ecodesk is offering a free database containing the sustainability strategies of the world's largest companies

13 years ago

Green Tech Dominates Japan’s CEATEC Event

CEATEC offered a glimpse of some cool new gadgets, but the focus was largely on ways to save power, says…

13 years ago

Data Centre Spend To Surpass Pre-Downturn Level

Worldwide data centre hardware spending for 2011 is set to rise 12.7 percent from 2010, says Gartner

13 years ago

Green Data Centres Will Be Measured On Money

PUE and other efficiency measures are useful, but data centre owners are chasing money now, says Peter Judge

13 years ago

Waste Heat From Disney Data Centre Warms District

Disney has provided a peak “behind the magic”, at least in how its data centres will turn heat into energy

13 years ago

Green Grid Plans Online Data Centre Efficiency Tool

Users will be able to compare data centre efficiency using an online tool from the Green Grid

13 years ago

EU’s E-Waste Reuse Target Branded ‘Pathetic’

The EU is focusing too much on recycling and not enough on reuse of e-waste, according to Comtek

13 years ago

HP Extends FlexNetwork For Multimedia And Cloud

HP has extended its FlexNetwork portfolio with hardware and management tools for cloud and video

13 years ago

Technology In Ghana: A Blessing Or A Curse?

Ghana is at the forefront of Africa's technological development, but can it overcome its chronic e-waste problem, asks Sophie Curtis

13 years ago

UK Carbon Emissions Target On Standby For Disaster

The growth in home devices and appliances is threatening the 2020 carbon reduction targets

13 years ago

Datapipe Plugs Into Verne’s Icelandic Data Centre

Datapipe signs up, as the modules start to ship to build Verne Global's green data centre

13 years ago

SAP Makes ‘Living Lab’ For Cashew Farmers In Ghana

Ghanaian cashew nut farmers are testing a smartphone app that improves efficiency in the supply chain

13 years ago

Government To Fund Graphene Research Hub

Wonder-material graphene will get its own £50m research hub as part of the government's IT investment package

13 years ago

Cloud Benefits Are Limited, Warns Analyst

Don't put your IT in the public cloud unless it is already outsourced, badly broken or new, says Canalys

13 years ago

SAP Helps Ghanaian Shea Nut Workers Earn More

Groups of women Shea nut harvesters in Ghana are using SAP smartphone software to improve efficiency

13 years ago

Google Invests £50m For Home Solar Energy

Google has made another investment in renewable energy with funding to install solar panels in US homes

13 years ago

Pre-Fab Green Data Centres Come In Any Size

Pre-fab data centres are a reality, and containers are reaching places we wouldn't have expected, says Peter Judge. All sizes…

13 years ago

Camfed And Google To Launch ICT Centres In Ghana

ICT centres run by women provide hubs of learning in remote rural regions of Ghana

13 years ago

Airbus Buys Supercomputers In HP PODs

Airbus has doubled its high-performance computing power with HP's container-based data centres

13 years ago

Icelandic Data Centre Uses Modules, Not Containers

Container-based data centres are popular, but Verne Global went with bigger modules in Iceland

13 years ago

Ghana Slum Faces Growing E-Waste Problem

The Ghanaian government is torn between a growing e-waste problem and the need for affordable IT equipment

13 years ago

UK Government To Dismantle NHS IT Programme

The world's largest public sector IT project has officially failed, but experts say nothing has changed

13 years ago

Power Will Be Wasted, Until IT Pays Its Bills

Even after years of Green IT promotion, only a minority of IT people know how much power they use. Peter…

13 years ago

Green Nvidia ‘Kal-El’ Tegra Chip Will Feature Five Cores

Nvidia’s latest Tegra mobile chip has hidden super powers courtesy of a secret very low-energy fifth core

13 years ago

Deep Sleep Wi-Fi Could Improve Phone Battery Life

Boffins have come with an “idle listening” fix for smartphones to dramatically improve battery life

13 years ago

Intel Partners To Sing The Praises Of Microservers

At IDF, Intel, Dell and SeaMicro were pushing the low-power microserver as a space-saver for point applications

13 years ago

Cool Technology Could Revive Moore’s Law

A California research team has found a way to increase power on chips without creating heat: micro-capacitors

13 years ago