Innovation

Green Data Centres: Energy Efficiency Is No Longer Enough

Companies should stop scrambling for PUE and concentrate on extending the lifespan of their facilities, according to Charles-Antoine Beyney, president…

15 years ago

IBM Hopes To Trigger UK Nuclear Renaissance

IBM says smart information systems could help improve the image of nuclear energy, but green groups claim such efforts are…

15 years ago

IBM Releases Energy Efficient Power7 System

IBM launches a set of Power7 systems that it says deliver up to four times the energy efficiency and twice…

15 years ago

Plastic Supercapacitor Points To End Of Batteries

British boffins may have signalled the end of the traditional battery as we know it, after they developed a composite…

15 years ago

IBM Rolls Out Power 7 Against Sun, HP

IBM has launched four servers using its Power7 processor, designed to take the wind out of the sails of the…

15 years ago

Companies Not Helping Themselves With Data Centre Efficiency

Green Grid research reports that most companies are not offering incentives to their employees to help increase energy efficiency

15 years ago

Green Grid Offers Data Centre Efficiency Tools

The Green Grid is to introduce two online tools, free of charge, that are designed help data centre managers keep…

15 years ago

Green IT Is Still On the ‘To Do’ List

Government incentives are needed to get firms to take their environmental impact seriously, according to a survey

15 years ago

Cisco Is Losing Business Through UCS, Says Blade CEO

UCS was supposed to launch Cisco into the server market, but instead it has undermined the company's data centre switch…

15 years ago

Fraudsters Net £2.6m In Carbon Phishing Scam

EU registries have been duped out of more than €3 million (£2.6m), after a phishing scam resulted in hackers stealing…

15 years ago

Samsung Cuts DRAM Power With 30nm Tech

Samsung says its 30-nanometer-class, 2GB DRAM is greener, but memory only uses a small percentage of the power consumed by…

15 years ago

Morse Identifies Loopholes in CRC Regulations

The government's CRC laws are flawed, as companies can simply offshore their data centres and it doesn't take into account…

15 years ago

NHS Staff Told To Abandon IE6

The Department of Health is advising NHS organisations to abandon Internet Explorer 6, despite the government's decision to ignore security…

15 years ago

Uptime Institute Plans Green Update

The analysts responsible for a data centre reliability rating scheme are planning to add efficiency to the mix

15 years ago

Carbon Reduction Commitment Is ‘A Tax On The Cloud’

Cap and trade rules will drive companies away from more efficient IT, says Dan Lowe of hosting company UKSolutions

15 years ago

Intel Sees The Light With Solar Power

Intel is continuing to flash its green credentials after announcing plans to install solar panels at eight locations in order…

15 years ago

University Defends Against Climategate Criticism

The University at the centre of the Climategate emails scandal denies it broke information laws

15 years ago

Climategate University Broke Information Rules

The climate research unit, whose hacked emails sparked a row, broke the law according to the Information Commissioner

15 years ago

Toxic Tech Group Slams Avatar 3D TV Upgrades

The film's environmental message has been undercut by a push to purchase 3D technology and consign old TVs to the…

15 years ago

Hospital Trust Criticised Over Data Record Theft

More than 33,000 unencrypted patient records have been stolen from an unattended hospital vehicle, including details about diabetes and results…

15 years ago

OLPC Sends Refurbished Laptops To Haiti

One Laptop Per Child, the organisation behind the $100 laptop, is calling for previous customers to donate old machines to…

15 years ago

New Data Centre To Help With Future Ecosystem

TelecityGroup has built a new data centre in Paris that will help scientists establish which plant and trees will be…

15 years ago

Facebook Planning Green Data Centre

Popular social networking site Facebook announces plans to build an environmentally-friendly data centre – its first – in Oregon

15 years ago

on365 Issues CRC Advice Amid Awareness Concerns

A data centre specialist has warned that many organisations are still unaware of the pending legislation over their energy usage

15 years ago

Businesses Increasingly Go Green To Cut Costs

Companies are increasingly pushing the green agenda despite the economic downturn, providing it can demonstrate a positive return

15 years ago

$100 Laptop Project Recruiting Haiti Volunteers

The earthquake-hit country is just one of the destinations where the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) organisation wants to send…

15 years ago

Nexsan Upgrades Energy-Efficient Dedupe Storage System

Nexsan has upgraded its file storage system designed for data protection and disaster recovery applications that need high-performance deduplication

15 years ago

Refurbished Phones Used To Aid Haiti

ReCellular, a mobile phone recycler and refurbisher, is asking consumers to send the company their old phones as an additional…

15 years ago

Cost Of Labour’s Botched IT Projects Exposed

Botched IT projects under the Labour Government have cost the British taxpayer in the region of £26 billion, it has…

15 years ago

Analysts Predict Environment, Cloud, Will Guide 2010 IT Decisions

Gartner offers IT organisations predictions for 2010 and beyond, suggesting they take advantage of coming changes, rather than be hurt…

15 years ago