Innovation

Cambridge University To Offer Cloud-Based HPC

The University of Cambridge is planning a commercial high performance computing cloud, driven partly by a successful move to meter…

16 years ago

Nokia Unveils Green Apps For Ovi Store

Nokia's Ovi Store is the company's big chance to compete against Apple App Store and RIM's new BlackBerry App World

16 years ago

Servers Can Be Both Eco and Logical, Claims Rackable

Is there room in the market for a specialist builder of data-centre servers? Rod Evans, the boss of Rackable Systems'…

16 years ago

Greenpeace Slams PC Makers Over Toxic PCs

Dell, Lenovo and HP are still using toxic BFRs and PVC, and won't honour a promise to phase them out…

16 years ago

Rackable CEO Explains SGI purchase

It's a tiny deal compared to the proposed IBM-Sun Merger, but Rackable will do well with SGI, says Mark Barrenechea

16 years ago

Earth Hour Fails To Slow Internet Usage

Internet usage continued to suck down power with no slowdown before, during and after Earth Hour

16 years ago

UK Start-Up Plans Pedal-Powered Green Data Centre

Financial services companies looking to cut IT costs could make use of pedal power

16 years ago

Legal & General Adopts Sustainable Printing Plan

The UK financial services company has cut its printers, faxes and other output devices from 150 to 50

16 years ago

Labs Verdict: Nehalem Boosts Virtualisation

Intel's Xeon 5500 processor includes a lot of improvements that will reduce server power demands and allow more virtualisation

16 years ago

Beware Of Nehalem’s Virtualisation Risk

Intel's new flagship can cut your data centre's power and space demands by packing more virtual machines in, but think…

16 years ago

Open Cloud Manifesto: Blighted From Birth?

Is the Open Coud Manifesto doomed even as it is officially announced? The top three cloud platforms have backed off,…

16 years ago

Open Cloud Manifesto – Open For Business

Critics say the IBM-backed Open Cloud Manifesto is a bid to use standards to slow down faster-moving competitors

16 years ago

Why Hackers And Regulations Cost The Earth

Security threats like Conficker, along with the regulations and measures to combat them, are a nightmarish waste of resources, says…

16 years ago

iPhone Could Manage Electric Car Efficiency

Google co-founders are two of the investors pumping money into Tesla Motors which could be monitored via an iPhone or…

16 years ago

Dell Plans To Replace Consultants With The Cloud

The direct model did away with the old way of buying PCs. Now it's time to apply cloud economics to…

16 years ago

Earth Hour Energy Use May Outweigh Savings

People blogging about Saturday's Earth Hour, and watching it on television, may use more power than is saved by switching…

16 years ago

Green is The Colour of Money, Too

Done properly, going green means lower costs, not higher, says Dave Cox, operations chief at Blue Coat and the man…

16 years ago

Can Dell Deliver The Full Monty?

Dell is wasting time with claims about server performance. The real story is the management tools it says can free…

16 years ago

Dell Unleashes Cooler, Cheaper Servers

Dell's Nehalem server launch majored on power savings and system management, pitching a commodity console from Symantec against the might…

16 years ago

UK PC Users Are Greener Than Americans

PC users in Britain are more likely than those in the US to switch off PCs for environmental reasons. But…

16 years ago

Lenovo Unveils Green Supercomputer Desktops

Lenovo unveils new ThinkStation S20 and D20 desktops, which the company is billing as personal “supercomputers”

16 years ago

UK IT Departments Unprepared For Carbon Trading

Research from Gartner says not enough companies are preparing their IT systems for the data management and analytics required for…

16 years ago

UK Government: We’ll Secure Smart Meters

The Department for Energy and Climate Change has moved to reassure users over fears on smart grids

16 years ago

Companies Threaten To Kill Green Energy Over Government Rules

Government rules could strangle green energy, according to a group of companies, some of whom have cancelled plans for renewable…

16 years ago

Vodafone and O2 Announce Network Sharing Deal

Pooling base stations will save money and could reduce the environmental impact of mobile networks in Europe, say the operators

16 years ago

Gartner: Storage Should Get To Basics

It's no good waiting for technology to save you. Storage problems can be fixed with simple good management, says Valdis…

16 years ago

AT&T Launches Smart Grid Despite Hacking Concerns

Security consultants have engineered a worm which can bring down smart grids - while AT&T launches a product and the…

16 years ago

Rackable Lets Datacentres Run At 40 Degrees

Rackable Systems is targeting cloud computing with a high-density server enclosure called the CloudRack C2

16 years ago

Get Real, Reding: ICT Can’t Save The World!

The EU may call for ICT to lead the way to a low-energy future, but in the real world, ICT…

16 years ago

Recession Or No, We Are In It For The Long Haul

While all around are making short term decisions, you have to keep you head, and make sure your long term…

16 years ago