Green-IT

Data Centre Measure Rates Transactions Per Joule

Power Assure says PAR4 measures how much work your servers do. Doesn't SPECpower already do that?

14 years ago

UK Fuels e-Waste Black Market

An investigation found British e-waste made its way illegally to African nations for disposal

14 years ago

Graphene Flashes 3D Movies In Under A Second

Researchers develop light modulator to transfer Gigabyte files in less than a second

14 years ago

Calls For Emission Action As Defra Launches Consultation

The government is being urged to take the lead on carbon emissions as Defra launches its consultation

14 years ago

Duplicated Green Standards Are Doubly Wrong

If Green IT is all about efficiency and cutting waste, then why are organisations duplicating their efforts, asks Peter Judge

14 years ago

Google To Venture Into Home Automation

Google's new Android@Home feature allows users to control their home appliances with an Android phone

14 years ago

Gov’t Warns Of Climate Change Threat To Wi-Fi

Intense rainfall or high temperatures disrupt Wi-Fi networks, leading to a communications breakdown

14 years ago

Universal Charging Standard To Include Tablets, Cameras

The ITU has updated its standard for a universal charging solution but it looks like it's different from the EU…

14 years ago

Engineers Develop Voice-Powered Phone Charging

Engineers in South Korea are investigating a new way to charge mobile phones, using the human voice

14 years ago

State Of UK Data Centres Could Threaten Growth

UK data centres must improve if the country is to remain a financial powerhouse, Quocirca warns

14 years ago

Liquid Cooling Gets Sun Co-Founder’s Backing

Hardcore Computer is in Europe promoting the green benefits of liquid cooling, with advice from Scott McNealy

14 years ago

Modular Data Centres Are Cheaper To Build

The cost of data centre construction can be reduced using Colt's modular data centre design approach

14 years ago

MCDC Invests £250m In Data Centre Developments

Matterhorn Capital's data centre division is constructing state-of-the-art sites in the south east of England

14 years ago

Facebook Data Centre Strategist Logging Out

Jonathan Heiliger, instigator of Facebook's green data centre initiative, is leaving at the end of summer

14 years ago

How Green Are The Grassroots?

If organisations want to meet carbon targets they will have to get their staff involved. Peter Judge asks if a…

14 years ago

SAP Makes €170m Sustainability Savings

SAP has proved that investment in low-carbon technologies can pay off, with savings of €170m since 2008

14 years ago

Dirty Data Centre Will Poison Apple Greenpeace Warns

Apple is set to produce some of the dirtiest data in the world in North Carolina, according to Greenpeace

14 years ago

Green IT Gets Real As The Hype Disperses

Mindless publicity distorted the Green IT message, says Andrew Donoghue. Now it's time to get real, and use green tools…

14 years ago

Google Ploughs £70m Into World’s Largest Wind Farm

Google has followed its solar investments with funding for a giant wind farm

14 years ago

Greenpeace Praises Facebook’s Solar Effort

Facebook gets a cheer for using a bit of solar energy, but Greenpace isn't satisfied yet

14 years ago

Cisco Opens Green Data Centre In Texas

Cisco's new data centre will be a showcase for technologies to reduce power and cooling costs

14 years ago

Report: Apple Poaches Microsoft Cloud Executive

Apple has poached a Microsoft cloud computing and green data centre executive, say reports

14 years ago

Turnkey Ubuntu-Based Linux for Amazon Cloud: Review

The Turnkey Linux service runs on Amazon Web Services and is good for test driving cloud apps

14 years ago

Each PC Holds £432 Of Unused Software

The UK could save £1.7 billion a year by reclaiming unused software licences, says 1E

14 years ago

Google Invests £100m In Mojave Desert Solar Tower

Google's largest investment in clean energy is £103 million in a desert solar energy plant

14 years ago

Fourteen Face Court For Flouting WEEE Rules

Fourteen defendants will face court accused of breaking WEEE rules over the export of electrical waste

14 years ago

EvoSwitch Unveils Adiabatic Data Hall

EvoSwitch's Amsterdam data centre has a new modular, carbon neutral data hall

14 years ago

Facebook’s Open Compute Gets Discussion Going

When Facebook opened up its green data centre ideas, it also opened up a big discussion which could provide more…

14 years ago

Intel’s Oak Trail Processor Wrestles ARM In Tablets

Intel's Atom Z670 processors are thin and efficient, but most importantly they can run Windows on tablets

14 years ago

European RFID Guide Sets NFC Privacy Guidelines

The PIA Framework is a guide to how privacy concerns should be accounted for in NFC implementations

14 years ago