Green-IT

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

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

Haiti Gets 1,000 Solar Mobile Phones

Solar-powered phones could keep aid workers and survivors in touch, despite the lack of basic infrastructure

15 years ago

OLPC To Send Rugged Laptops To Haiti

The low-cost laptop specialist OLPC has become the latest tech company to pledge help after the earthquake in Haiti

15 years ago

Greening The Data Centre – What You Need To Know

From HVAC to rack density to hot/cool aisles, eWEEK looks at the computing models and energy-saving practices to focus on…

15 years ago

Wyse Launches New Mobile Thin Client

Wyse has unveiled a new mobile thin client, powered by Intel's Atom processor, aimed at mobile staff looking to utilise…

15 years ago

IBM Chief Executive Lays Out Smart System Vision

In a recent speech in London, IBM chairman, president and CEO Sam Palmisano laid out IBM's vision of the next…

15 years ago

IBM Says Green Spending Lets Companies Save Long Term

IBM figures that for every dollar saved in energy drawn from the wall, a company saves £4 to £6 in…

15 years ago

Google’s Bid To Resell Power Is Primarily Capitalistic

Google Energy has asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for the right to buy and resell electricity to consumers as…

15 years ago

Alcatel Lucent Vows To Boost Network Efficiency 1000-Fold

The Green Touch consortium, led by Alcatel Lucent's Bell Labs, promises it can cut the energy used by the world's…

15 years ago

Green IT Investments Return Despite Uncertain Recovery

In its quarterly look at green IT, Forrester found that as the global recession begins to ebb, businesses are starting…

15 years ago

US Provides £30m Of Green Data Centre Grants

HP, IBM and Yahoo were among the recipients of grants from the US Department of Energy for projects aimed at…

15 years ago

Greenpeace Tracks Down E-Waste Trail

Greenpeace says that IT vendors must do more to make tech products more sustainable and less toxic

15 years ago

MOD Deploys Green Driving Tech

Driver monitoring system and in-vehicle coaching should mean safer and greener driving, says the Ministry of Defence

15 years ago

IBM Makes 2010 Smart City Predictions

IBM offers a series of five predictions about how cities will grow smarter and what technologies will aid in that…

15 years ago

Kingston Adds Liquid Cooling To DRAMs

Liquid cooling, used to make servers greener, will be offered to hobbyists for faster plug-in DRAMs by Kingston

15 years ago

Researchers Look To Body Heat As Power Source

Researchers have developed a device that “harvests” the waste heat from human bodies and converts it into usable power for…

15 years ago

Latest OLPC Design Resembles Potential Mac Tablet

The tablet follow-up to the $100 laptop appears to follow a similar design to that mooted for Apple's rumoured touch-screen…

15 years ago

UN Secures IT’s Role In Limited Copenhagen Agreements

Even getting IT on the agenda at the UN talks was a "painful challenge" according to insiders

15 years ago

IT Firm Aims To Make Buildings Green

Telent plans to cut costs by making buildings smarter, uniting heating and lighting with IT, and modernising the facilities management…

15 years ago

Companies Warned About Christmas Switch Off

If British businesses were to switch off their electronic equipment in empty offices during the Christmas period, they could save…

15 years ago

IBM And Vodafone Use Mobile Tech To Combat Malaria

IBM and Vodafone are using SMS and web technology to manage the supply of anti-malarial drugs in Tanzania

15 years ago

Wind-Powered Data Centre Launched in Illinois

Other World Computing (OWC) has become the first US data centre operator to run its entire operation using an on-site…

15 years ago

Bluetooth Group Formally Adopts Low Energy Standard

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) has quietly issued a new set of standards that will allow low-powered devices, such…

15 years ago

Green Atom PC Launched To Tackle Digital Divide

Cherrypal, a socially conscious, green PC maker, introduces a $99 (£61) netbook with an Intel Atom processor

15 years ago