Green-IT

IT Staff Ignorant About Server Utilisation Rates

A survey sponsored by 1E and the Alliance to Save Energy found that one in six servers—about 4.7 million worldwide—are…

15 years ago

Bill Gates Pushes GM Crops As Cure For World Hunger

Bill Gates announces during a keynote address at Iowa's World Food Prize event that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation…

15 years ago

UK Troops In Afghanistan Want Solar Gadgets

MOD announces a new scheme to get troops the gifts they need in the run-up to Christmas - and solar…

15 years ago

HP Discusses Green Data Centre Progress

With data center power and cooling costs becoming a key issue for businesses, vendors such as Hewlett-Packard are using their…

15 years ago

UK Companies Offered Carbon Management Widget

The software could help managers and employees cut wasted energy from idle PCs

15 years ago

Dell Says Efficiency Drive Will Shrink IT Industry By £125Bn

Michael Dell aims to cut spending on IT by end user companies by pursuing the concept of the efficient enterprise

15 years ago

1E Launches Energy-Saving Server Software

PC energy saving company branches out into servers and makes non-productive ones drowsy

15 years ago

Twitter And Wikipedia Smash Pollution Gagging Order

An attempt to prevent media discussion of waste-dumping in Cote d'Ivoire by Trafigura was broken by a mass Twitter campaign

15 years ago

Mandelson Promises £80 Million – For Innovation, Not Cappucino

Business secretary Mandelson disses cappucino-drinking creatives, but is criticised for not pushing fibre harder at London conference

15 years ago

D-Link Expands Energy Saving Switch Range

The switch-maker says that it has added another range of power-saving switches to its product line-up

15 years ago

VeryPC Talks Sustainable With Broadleaf Range

A British firm is touting a new new range of green desktops which it calls the most energy efficient PCs…

15 years ago

IT Must Take Climate Lead, Say EC and UK Government

If CIOs can't save the planet, no one can, says a UK green government champion tells eWEEK

15 years ago

Mauritius’ Sea Water Cooled Data Centre: Not Just a Drop in the Ocean?

The island country of Mauritius is using sea water cooling in its bid to become a major outsourced data-centre player

15 years ago

Toxic Vendors Will Need Standards to Clean Up Their Act

Corporate accountability director says the recent green leaf Apple turned over is only a small step along a long road…

15 years ago

Government Denies Price Hikes Will Negate Smart Grid Savings

Despite estimates that energy prices could increase by as much as 60 percent, the government has said smart metering could…

15 years ago

VMWare Responds To “Green” Hydroelectric Criticism

Environmentalists have criticised VMWare's choice of hydroelectric power for the damage damming causes salmon stocks and local communities

15 years ago

Iomega Launches Green NAS Device

Iomega's latest offering to storage-seekers, announced on 7 Oct, is the double-drive StorCenter ix2-200 desktop machine, which is a bit…

15 years ago

EC Calls For €50bn Green Tech Investment

Investments in green tech will need to increase from €3 to €8 billion per year

15 years ago

Apple and Sony Praised For Toxic Progress

Seven companies have been singled out for their progress on cutting toxic chemical compounds in hardware

15 years ago

Google Bypasses Utilities With Smart Meter Partnership

Consumers can get "smart" information on power use without having to involve their utility, says the search specialist

15 years ago

Environmentalists Dispute VMWare’s “Green” Hydroelectric Claims

The virtualisation specialist claims its latest data centre is "the gold standard" for green design powered as it is solely…

15 years ago

Cisco Launches German Smart Grid Project

Cisco is partnering with a German electric company, Yello Strom, in a smart grid project designed to create a system…

15 years ago

Consumers Demand Minimum Smart Meter Standards

With a 2020 target set for smart meter roll out to UK households and businesses, organisations including the Energy Saving…

15 years ago

Carbon Rules Will Create “Energy Tsars” Says Analyst

The UK government's CRC carbon trading regulations will create new power-brokers - executives whose job is to co-ordinate corporate energy…

15 years ago

HD Video Conferencing Services Launched

As Cisco looks to extend the reach of its high-definition video conferencing capabilities by buying Tandberg, rival LifeSize Communications is…

15 years ago

Green Grid Offers Free Cooling Tools

New free online tools and maps designed for use by data centre and facilities managers in Japan and 33 European…

15 years ago

UK Scientists Use Nasa Data To Investigate Global Warming

Working with millions of NASA satellite measurements, researchers from the British Antarctic Survey and the University of Bristol find dynamic…

15 years ago

Firms At Risk From Excel-Based Carbon Management

Simple spreadsheets will not meet the carbon accounting requirements of the UK's CRC regulations, warns analyst firm Verdantix

15 years ago

Cisco To Acquire Video Conference Specialist Tandberg

The networking giant has made an offer of $3bn (£1.9bn) for its Norwegian rival in the market for video calls

15 years ago

MOD Rolls Out Smart Meters Despite Security Concerns

Defence sites across the UK will be fitted with energy efficiency monitoring technology despite security concerns raised by experts about…

15 years ago