Green-IT

From 2010, Legislation, Not Cost, Will Drive Green IT

Environmental laws will replace cost cutting as the main motivation for developing energy efficient data centres, says analyst Gartner

15 years ago

Ballmer Says Recession WIll Drive Efficiency

CEO Steve Ballmer uses the pulpit of a Microsoft event in San Francisco to discuss a so-called new efficiency that…

15 years ago

MIcrosoft Makes Green Claims For Windows 7

Microsoft has been pushing Windows 7 as greener than Vista or XP, designed with a variety of energy-saving options for…

15 years ago

Emissions Reduction: A Question Of Baselines?

Is it reasonable to ask IT companies to compare their carbon emissions against a 1990 baseline? Green campaigners want to…

15 years ago

HP Claims Oil Profits Don’t Tarnish Green Image

Computer maker Hewlett-Packard says its environmental practices date back 50 years although it only began measuring carbon emissions in 2005

15 years ago

Tesco Adopts CA Software For Carbon Audit

Retailer Tesco is using CA's ecoSoftware to manage its carbon emissions worldwide, with cap-and-trade laws due in the UK

15 years ago

Cheap Energy Leads To Waste, Warns Green Guru

The only way to curb emissions is to put up energy prices, former German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer told an…

15 years ago

HP Tightens Smart Grid Security

After recent hacking attempts on smart metering technology, HP  has launched a security audit for smart grid services

15 years ago

HM Treasury Signs With Fujitsu For Green IT

The Treasury is buying energy efficient Fujitsu servers, as part of wider moves to make government IT more sustainable

15 years ago

Dirty Apple Turns Over A New Green Leaf

Heavily criticised for the toxic substances in its PC manufacturing, Apple has announced a major new ‘green' push

15 years ago

Charity Moves Backup Away From The Cloud

The MS Society found that cloud based storage could not meet its needs for robust disaster recovery, so it brought…

15 years ago

NetSuite Targets SaaS App At iPhone

NetSuite customers with iPhones can now get their ERP data on the go, thanks to an application with the company's…

15 years ago

Microsoft, SAP And Accenture In Carbon Reporting Tie-Up

The Carbon Disclosure Project is partnering with Accenture, Microsoft and SAP to establish a new global climate change data reporting…

15 years ago

Al Gore Narrates Google Earth Tour For COP15

Green campaigner and former US vice president Al Gore is providing a voice for a 3D map of climate change,…

15 years ago

Greens Dispute Dell’s Carbon Cuts

Dell says it has cut its carbon emissions by 18 percent year on year - but climate scientists say it…

15 years ago

US Announces £88m Smart Grid Training Fund

US Energy Secretary Steven Chu has announced the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding for smart grid work force training…

15 years ago

Intel Looks To Create Energy Efficient “Microservers”

Intel officials say that demand is growing for servers that are small, relatively cheap and energy-efficient

15 years ago

Networks are sucking power: should you worry?

Power efficiency hax become a major factor for data centre equipment. While vendors compete on greenwash, users need to test…

15 years ago

Utilities Attack Ofgem Over Smart Grid Investment

Companies including Scottish Power claim they need more funding to make their networks "smart" enough to cope with renewables

15 years ago

Brown To Flashmob: I’ll Go To Climate Summit

Prime Minister Gordon Brown told a group of campaigners assembled outside Parliament, that he would personally go to the Copenhagen…

15 years ago

Cisco, Samsung Named In Carbon Savings Report

Tech companies have ranked highly in a report on carbon emission progress

15 years ago

UK Green Start-Up Gets Fujitsu Backing

UK start-up company Romonet has developed an open source Java-based simulator tool which will be deployed internally by Fujitsu

15 years ago

US City Becoming Centre For Green Jobs

California's most Southern city is quickly becoming one of the best places to work in technology

15 years ago

Green Transport Research Receives £1.8bn Funding

The legislation authorises long-term funding of public-private vehicle research, development, demonstration and commercial application activities in the US Department of…

15 years ago

IBM Brings Green IT Initiative To Iowa

The alliance is part of IBM's larger Smarter Planet initiative, which uses IBM technology to address sustainability issues

15 years ago

AT&T Named Most Sustainable US Carrier

An ABI Research report has named AT&T the top “green” US carrier, followed closely by Sprint Nextel

15 years ago

Cisco: Smart Grid Means Less Cash For Utilities

Cisco is continuing its push for a slice of the smart grid market and is working closely with utility companies…

15 years ago

Cisco: Smart Grids Mean More Security Risks For Utilities

Smart grids have been championed by governments around the world as a way to help utility companies and consumers cut…

15 years ago

IBM Brings Energy Efficient Technology To Utilities

IBM's SAFE platform is designed to give utilities a simple way to bring energy-efficient technologies to their operations, while giving…

15 years ago

HP Promises To Cut Enterprise Printers – For A Price

New HP division will cut the number of printers you have... if you sign up for a full printing service…

15 years ago