HP has ended Nokia's three year reign at the top of the Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics rankings
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Tech Firms Score Badly On CRC League Table
The Environment Agency's ranking of green companies shows IT firms need to clean up their act
Cloud Could Cut Electricity Bill By £1.2bn
Cloud can reduce emissions and energy consumption across the IT estate by 50 percent
Study Supports Global Warming, And Need For Good Data
New analysis of climate change data supports the theory that the world is warming up, but will it cool the warming debate, asks Peter Judge
HP Touts Low Energy Servers With Project Moonshot
A new industry program from HP is promising to drive the advancement of low-energy server technology
SNIA Releases Storage Power Efficiency Specs
The Emerald storage efficiency programme from the SNIA gets some teeth
China Builds Supercomputer With Home-Grown Chips
China has constructed an energy-efficient supercomputer using its own processor technology
UK Companies Risk Data Theft Through Dirty Dumping
Computer Aid warns that companies risk reputational damage by not disposing of IT equipment properly
ARM Challenges Intel With 64-Bit PC And Server Chips
The ARMv8 chip architecture will bring ARM into closer competition with Intel and AMD in server and PC markets
Facebook To Build Sustainable Data Centre In Sweden
Facebook is set to build a hydroelectric powered data centre just 62 miles south of the Arctic Circle
Red Hat Joins Facebook’s Open Compute Project
Red Hat has joined Facebook's project to make a greater use of open source hardware within new data centres
Cloud And Supply Chains Affect Emissions Targets
Ecodesk reports the inclusion of supply-chain emissions and cloud adoption distorts emissions totals
Air Traffic Controllers Use VDI For Flexible Working
Citrix and NATS are creating the largest cloud-based infrastructure in the UK transport sector
Government ICT Plan Becomes A Strategy Foursome
The government has started to add flesh to the bones of its radical ICT Strategic Implementation Plan
Wyse Touts Green Benefits Of Zero Client Computing
Wyse's Xenith zero clients use just a tenth of the power of traditional desktop deployments
Apple’s Green Plans Scorched By N Carolina Residents
Apple fails again to get on the right side of green even though it is building a solar power array
Nokia Phone Embedded In False Limb
A British man has an unusual implant - a smartphone dock embedded in his prosthetic arm
Big Data And Large Firms Cloud Green IT Issues
Costas Galonis, CTO of cloud provider Cirrus Stratus, says Google’s huge energy bills mask how green cloud computing can be
Firms Look To Data Centres For Carbon Savings
Carbon-concious businesses are increasingly turning to the data centre to meet their emission targets
Patents Reveal Apple’s Fuel Cell Research
Patents published by the US Patent and Trademark Office detail Apple's plans to make cheaper, lighter fuel cells
Oxford University Builds VMware Private Cloud
Oxford University will offer managed cloud IT services to other universities in Britain
IBM Adds Analytics, Cloud And Virtualisation Products
IBM’s rollout of 55 new and enhanced server and storage products target massive data handling
Microsoft Denies Humidity Changed Its Data Centre
Microsoft has gone modular in an Iowa centre, and denies reports that humidity caused the change
Boffins Create Algorithm To Run Data Centres
New formula shows how to keep users happy and keep the energy bills low by increasing server utilisation
The Next Sustainable Power Source: Your Body?
Fuel cells are being built that are small enough to be implanted in the body, says Eric Doyle. Could they replace mobile phone chargers?
Rising Energy Costs Boost Power Management
Savings made by businesses could increase five-fold by 2015
Ecodesk Shares Big Firms’ Green Strategies
Ecodesk is offering a free database containing the sustainability strategies of the world's largest companies
Green Tech Dominates Japan’s CEATEC Event
CEATEC offered a glimpse of some cool new gadgets, but the focus was largely on ways to save power, says Nicholas Kolakowski
Data Centre Spend To Surpass Pre-Downturn Level
Worldwide data centre hardware spending for 2011 is set to rise 12.7 percent from 2010, says Gartner
Green Data Centres Will Be Measured On Money
PUE and other efficiency measures are useful, but data centre owners are chasing money now, says Peter Judge