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New free online tools and maps designed for use by data centre and facilities managers in Japan and 33 European countries make it easy to calculate how much free cooling, is available for individual data centres, says The Green Grid
Working with millions of NASA satellite measurements, researchers from the British Antarctic Survey and the University of Bristol find dynamic ice thinning occurring in all latitudes in Greenland and intensifying on key Antarctic coast ...
The My Health Info beta service offers tools and widgets with which to organise and monitor health information stored in personal Microsoft HealthVault accounts
Simple spreadsheets will not meet the carbon accounting requirements of the UK's CRC regulations, warns analyst firm Verdantix
The networking giant has made an offer of $3bn (£1.9bn) for its Norwegian rival in the market for video calls
Defence sites across the UK will be fitted with energy efficiency monitoring technology despite security concerns raised by experts about the technology
Environmental laws will replace cost cutting as the main motivation for developing energy efficient data centres, says analyst Gartner
CEO Steve Ballmer uses the pulpit of a Microsoft event in San Francisco to discuss a so-called new efficiency that IT administrators must embrace in a difficult economy, and touted the cost-saving aspects of new Microsoft products
Microsoft has been pushing Windows 7 as greener than Vista or XP, designed with a variety of energy-saving options for both IT administrators and end users.
Is it reasonable to ask IT companies to compare their carbon emissions against a 1990 baseline? Green campaigners want to see it, but Peter Judge is not so sure
Computer maker Hewlett-Packard says its environmental practices date back 50 years although it only began measuring carbon emissions in 2005
Retailer Tesco is using CA's ecoSoftware to manage its carbon emissions worldwide, with cap-and-trade laws due in the UK
The only way to curb emissions is to put up energy prices, former German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer told an HP event
After recent hacking attempts on smart metering technology, HP has launched a security audit for smart grid services
The Treasury is buying energy efficient Fujitsu servers, as part of wider moves to make government IT more sustainable
Heavily criticised for the toxic substances in its PC manufacturing, Apple has announced a major new ‘green' push
Never mind security and cost. There's one question around cloud computing that could be a show-stopper, says Peter Judge. Do cloud services comply with regulations, and can you safely use them?
The MS Society found that cloud based storage could not meet its needs for robust disaster recovery, so it brought its data back in-house
NetSuite customers with iPhones can now get their ERP data on the go, thanks to an application with the company's SaaS suite
The Carbon Disclosure Project is partnering with Accenture, Microsoft and SAP to establish a new global climate change data reporting platform
Green campaigner and former US vice president Al Gore is providing a voice for a 3D map of climate change, before the UN Climate Conference
Dell says it has cut its carbon emissions by 18 percent year on year - but climate scientists say it should base its figures on older baseline dates
US Energy Secretary Steven Chu has announced the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding for smart grid work force training programs
Intel officials say that demand is growing for servers that are small, relatively cheap and energy-efficient
Power efficiency hax become a major factor for data centre equipment. While vendors compete on greenwash, users need to test their actual power usage
While some commentators dismiss cloud computing for security and regulatory reasons, other viewpoints are emerging at a virtual summit
Companies including Scottish Power claim they need more funding to make their networks "smart" enough to cope with renewables
Prime Minister Gordon Brown told a group of campaigners assembled outside Parliament, that he would personally go to the Copenhagen climate summit in December
Tech companies have ranked highly in a report on carbon emission progress
UK start-up company Romonet has developed an open source Java-based simulator tool which will be deployed internally by Fujitsu