consumption in comment and analysis
Time to green-light sustainable IT
Comment The current penchant for invoking green IT whenever data centre power consumption is mentioned may suit the goals of IT vendors with new power efficient kit to sell; but it does little to help address the bigger picture. [17 Jul 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 23.05.08
Round-Up The new machine will further squeeze its power consumption, the original XO laptop consumes 2W to 4W, compared with 20W to 40W for a standard laptop, and the XO2 will draw just 1W. If the thought of ermine-clad Lords gliding gracefully up and down... [23 May 2008]
RIM co-CEO: Qwerty is the next big thing
Comment And so a lot of innovation has gone into our products - we're the first to invent several technologies that have at least halved the amount of battery consumption of our products on an always-on connection. [16 May 2008]
Cost-cutting tops CIO priorities
Comment One new issue high among CIO priorities this year is green IT and the need to reduce the power consumption and carbon footprint of IT operations, while web 2.0, software as a service and service-oriented architecture also make it onto the list. [18 Apr 2008]
IT must be called to account over emissions
Comment Pressured by the environmentalists, the aircraft manufacturers and operators are pursuing new technologies and approaches to improve fuel consumption. It also showed 61 per cent of respondents do not see a reduction of power consumption as a core... [07 Apr 2008]
Virtualisation cuts carbon and servers
Comment That just leaves the problem of calculating power consumption, as Stewart Baines reports. For example, outsourcing consultancy Atos Origin built a power consumption and carbon production model for a representative data centre, explains chief... [21 Dec 2007]
How to baseline power consumption
Comment If you want to cut the amount of power your IT systems use, you first need to know current consumption. So there's a lot of adaptation that's taking place to help an organisation address the basic question of what the energy consumption is. [14 Dec 2007]
Itanium revisited - one year on
Comment It also offers demand-based switching to improve the power consumption of servers by dialling down the chip when not in use. Despite a high-profile launch, HP and Intel's Itanium chip has failed to make much of a splash. [13 Dec 2007]
Why must IT go green?
Comment The industry in the past has measured its progress by faster processors, bigger hard drives and ever smarter smart phones, oblivious to their energy consumption. However, there is a problem with directly equating the need to reduce energy costs and... [03 Dec 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: The last CD
Comment Finally, and best of all, this will all be achieved at a lower cost and power consumption, less raw material than anything that has gone before. Ask yourself this simple question: when was the last time you burned a CD and can you even remember the... [25 Oct 2007]
The greening of IT: Cooling costs
Comment The power consumption of data centres already poses severe problems for the UK's local distribution networks. Futurity Media's Stewart Baines looks at ways of reducing consumption. Data centres don't have to be power-hungry monsters. [21 Sep 2007]
Leader: How green is your (silicon) valley?
Leader There is a line of thinking that equates WFH with less travel, so it must be better for energy consumption and thus the environment. A report by the Energy Saving Trust has questioned the 'greenness' of working from home (WFH). [05 Jul 2007]
How tech can make us greener
Comment This can mean simply putting recycling bins around the office, reducing printed paper consumption, switching to compact fluorescent bulbs or switching off computer monitors at night. There are also improvements being made on the raw energy and... [24 May 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: NGNs - real or imaginary?
Comment My first (personal) experience of a NGN came with the arrival of the transistor which immediately reduced equipment sizes and power consumption, and increased the number of speech circuits per pair. Written on the Ipswich to London train and... [02 May 2007]
Leader: Why green is good for your career
Leader And there is plenty IT organisations can do - such as measuring power consumption, virtualising servers, turning off equipment after hours and reusing hardware within the enterprise and externally. The IT industry has long struggled to present a... [30 Apr 2007]
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