efficiency consumption
Whitehall IT to be carbon neutral by 2020
News The Cabinet Office's Greening Government ICT report states energy consumption on the government estate has not been falling as much as expected, and IT is identified as a "certain contributor" - being responsible for around a fifth (20 per cent... [17 Jul 2008]
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]
Super scanners at UK airports
News It will look to use green technology in lighting efficiency and water consumption in new buildings, building on measures such as using rain and grey water recycling at Terminal 5. The airport operator is investing about £5m in energy efficiency... [09 Jul 2008]
Automotive Giant Boosts Efficiency
White Paper The company needed to streamline its procurement processes and consolidate its server infrastructure to help increase productivity, optimize business processes, and avoid wasted hardware resources and unnecessary energy consumption. [09 Jul 2008]
Credit Union Optimizes Infrastructure to Gain Efficiency, Attain Carbon-Neutral Status
White Paper For instance, the credit union uses Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 to share electronic documents, reducing paper consumption and making it easy for employees to quickly find the information that they need to serve members. [06 Jul 2008]
Ethernet Power Study of Cisco and Competitive Products
White Paper Heat dissipation is calculated in British thermal units (Btus)2 and is calculated as 3.41 Btus per W of power consumption. An efficient cooling system would consume approximately 0.33 Btus for every Btu cooled, leading to a power consumption of... [03 Jul 2008]
Unified Communications: Use Virtual Collaboration to Improve Environmental Sustainability
White Paper These include improvements in energy efficiency that can be achieved from the products and systems deployed internally; using the network as a platform to monitor, measure, and manage electricity consumption; and implementing solutions that... [02 Jul 2008]
Electrical Efficiency Measurement for Data Centers
White Paper In addition to reducing electrical consumption, efficiency improvements can gain users higher IT power densities and the ability to install more IT equipment in a given installation. Data center electrical efficiency is rarely planned or managed. [30 Jun 2008]
A Quantitative Comparison of High Efficiency AC vs. DC Power Distribution for Data Centers
White Paper This paper presents a detailed quantitative efficiency comparison between the most efficient DC and AC power distribution methods, including an analysis of the effects of power distribution efficiency on the cooling power requirement and on total... [30 Jun 2008]
Google: Server efficiency needs different approach
News Chipmakers have been applying lessons learned in mobile computing to servers in an effort to increase efficiency by lowering power consumption. Luis Barroso, a Google engineer who closely studies the company's power consumption, speaking at the O... [25 Jun 2008]
Photos: The solar powered speedster
Photo The CUER team, seen here, has been monitoring and analysing the solar power consumption and mechanical performance of Affinity using mobile workstations, handhelds and business notebooks provided by HP, which is sponsoring the team. [16 Jun 2008]
BT to cut CO2 emissions by 80 per cent
News By March next year the company will upgrade 90 data centres worldwide, about 25 of which are in the UK, cutting power consumption by 60 per cent using fresh air cooling and AC-DC power conversion. It will also ensure that a third of its product or... [03 Jun 2008]
Power down PCs to save millions, gov't told
News NightWatchman automatically shuts PCs down during non-working hours and can monitor daily PC power consumption and carbon emissions. The OGC is the Treasury office responsible for driving efficiency in public sector spending and says switching PCs... [22 May 2008]
EC backs tech for green future
News The Commission feels three areas should be focused on in this work: energy generation and distribution; monitoring of energy consumption in buildings; and moving to more energy efficient 'intelligent' lighting. [15 May 2008]
CIOs are driving the green agenda
News Fahy said the drive for efficiency at Lehman Brothers has meant the company has shifted to charging for internal services based on consumption - by calculating how much resource is required to run individual applications, instead of, say... [01 May 2008]
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