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Green IT: Thrifty CIOs should make it a priority
News Under the scheme, organisations which use more than roughly £500,000 of electricity per year (including hotel chains, large local authorities and supermarket chains) will have to purchase allowances equivalent to their... [29 Oct 2009]
Keeping IT green in tough times
News It's never been easy being green, especially when it comes to electricity-hungry IT infrastructure. And in the midst of a recession, with cost cutting a priority, it's easy to let slide worthy targets such as becoming... [22 Oct 2009]
CIOs waste energy and budget as one in six servers go unused
News IDC said that while the amount of energy required to operate servers and datacentres declined slightly between 2007 and 2008 this was not enough to offset the spiralling energy costs, pushed up by increasing electricity... [19 Oct 2009]
Smart Metering for Electric and Gas Utilities
White Paper Utilities are seeking ways to keep electricity affordable despite rising demand that creates upward price pressures. Some jurisdictions have meter regulations that make it impractical to use a single meter for both gas... [19 Oct 2009]
Smart Grid Basics: Turning Information Into Power
White Paper The Smart Grid is a vision of a better electricity delivery infrastructure. Smart Grid implementations dramatically increase the quantity, quality, and use of data available from advanced sensing, computing, and... [19 Oct 2009]
Serve Prepaid Customers Without Prepayment Meters
White Paper The primary reason is that customers switching from credit card billing to prepayment almost always reduce their electricity consumption. Prepayment for electric, gas, and water is a way of life for many countries - and... [19 Oct 2009]
Smart Metering - Enabling Greater Energy Efficiency
White Paper The electricity industry is one of the few industries where unconstrained demand is starting to be actively discouraged. Smart metering is increasingly being seen as a tool through which regulators and network operators... [02 Oct 2009]
The Economic Benefits of Smart Grids and the Role of Communications
White Paper While many familiar items may be considered, it is unlikely that electricity would be included or even contemplated in most cases. Of the many 'important' items essential to daily existence, few would come close to the... [02 Oct 2009]
Power Distributor Switches Server Infrastructure and Cuts Costs
White Paper Powerco is New Zealand's second largest electricity and gas distribution company, servicing approximately 410,000 consumers across the upper central and lower central North Island. Powerco had previously maintained both... [02 Oct 2009]
Electrical Efficiency Measurement for Data Centers
White Paper The unfortunate result is that most data centers waste substantial amounts of electricity. Data center electrical efficiency is rarely planned or managed. Today it is both possible and prudent to plan, measure, and... [01 Oct 2009]
Electricity Authority of Cyprus Reduces Customer Query Response Times From Two Hours to Minutes
White Paper The Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC) wanted to establish a new system to resolve customer queries more efficiently and improve the speed and accuracy of customer billing. The challenge was to reduce the time and... [01 Oct 2009]
Shai Agassi
AS Profile Agassi's model sees the car industry mimic that of the mobile phone - by giving away the vehicles for free, suppliers can make money off the 'minutes' of electricity that users put into their car at dedicated filling... [30 Sep 2009]
Accuracy in Forecasting Amounts to Cost Savings in Delivery
White Paper From now on the Copenhagen-based energy company will predict the next day's consumption of electricity hour by hour. As of 1 March 2004, Copenhagen Energy (Kobenhavns Energi) was approved by Elkraft as a balance partner. [19 Sep 2009]
Second-Generation Collaborative Data Integration: Sustainable, Operational, and Governable
White Paper Recent climate changes and the rising price of electricity have led many people to revisit the sustainability of data centers. The system consolidations typical of a green data center require data integration. [16 Sep 2009]
Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V Live Migration
White Paper When demand on a VM changes, one can migrate it to a more powerful server with no downtime, or if demand has decreased one can migrate it to a server where the consolidation ratio is higher to conserve electricity usage. [16 Sep 2009]
