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Going green: A guide for CIOs
Comment Most organisations report only high-level green metrics, such as overall or function-wide energy consumption. Second, IT can make internal changes that cut its energy consumption levels... [21 Oct 2009]
CIOs waste energy and budget as one in six servers go unused
News As many as 4.7 million servers worldwide - more than 15 per cent of the global total - are merely consuming energy without serving any productive purpose, according to a study sponsored by IT power management company 1E. [19 Oct 2009]
It's down to you to save the world, IT industry
News The ICT industry must lead the way in conserving energy and reducing carbon emissions, according to the EC. In a recommendation adopted by the Commission last week, it called on the ICT sector to become 20 per cent more... [13 Oct 2009]
University Improves Performance, Provisioning; Cuts Costs With Virtualization
White Paper Using the Windows Server 2008 Enterprise operating system with Hyper-V technology and Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008, UVV cut server provisioning from four weeks to several hours, reduced data center... [02 Oct 2009]
Battery Technology for Data Centers and Network Rooms: Lead-Acid Battery Options
White Paper The lead-acid battery is the predominant choice for Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) energy storage. Over 10 million UPSs are presently installed utilizing Flooded, Valve Regulated Lead Acid (VRLA), and... [01 Oct 2009]
British Airways Makes Business-Critical Systems Unbreakable and Lowers Total Cost of Ownership
White Paper The challenge was to cut system management overhead, reduce hardware costs, and optimize data center efficiency to lower energy consumption. British Airways plc (BA) migrated 35 live databases on 20 clusters, each... [30 Sep 2009]
Which UPS is right for the job?
White Paper Energy efficiency The UPS operates in a very high-efficiency mode unless power conditions warrant a switch to the higher protective level typical of double-conversion mode. Traditionally, data center... [29 Sep 2009]
Photos: Inside Big Blue's big green datacentre
Photo The crux of IBM's energy management system is a network of 200 sensors that monitor temperature behind, in front of, and above servers. The centre is beta testing an upcoming version of its Tivoli monitoring software,... [22 Sep 2009]
A world where your every moment is recorded is coming
News What file system should you choose for your photos, GPS location logs, energy consumption measurements, and blood pressure records? The authors have high hopes: "higher productivity, more vitality and... [21 Sep 2009]
More of a whimper than a bang: Whitehall's green tech drive
News So far 110 public bodies have produced green ICT action plans establishing measures for improving the energy consumption and carbon cost of their ICT, using 22 specific actions recommended in the Greening Government ICT... [16 Sep 2009]
Power Efficiency & Management in Windows Server 2008 R2 - In Brief
White Paper Energy-efficient computing is a high priority for businesses and organizations seeking to control costs and greenhouse emissions. One opportunity for an organization to reduce power usage is to implement... [16 Sep 2009]
Piecewise Planar Stereo for Image-Based Rendering
White Paper The novel energy minimization formulation exploits high-level scene information. This paper presents a novel multi-view stereo method designed for image-based rendering that generates piecewise planar... [16 Sep 2009]
Big Blue wants tech to get water management flowing
News The high energy cost of delivering water helps makes the economic case for better monitoring and data analysis. IBM launched Big Green Innovations two and a half years ago to capitalise on constraints in... [08 Sep 2009]
The Multi-Tiered Hybrid Data Center: An Innovative Design Model for Cost Reduction and Facilities Optimization
White Paper By helping today's enterprises work within tightened budgetary constraints and realize more cost-effective and energy-efficient operation - while accommodating their continuing need to house higher- and lower-tiered... [30 Aug 2009]
PermaDAQ: A Scientific Instrument for Precision Sensing and Data Recovery in Environmental Extremes
White Paper Aspects of high-quality data acquisition, design for reliability by strict separation of operating phases and analysis of energy efficiency are discussed. The PermaSense project has set the ambitious... [29 Aug 2009]
