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RSS energy in news2010: The year your desktop goes virtual?
News Businesses' thirst for boosting their green credentials is also going to play a role in boosting desktop virtualisation takeup, as enterprises ask whether they can afford to continue running energy-hungry PCs rather than... [01 Dec 2009]
Jaguar races to fastest supercomputer glory with AMD's juice
News Housed at the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the Jaguar can reach a performance speed of 1.75 petaflop per second. AMD processors power the top three fatest supercomputers in the world,... [17 Nov 2009]
Westminster computing put on size-zero diet
News Thanks to the energy savings the software has made, the department achieved ROI on the cost of using the system in about six months. Other government energy-saving initiatives include the Department for... [13 Nov 2009]
Green IT: Thrifty CIOs should make it a priority
News Research group Forrester claims that 55 per cent of energy consumed by UK firms is outside of the datacentre, so centralising management of the desktop environment is essential. Cameron Green, green IT partnerships... [29 Oct 2009]
Keeping IT green in tough times
News This could involve introducing PC power management software - a relatively small technology implementation that could result in substantial savings on energy bills as well as a significant reduction in... [22 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]
IT chiefs ignoring datacentre energy use
News Datacentre and IT chiefs aren't paying enough attention to measuring, monitoring and modelling energy use in datacentres - and unless they do, they will not be able to cut their energy costs and meet... [25 Sep 2009]
Intel: How chip maker is tackling the changing datacentre
News But Maloney pointed out that each of these datacentre types have common requirements - performance, energy efficiency and virtualisation. At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, chip business chief Sean Maloney... [23 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? In Total Recall, the new book from Microsoft researchers Gordon Bell and Jim Gemmell,... [21 Sep 2009]
White House looks to the cloud for IT cost-cutting
News All told, this has resulted in a doubling of federal energy consumption from 2000 to 2006. The Obama administration on Tuesday announced a long-term cloud-computing policy intended to cut costs on infrastructure and... [17 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]
Big Blue wants tech to get water management flowing
News IBM launched Big Green Innovations two and a half years ago to capitalise on constraints in energy generation, carbon emissions, energy in the datacentre, and water. Upgrading the water utility... [08 Sep 2009]
IBM wins five-year BP contract to keep SAP apps slick
News In a statement, Tata touted its capabilities in the energy vertical. IBM and Indian outsourcing companies have won five-year contracts to manage and run BP's enterprise applications. The financial terms of the deal were... [27 Aug 2009]
Could new internet routing chop 40 per cent off Google's electricity bill?
News Datacentres consume a lot of energy, which costs operators like Google and Amazon millions of dollars to run each year. And now as more digital information is "virtualised" and accessed in the cloud, centralised... [19 Aug 2009]
