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Dell hits carbon neutral target
News Dell has invested $3bn annually into green energy and its consumption of green energy has increased almost tenfold to 116 million kWh in four years. Dane Parker, Dell's global environment, health and safety director, said the achievement reflects... [06 Aug 2008]
Desktop Energy Consumption A Comparison of Thin Clients and PCs
White Paper The purpose of this paper is to quantify one such cost: the cost of energy consumption of business desktop devices. Energy consumption is a major concern for businesses and the global population as a whole, and an important part of a bigger IT... [03 Jul 2008]
Ballmer: Microsoft says the future's green
News He said: "The lowering of energy consumption is as important for us as new uses of software and IT for the environment. Yello Strom's managing director Martin Vesper demonstrated a "Yello-saving counter" - a Vista widget that lets consumers monitor... [06 Mar 2008]
Shipping company to slash CO2 and power costs
Case Study The Cisco Wide-Area Application Services (Waas) system will allow it to replace two or more servers at each of its offices with a single Cisco router, cutting power consumption by about 30 per cent. This could mean a saving of 15 minutes working... [21 Feb 2008]
An Experimental Study of TCP's Energy Consumption Over a Wireless Link
White Paper This paper examines TCP's energy consumption behavior over wireless links and suggests improvements that result in significant energy savings. The various modifications and fine-tunings to TCP code suggested here help in conserving battery power at... [06 Dec 2007]
Virtualisation 'could save companies millions'
News Virtualisation can reduce the energy consumption and cut operating costs for companies adopting the technology, according to Butler Group's Infrastructure Virtualisation report. The Butler Group also estimates a power saving of the order of £78,000... [25 Sep 2007]
SmartSaver: Turning Flash Drive Into a Disk Energy Saver for Mobile Computers
White Paper Existing dynamic power management policies usually take conservative approaches to save disk energy, and disk energy consumption remains a serious issue. This paper proposes to make another highly desired use of the flash drive - saving disk energy. [23 Aug 2007]
Smart metering to shrink carbon footprints
News Other proposals being consulted on include plans for electricity suppliers to provide real-time visual display units - which enable customers to monitor their own energy use - on any new meters fitted from next year and to all households that... [06 Aug 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]
Why WFH isn't always so green
News The EST report urges homeworkers to consider a number of options to bring down power consumption when WFH, such as buying an energy savings mains controller which automatically switches off peripherals when the computer is off, making sure the... [04 Jul 2007]
Power Consumption in the Data Center: How NetApp Rises to the Challenge
White Paper Naturally, finding ways to reduce this energy consumption is of critical importance to data center managers, as energy is also a rising social and environmental concern. This paper outlines NetApp's space-saving technologies as well as their... [11 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. Saving cash, power and the planet while giving... [30 Apr 2007]
Energy Saving Scheduling for Embedded Real-Time Linux Applications
White Paper The problem of reducing energy consumption is becoming very important in the design of embedded real-time systems. To reduce energy consumption, one possible approach is to selectively slow down the processor frequency. [18 Apr 2007]
Dell touts energy-efficient servers
News The company said the models will cost about $100 more than mainstream Dell servers, arguing that they'll earn their keep by saving about $200 per year in energy costs. HP and IBM have programs to reduce data centre power consumption, and the US... [05 Dec 2006]
Power-hungry data centres prey on CIOs' minds
News Internally, Sun has taken a number of energy-saving steps, such as reducing energy consumption of its own data centres and having employees work at home, according to Douglas. David Douglas, Sun's vice president of eco-responsibility, said: "There... [11 Oct 2006]
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