Corporations now depend on computing resources to handle everything from mission-critical financial transactions to storing vast amounts of patient information. Data center facilities are under pressure to flawlessly add significant, reliable computing power.
While blades have addressed some of these challenges, IT administrators are wondering, “Am I getting enough power to the blades?” “Do I have excess capacity?” and “Am I getting enough cooling to those racks?”
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Everyone loves OLEDs, but no one knows how to make big ones. Kateeva says it can help.
The computing giant is researching lithium-air batteries, a technology with much promise but many challenges for commercial applications. Also in the works is a supercomputer cooled with water at the chip level – something IBM says could apply to broader data center cooling.
Intel's new Moorestown platform aims to reduce idle power use by mobile internet devices fifty-fold compared to previous platforms. It's also working on "sleep-state networking" for PCs and laptops and other power-saving advances.
Ken Gonzalez, group product manager, Symantec Global Services, lays out the case for green IT.
Energy storage: It's the most popular concept right now with energy VCs. And some in Washington want to goose the market with incentives.
The wireless sensor startup says it can collect energy usage data from its own sensors and any others that use SNMP and present it in one interface. Can one screen rule them all?
Hara, which makes software for tracking natural resources, is only about 18 months old, but Coke is rolling out the software around the world. Smells like an acquisition candidate to me.
The environmental group issues a report card that says IT companies such as IBM, Intel and Sony aren't doing enough to fight climate change and cut the world's 2020 emissions by 15 percent, a goal that is achievable if IT companies just put more efforts into it.
A survey of more than 1,000 high-level IT leaders from companies in North America, Europe, Asia and Latin America shows that nearly three-quarters are increasing budgets to make IT less power-hungry.
Server makers have struggled for years to get IT managers to upgrade their hardware faster. Energy prices might do the trick.
Fluorescent bulbs aren't going anywhere soon, so to cut power consumption, Lumenergi is touting a dimmer switch
Utility rebates, along with dropping component prices, are allowing thin client companies to deliver desktops that cost less than a deluxe wireless mouse.
The power consumption label looks at what servers do when in idle. Still, having the rating could mean rebates. Also, do thin clients really cut power consumption?
High-tech giants like Cisco, Intel and SAP have made several pronouncements about getting into green technology. By buying carbon management company Clear Standards, you can say the shopping spree has begun.
The list ranks who we think will be the most important and influential buyers in greentech. Some will buy for their operations while others will mostly have influence on their own suppliers.
Fortune Data Centers says it has found energy efficiency gold in using concrete slab floors and industrial water-cooling systems in its newly opened San Jose data center.
Food and Bev, retail and financial services top the EPA's list of 50 green power buyers, but the biggest buyers are Intels of the world and government agencies.
Cutting IT energy use starts with simple steps like switching from PCs to thin clients, using virtualization to increase server utilitization and using fewer printers per employee, according to the U.K.'s CIO.
More companies are looking into power management software when cutting costs. And the recession is only increasing the need, says a new Forrester study.
The data center industry group has released online tools and maps to help data center operators learn if using outside air for cooling is right for them. Using outside air to replace power-hungry chillers is gaining more widespread acceptance.
Supply-chain logistics is a lot like playing The Sims. IBM will use its know-how to whittle carbon out of its products.