Green IT News
Swedish data center saves $1 million a year using seawater for cooling
A data center in Sweden has cut its energy bills by a million dollars a year using seawater to cool its servers, though jellyfish are an occasional...
Data centers show signs of 'green fatigue'
A new survey from the Uptime Institute suggests fatigue is setting in when it comes to making data centers greener, and it may be partly due to...
Networks in 2020: More traffic, less energy
Networks could use far less energy by 2020 even though they'll be carrying much more traffic, an industry group says.
Apple shows support for victims of Chinese earthquake
Apple has updated the Chinese strand of its website to offer respect to victims of the Sichuan Yaan earthquake, which has left over 200 dead and a...
Being green and the madness of crowds
Some time ago I had a call with a company that ran data centers they claimed were "green." Their argument for their greenness was they purchased...
Trade groups look for uses for recycled CRT glass
An electronics and a recycling trade group are looking for ways to reuse recycled cathode ray tube (CRT) glass from computer monitors and television...
Smartphone usage driving up greenhouse gas emissions: report
Exponential growth in the use of computers, smartphones and other networked devices could cause the environmental impact of the ICT sector to...
EBay develops 'miles per gallon' metric for data centers
There's a maxim in the data center business that you can't manage what you can't measure, and eBay has come up with the mother of all...
Fujitsu names UniCredit as first European customer for palm-scan authentication
Fujitsu Technology Solutions has named European bank UniCredit as the first major customer for its PalmSecure authentication system, which is on...
New SPEC tool to ID most energy-efficient servers
SPEC, the standards body for performance benchmarks, has released a new toolkit that should help customers choose the most energy-efficient server...
Microsoft joins Open Data Center Alliance
Microsoft has joined the Open Data Center Alliance, a user-led organization that aims to simplify the purchasing of data center and cloud services by...
Iceotope plumbs in immersively cooled servers for first customer
Iceotope's immersively cooled server racks are now in production, and the company has named its first customer. The University of Leeds, in the...
Intel releases Hadoop software primed for its own chips
Intel has released its own Hadoop distribution in a move intended to accelerate adoption of the big data platform while ensuring more of those...
HP's first 'Project Moonshot' server due next quarter
Hewlett-Packard's first low-power server for hyperscale computing environments, developed under a project it calls Moonshot, will go on sale next...
Facebook pushes a new model for buying servers
Facebook has proposed a new model for designing servers that it says will give businesses more choice in selecting components and a smarter way to...
E-waste firm convicted of falsely promising to recycle in the US
Electronic waste recycling firm Executive Recycling has been convicted of multiple crimes, including environmental violations related to illegal...
NEC data center units to use convection to cut power use by 30 percent
NEC is working on a new type of small data center unit that uses convection to slash power usage by a third, even in Japan's hot, sticky climate.
Apple drops, Wipro tops Greenpeace rankings
First-time surprise entrant Wipro tops the list of rankings in the 18th edition of the Greenpeace "Guide to Greener Electronics," with...
Dimension Data launches e-waste removal service to combat 'dirty dumping'
In many Western countries there are now more active mobile phones, tablets, and laptops than people, and it has been suggested that the average...
Google turns its data centers into an art show
Google is offering a look inside its data centers with a series of stunning photographs that would be more at home in an art gallery than a...
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