Energy Requirement
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Mobile operators need to be greener
News Operators can reap up to 40 percent energy savings "without doing too much" and not cutting energy requirements is almost "a criminal act", says analyst.
Tags: Green IT, Network infrastructure, LANs and WANs, Mobile/Wireless, Telecommunications Company, Energy Requirement, RFP, Optimization, renewable energy, alternative energy
A half-century of hard drives
Reviews The hard disk drive, invented by IBM 50 years ago, underpins modern computing and will continue to do so for a while yet. But how did today's data storage technology evolve, and what does the future hold?
Can anything tame the battery flames?
Insight A short circuit inside a lithium ion battery can lead to what's known in the industry as a "runaway thermal reaction". Michael Kanellos looks at the technology and safety issues.
Tags: Notebooks and tablets
Green your IT using power management techniques
Techguide By following a disciplined path and measuring results using metrics, IT heads can make the greening of IT using power management techniques an exercise in financial success and corporate responsibility.
Tags: Data centers, Green IT, PG&E Corp., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Green Grid, Server, energy efficiency, power management, data center, technique
Consider green project management for your projects
Techguide The model requires project managers to think green throughout their project and make decisions that take into account the possible impact on the environment.
Tags: Project management, Green IT
Hunt down buggy .NET code faster
Techguide Learn how you can use continuous integration to automate the build process and provide instant feedback on .NET coding errors, thus allowing you to spend your time on more important tasks.
Green IT--how CIOs can help
Insight perspective IT has a key role to play in making businesses more energy efficient. An analyst shares how.
Tags: Green IT, Infrastructure/architecture management, Green IT, Quocirca, Energy Usage, CIO, IT budget, energy efficiency, marketing, International Energy Agency
Five ways to greener storage
News Companies can make their data centers more energy-efficient or lower power consumption, and it doesn't have to cost an arm or leg, say industry watchers in Asia.
Tags: Storage management, Data centers, Storage software, Data Management, Hardware, Hitachi Ltd., Hewlett-Packard Co., Green IT, Virtualization, Asia-Pacific
Intel adapts to changes ahead
News If processors are going to continue to increase in performance, they'll have to be a lot more flexible in the future, the chipmaker says.
HP makes memory from a once theoretical circuit
News Several decades ago, a Berkeley professor said there should be a circuit that can remember what's happened to it. Now, HP is showing it actually exists.
Tags: Processors, Innovation, Hewlett-Packard Co., Chip, Cloud Computing, Memory, intellectual property, Oxygen, hard drive, chip designer
Google warns of spiralling energy costs
News Engineer says performance per watt of today's computers needs to improve, or electricity may cost more than the hardware.
Tags: Processors, Servers, Pricing
Intel's new chip family: Core Microarchitecture
News The chipmaker gives a name to the next-generation chip design that's at the heart of the company's fight against AMD.
Tags: Processors, Memory
