Energy Usage
45 Stories
Energy-aware Internet routing coming soon
News Researchers say they have developed routing algorithm that can help big Internet companies reduce their energy bills by millions of dollars.
Tags: Green IT, Energy, Cisco Systems Inc., Akamai Technologies Inc., Energy Usage, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Carnegie-Mellon University, networking company, researcher, Internet
Green IT isn't dead yet
Insight perspective The recession is dampening many areas of IT--but not environmental impact. An analyst looks at how cost-cutting and green go hand in hand.
Tags: Green IT, Infrastructure/architecture management, Budgeting/cost control, IT budgeting, Green IT, Organization, Hosting Company, Carbon Footprint, cost savings, Quocirca
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
IBM looks to bridge worlds of IT and electricity
News The company's top hardware executive Bill Zeitler plans to call for co-marketing with utilities to promote data center efficiency incentives.
Tags: Data centers, Green IT, IBM Corp., Virtualization, Energy Usage, energy efficiency, program manager, Edison Electric Institute, Con Edison Communications, information technology
ICT causing UK govt to miss green targets
News A report has pointed to information and communications technology as one cause of the U.K. government's failure to meet its own carbon reduction targets.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Infrastructure/architecture management, IT Governance, Carbon Emission, Information And Communication Technology, computer, sustainable development, Server, public sector, carbon dioxide
IT essential for businesses' green success
Insight perspective IT is becoming ever more closely linked with organizations' environmental impact. An analyst offers energy-saving tips for IT managers.
Tags: Green IT, IT Governance, Accommodation, Storage, Hardware, IT administration, data center, program director, user behavior, IT Governance
Microsoft crunches numbers on energy, carbon
News Part of an environmental sustainability push, Microsoft updates is Dynamics packaged applications for midsize companies to tally energy use and to calculate greenhouse gas emissions.
Tags: Green IT, Software, Microsoft Corp., Energy, Carbon Emission, Renewable Energy, electricity grid, Dynamics AX Application, Environment, energy efficiency
Expert tips on implementing green data centers
Techguide Data center managers weighing in on how to make facilities more green, or building a case to convince executive management to do so, may find this guide handy.
Tags: Green IT, Data centers, E-waste, Server, Thin Client, U.S., data center, KWh, Benefit, Green IT
Hacking down on video game energy use
News The Nintendo Wii tops the list as most energy-efficient game console in a study which recommends console industry adopt easy-to-use power-management features.
Tags: Green IT, Games, Video Game, Gamer, Video, greenhouse gas, Microsoft Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii, hacking, carbon dioxide
Intel to host smart-grid standards confab
News The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers will hold its first smart-grid standards meeting bringing together people from the power, IT and communications industries in June.
Tags: Green IT, Intel Corp., Standards, Grid, IEEE Standard, electricity grid, network, industry, information technology, solar energy
Asia moving to smart grids, cautiously
News Region's governments are mulling or preparing to trial smart grid technology, whilst keeping an eye on security risks associated with the new infrastructure.
Tags: Infrastructure/architecture management, Government, Web 2.0, Security, Asia, Cisco Systems Inc., Philippines, Singapore, Grid, grid computing
Google dribbles out PowerMeter smart-grid service
News Google partners with smart-meter manufacturer and eight utilities to offer its Web-based application for monitoring home energy use.
Tags: Green IT, Consumer Technology, Telecommunications, Google Inc., monitoring, billing, Web Site, telecommunications company, Web, Green IT
Asian telcos step up 'green' in 2009
News Green will be a "high priority" for the region's telcos going forward as they seek to cut costs and ride out the downturn, note industry observers.
Tags: Green IT, Infrastructure/architecture management, LANs and WANs, Network infrastructure, Ovum, Mobile, SingTel, Telecommunications, Wireless, Spokesperson
Cisco: Smart grid will eclipse size of Internet
News Cisco, whose hardware is at the core of the Internet, is readying communications gear for utilities, businesses, and consumers to modernize the electricity grid.
Tags: Green IT, Security, Utility, Cisco Systems Inc., IP, Grid, electricity grid, network, Internet, industry
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
