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Recently a Cisco official was quoted as saying that the Smart Grid will be 1,000 times as large as the Internet. That quote, says the Cisco official, was inaccurate -- but she has plenty of good...
In this excerpt from a longer interview with IBM data center architect John Lamb, the author walks through the steps companies should take when looking at energy efficiency projects, whether they'...
This report from the Climate Group finds that scaling up energy efficiency and renewable energy while avoiding deforestation can dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the short term, and...
Yahoo! today said it will no longer purchase carbon offsets for its operations, focusing its climate strategy on reducing the energy used by its data centers.
More bad news on the security front for the Smart Grid: The Wall Street Journal reports that the electric utility industry is negotiating with a defense contractor to determine whether spies from...
Certain principles can be broadly applied across industries. Take the principle of load diversity and full capacity utilization. This principle is used to great effect in the power sector, data...
A new report from CDW Government finds that although awareness of virtualization's cost and environmental benefits is widespread in government agencies, only 20 percent are actually putting the...
There's been plenty of hype about the Smart Grid -- some justified and some not. But the gold award for Smart Grid hype has to go to Cisco, whose spokesperson last month said that the grid could...
In this response to an earlier blog post by editor Preston Gralla, the coordinator of Greenpeace's Cool IT Challenge explains how the campaign is trying to push companies on the policy front to...
In partnership with ETH Zurich, IBM has unveiled a new kind of high-performance computer that cuts energy use by 40 percent and CO2 emissions by 85 percent.
The Smart Grid is the hottest thing in Green IT these days, attracting not just lots of press, but attention from heavyweights like Cisco, IBM, Intel, and Google -- but there's some evidence that...
A new report from Forrester Research outlines the 15 "Green IT 1.0" technologies that are helping IT managers clearly define and achieve business and environmental benefits through smart...
The Santa Clara, Calif.-based data center has become the first building in the city to earn a LEED-Gold certification.
Think that solar power can't power data centers? Think again. i/o Data Centers, an IT infrastructure provider in Phoenix is in the process of deploying a massive array of solar panels that will...
An audit by U.S. Department Energy's Office of the Inspector General of seven facilities, including DOE headquarters, concluded that better management of IT resources could have saved at least $1....
Think virtualization in a data center, and you most likely think of the latest generation of multi-core chips, such as Intel's recently released Nehalem-EX processor, which comes with eight cores...
The city of Holyoke, with its ready source of cheap, relatively clean hydroelectic power, will host a new, energy efficient data center that will bring innovation and jobs to the city.
With a PUE of 1.2, the new data center designed by Keysource for Petroleum Geo-Services has cut its energy costs almost in half using already-existing technologies.
Greenpeace recently made headlines with its "CoolIT Challenge" in which it issued a scorecard about the green IT actions of top technology vendors such as IBM, Dell, Sun, Intel, and Cisco....
KPMG, one of the “Big Four” public accounting firms, has embraced green IT to help the company reduce its carbon footprint. The jewel in the crown of its efforts is a new technology center with a...
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