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Running Diskeeper and V-locity on SAN connected systems
Take a look at this white paper to learn more about how you can safely defrag your SAN connected systems with the help of Diskeeper and V-Locity.
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Software design linked to excess IT energy consumption
By addressing mobile apps and Website design, programmers and developers can aid in the drive for better energy efficiency.
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College trims energy consumption with nComputing thin clients
The computer science department at Santa Ana college used thin clients as the basis of a lab that is uses to test other green technologies and energy-saving best practices.
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Google fesses up to cloud energy consumption
The operational disclosure is notable, as mega-huge high-tech companies from Microsoft to HP to IBM vie to becoming leaders in the cloud computing movement.
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Industrial controls, motors get green makeover
Keeping industrial control and motor technology operating at optimal performance and energy-efficiency isn't exactly the world's sexiest topic. That's about to change, if start-up LineStream...
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What Google's exit means for energy management in the cloud
The results of some fairly high profile smart energy management projects (apparently successful) are due this week, but apparently Google didn't have the patience to wait. The giant Internet...
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Get more granular about electricity consumption with submetering
I have had many a conversation with managers at small-ish (or REALLY small) companies, who insist that they can't address some of the energy efficiency practices that I write about because they...
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When it comes to hardware innovation, we need more progress on eco-materials
It used to be that the big high-tech companies would crow about this or that latest feature or speed enhancement when attempting to one-up their rivals. Now, the competitive posturing is just as...
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Alcatel-Lucent 'radio' could cut mobile network energy in half
There is very little that we can do as a society to stop of the flood of mobile devices vying for wireless connections around the world. But what technology innovators CAN do is look for ways to...
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Will 2011 bring an enterprise SSD adoption breakthrough?
As I've written numerous times here in this blog, storage consolidation plays a vital role in the green IT movement, and solid state storage is often held up as one potential actor that could play...
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SmartPlanet: Real time monitoring of your energy consumption
Would you conserve energy if you could monitor your consumption by the hour? Lucid Design Group has developed new software that provides users with instant feedback on how much energy they're...
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Social network software for measuring energy consumption hour-by-hour
Described as a social network for buildings, the Building Network Dashboard from Lucid Design Group provides a way for managers to track consumption on an hour-by-hour basis. What makes the...
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22 top cities for green power
The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has named 22 cities of varying sizes to its 2010 Smarter Cities list for green power. And now I'm wondering why I ever moved away from Santa Cruz,...
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Intel gets personal about energy consumption management
If Intel has its way, its technology will soon be inside not just your personal computer but inside another piece of technology that is way more ubiquitous: the panel you use to control the heat...
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McKinsey: Saving energy could have huge economic impact
Forget carbon footprint measures for a moment. How much money could be poured back into the U.S. economy if people spent more time worrying about wasted energy consumption? McKinsey & Company...
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What Cisco’s EnergyWise technology means to Green IT
To date, IT pros have given very little attention to the “greening� of the network. Why? Three words: follow the money. According to recent Forrester research, the top motivation for pursing...
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Google to make monitoring energy consumption simple
Today Google announced that it has been working on something called Google PowerMeter -- a tool that will help you monitor and measure your energy consumption. Currently, most people simply pay...
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Energy monitoring (and control) in the palm of your hand
A while ago a friend showed me the Cent-a-Meter from Power2Save, it's a LCD that displays how much electricity your home is using in real time. Flip on the old plasma display and watch the Kw/h...
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Forrester: There's really no such thing as "green IT"
News flash. In a recent report called "Is Green IT Your Emperor With No Clothes?," market research house Forrester is advising IT managers to forget about the notion that there's any such thing as...
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Maybe 'lean' and not 'green' should be the rallying cry
We're being treated to all sorts of green data center management stats this month, which is handy, as I'm preparing a presentation for later this week. So, I'll take them one batch at a time....
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HP aims to cut PC energy use by 25 percent
Hewlett-Packard said Tuesday that it is aiming to cut the energy consumption of its desktops and notebooks by 25 percent by 2010. The HP announcement, delivered at the Consumer Electronics Show,...
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