Energy Efficient Ethernet is designed to slash power usage by powering down Ethernet links when idle but enable them to spring back to life when called upon.
Read more..Other advances are needed, including tight integration between IT gear and building management systems.
Companies that designed spacious data centers ended up wasting a lot of money, powering unnecessary infrastructure. Today's data-center design decisions all pivot around maximizing efficiency, while giving companies a path for future growth.
Read more..Banking in rural India has always been ridden with challenges, be it with telecom connectivity or availability of electricity. But Bank of India came up with a unique idea and brought core banking to 1,868 rural branches, despite the multiple challenges.
Read more..Carbon taxes or cap-and-trade systems both in the United States and abroad will cause fluctuation in energy prices; plus, they'll force companies to measure and report greenhouse gas emissions.
Read more..Fuel cells are highly reliable and environmentally friendly, making them attractive to companies that want a greener data center. But they aren't for everyone.
Read more..The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has launched its Energy Star program for data centers, meaning companies can start applying today to see if their facility qualifies for an Energy Star logo.
Read more..The Japanese electronics maker had committed to removing polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and brominated flame retardants (BFRs) from all its consumer electronics products by April 1, but the company didn't manage to meet that goal.
Reducing energy consumption in data centers is pushing vendors to explore an ever-growing range of ideas. Many are saying that biogas may offer a fresh alternative energy approach for IT managers.
Read more..This advance in battery technology could help maintain energy storage capacities for longer periods while making batteries safer by preventing excessive heating.
The Green Grid and its partners have recommended standard ways for data center operators to measure Power Usage Effectiveness.
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A datacenter makeover and migration can go wrong in many ways. Do as we suggest, not as we did.
Read more..Among dozens of red steel doors inserted in the rock face along corridors that create an elaborate subterranean honeycomb, you'll find Room 48, an experiment in data center energy efficiency. This data center is quiet, sans fans -- and energy efficient to the extreme. Room 48 is also being used to devise a geothermal-based environment that can be tapped to create efficient, low-cost data centers.
IT admins cite plenty of obstacles to embracing PC power management, but all of them can be overcome
Read more..If you can measure how much fuel and electricity you consume, the benefits of reducing energy use to the environment and to the bottom line are relatively straightforward. It's tempting for CIOs to focus first on IT, which often accounts for a large chunk of the energy bill. But you can't stop there.
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Energy Efficient Ethernet, or 802.3az in IEEE terminology, is an emerging standard designed to cut down on the energy used by Ethernet networks.
Read more..Sometimes, waiting for a long time can make the result all the sweeter. That's been the case at Tasty Baking Co. of Philadelphia, when it moved out of its cramped factory building and into a new state-of-the-art data center and bakery facilities across town. It's been an IT manager's dream.
You are likely spending more money on energy than necessary because of the inefficiencies created by over-capacity and poor airflow management
Read more..1E's new tool for making idle servers "drowsy" marks a step toward cutting energy waste
Read more..Small businesses transitioning to thin clients may not find the biggest cost savings in capital expenditure, according to PCConsultants managing director, Peter Caron.
Here are the ten areas where we, as the promoters of IT, can begin to communicate better with the CFO
Read more..Like the unfortunate person who continually diets but only seems to gain more weight, power-hungry data centers -- despite adopting virtualization and power management techniques -- only seem to be consuming more energy than ever. Data center operators and designers say power-proportional computing is the answer.
Through "global supply chain environmentalism," companies are essentially reducing the associated carbon footprint -- and, thus, the detrimental environmental impact -- of their products.
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Let's assume for a moment that Google's collection of Wi-Fi "payload" data really was unintentional. And that Google never used the data, didn't even know it was there and stored it securely. Is it actually a privacy leak if no one has looked at the private data?
By its very nature, business especially the auto industry cannot work in isolation. Rajesh Uppal shows the benefits of bringing suppliers and dealers on the same page as one's organization.
It took one ERP implementation and a series of crises for Sanjay Jain to realize the secrets of project success.
You can get data classification right, but still end up with wrong information or data that’s not in the form your business users want. And then you would not have done a great job.
Work-life balance doesn’t have to be a tightrope walk, as the CIO of the world’s third-largest spirit’s company tells you. Work with a merged calendar, he says. "It helps me ensure that no clashes — like birthdays — take place".
