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ROUND ROCK, Texas -- Dell will design its laptops and desktops to consume 25 percent less energy by 2010 as part of its plan to become the greenest technology company on the planet.
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ATLANTA, Ga. -- The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers recently launched two guides to move these structures toward reduced energy consumption.
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BRUSSELS, -- The European Commission has identified three areas of the economy that can be improved through the use of efficient Information and Communications Technologies.
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FARMINGDALE, N.Y. -- As part of a new white paper, “Deciphering the EPA Report on Data Center Energy Efficiency,” AFCO created four tenets to give data center managers a starting point for tackling power efficiency challenges.
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OAKLAND, Calif. -- Research firm In-Stat looks at the energy efficiency of Local Area Network switches and the ways networking vendors are going green in a new study.
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OAKLAND, Calif. -- Miercom’s Certified Green program rates networking equipment based on several criteria, such as power efficiency, heat dissipation, cooling requirements, energy efficiency and overall product efficiency. Cisco Catalyst switches received the company's first certification.
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BERKELEY, Calif. -- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and processor maker Tensilica are working on making a cost-effective supercomputer for creating highly detailed climate models.
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OAKLAND, Calif. -- IBM is continuing its efforts to green data centers, bringing together vendors to support energy standards and creating new tools for data center users to monitor energy use.
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OAKLAND, Calif. -- Out of 205 IT decision-makers surveyed, almost three out of four have adopted virtualization for reasons ranging from saving energy to better security.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. -- The data center owner and manager has adopted the Power Usage Effectiveness metric and is measuring the energy efficiency of its data centers throughout the world.
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ORLANDO, Fla. -- Hiring a C-level 'Energy Czar' position and creating a corporate average data-center efficiency metric are among some of the top-level changes companies should adopt in order to make serious reductions in energy use and greenhouse gas emissions, according to a report released by the Uptime Institute and McKinsey.
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FOLSOM, Calif. -- The company's LiveImaging feature allows operators to gauge efficiencies in energy use, heating and cooling, humidity and pressure differentials, making possible on-the-fly adjustments to data center performance.
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REDMOND, Wash. -- The funding is part of the company’s Sustainable Computing Program, which focuses on energy efficiency and the “pay for play” principle where the amount of energy used by a computing device is proportional to the demand placed on it. The award recipients include University of Tennessee, Stanford, Harvard and University of Oklahoma.
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By James Murray, BusinessGreen
Published: April 28, 2008
LONDON -- New research from Sun Microsystems aims to allow firms to measure the carbon footprint of their emails.
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TORONTO, CANADA -- The online hardware and software retailer has launched a new EcoTech section devoted to EPEAT-certified products and solutions for saving electricity, reducing waste and other environmentally friendly computer products.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The organizations signed a memorandum of understanding to promote the greening of computer facilities and share best practices for replication with government agencies and industry.
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OAKLAND, Calif. -- We've been working long hours behind the scenes to make GreenBiz.com and our sister sites even more useful and information-packed. At last, here it is, and here's what new and improved about the sites.
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SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Hitachi Data Systems has unveiled plans for what it says will be the most power-efficient enterprise-class data center in the world.
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ST. LOUIS, Mo. -- Enterprise Rent-a-Car will finish switching out PCs for thin client terminals in its rental locations to streamline car rental transactions and slash energy consumption and emissions.
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PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Green computing is recognized as a priority for cutting costs and energy use, but many companies are still slow to make plans or take action, according to a new report.