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making your IT ecosystem green
published on
2012/04/09
by
Anthony Plewes
In today’s world, energy efficiency and environmentally friendly have become buzzwords in the IT industry, as lobby groups and government ministers pursue initiatives to make us more green. Critics say that it is more important than ever to make sure your network and data center is running efficiently as part of a green networking strategy to cut hardware and software costs, save on power and contribute to corporate environmental policies. However, green IT must make financial sense for organizations, especially as legacy environments are already being made as efficient as possible through virtualization technologies, such as increasing server processing capacity......
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Internet of Things to be powered by Things
published on
2011/10/03
by
Stewart Baines
Kinetic energy harvesting relies heavily on piezoelectric power, in which particular ceramic compounds create tiny amounts of energy when compressed. When you press a button that directly creates a spark to ignite your gas oven, or when you press a firelight and hear that familiar snapping sound before the flame appears, you are using piezoelectrics. ...
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Growing your own: micro-generation for data centers
published on
2011/01/19
by
Stewart Baines
Burning natural gas powers micro-turbines, which provide the energy to power the data centre's computing equipment, while also priming the uninterruptible power supplies, in case of unexpected energy disruption. There is an added efficiency, however: cogeneration....
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Sustainable IT needs CIO to make friends with line-of-business
published on
2010/12/07
by
Stewart Baines
In many organizations, the facilities department pays the electricity bill. As many companies attempt to reduce their carbon footprints and save on energy, how close is the communication between their IT departments and their facilities departments? ...
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Energy Star
published on
2010/09/08
by
Edwige Cottigny
As part of its broader ENERGY STAR initiative unveiled in 1992, the U.S. EPA recently launched an ENERGY STAR Rating for Data Centers. A number of other governments are considering adopting the label for data centres....
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