When building our hyper energy-efficient data center, CIX we used many strategies to lower our carbon footprint. One such strategy was to source energy efficient infrastructure, such as the GE Super ECO UPS’.
However, obviously one place we chose poorly was in our switches. We went for Cisco switches. Why was that a poor choice?
I […]
No, Climate Savers isn’t a new brand of computer manufacturer. Nor is it a hip new computer store.
No, Climate Savers is a coming together of computer manufacturers to reduce the power consumption of computers by 50% by 2010.
There are a lot of big brand manufacturers there (although conspicuously absent are Sony and Apple).
Climate Savers has […]
Microsoft is moving into a new area, energy efficiency software!
Rob Bernard, Microsoft’s new Energy Czar (his official title is Chief Environmental Strategist), in a recent interview with Cnet’s Michael Kanellos, Rob said
“I am highly familiar with the massive opportunity for software and intelligence to optimize energy control systems,” he said. “I think that buildings account […]
An article in ComputerWorld claims that companies will be spending up to three times what they spent on Y2k, on carbon accounting and sustainability reporting.
Quoting results from analyst and research firm, S2 Intelligence, the article posits that businesses will collectively spend at least US$595 billion on systems to support green accounting.
S2’s managing director, Dr Bruce […]
Technology Review published an interesting article the other day on some of the innovations Microsoft is rolling out to save energy in its data centres.
Microsoft Research’s Networked Embedded Computing group have developed small sensors sensitive to heat and humidity. The sensors are web-enabled and can be networked and made compatible with Web services.
In Microsoft’s case, […]
I gave a talk the other day for the it@cork Green IT event where I went through some of the innovations we rolled out in the design of the Cork Internet eXchange (CIX) data centre to make it a hyper energy-efficient data center.
This is the slide deck I used - I will go through […]
Amory Lovins is the is Chairman and Chief Scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute and he is also the author and co-author of many books on renewable energy and energy efficiency. His most recent publication is called Winning the Oil Endgame is is available as a free download.
There are some fascinating quotes attributed to […]
While many people tend to see ‘going green’ as a fad, and one which will cost time and money, in fact, the opposite generally holds true. Being green is all about reducing waste and being more efficient. Typically this leads to reduced expenditure and cost savings.
In this video, Brently Davis, Intel IT Data Center Efficiency […]
