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Aug 27th, 2010
Today Is Power IT Down Day
To raise awareness of the impact of IT energy consumption, Friday August 27 is “Power IT Down Day“. The idea is this — turn off your laptops, desktops, monitors, printers, and anything you’re not using for the weekend. To do my own part, I have installed a TED monitoring device at my home in San [...]
Aug 24th, 2010
Power Monitoring Gizmo Helps Reduce Energy Consumption
Data centre managers rejoice. 2bm has launched the iMeter, an advanced environmental and power monitoring solution designed to help businesses monitor and reduce power consumption in the data centre. Uniquely, iMeter can be implemented without a complete re-fit and whilst allowing normal uninterrupted operation. The reduction of excessive power consumption is becoming a major government initiative – [...]
Jun 14th, 2010
Making IT Green
When it comes to energy consumption across the network, organisations need to look further than just the data centre. Organisations must be vigilant with energy usage if green targets are to be met and carbon reduction must start now to penetrate every aspect of a company. There is little sense in having an energy efficient [...]
May 28th, 2010
Top Tips For Businesses Wanting To Transform Technology
A business needs to look at the whole company before considering change. For example, what applications are needed, what’s used regularly, and what’s used sporadically but is very important? What kind of data is consumed in the business and how is it manipulated? IT directors need control over the existing system in order to predict [...]
May 19th, 2010
Will Cloud Computing Lead To Global Smog?
Today has seen the release of the Greenpeace report: “Make IT Green – Cloud Computing and its contribution to Climate Change” catch the headlines. The report basically claims that the rise of cloud computing is increasingly reliant on the use of dirty fossil fuels and that urgent action needs to be taken [...]
Apr 1st, 2010
Smart Metering Threatens Utilities With Real-Time Data Explosion
Smart meters are the next generation of electricity and gas meters for consumers. Intelligent home-based devices, they constantly communicate with the utility company to provide accurate, real-time meter readings. This means consumers can better track their gas and electricity usage and take steps to potentially reduce energy consumption and bills. In turn, utility companies will benefit [...]
Jan 15th, 2010
What Is Likely To Be High On The IT Manager’s Agenda For 2010?
How does the land lie, in light of the past 12 turbulent months, where IT departments have been forced to pull their metaphorical belts in? And, more importantly, what should IT managers be thinking about, planning and budgeting for in the year ahead? The start of a new decade 2009 has been a turbulent year for many [...]
Sep 16th, 2009
Building The Data Centre Of The Future
Experts are predicting that the amount of data space needed to support the fast growing online economy will double every eleven hours by 2012. Lord Carter’s Digital Britain report proposes that there should be universal 2Mbps broadband for the country’s households, which ultimately will increase demand for data centre capacity as a result of increased [...]
Sep 9th, 2009
Finding A Solution For Data Centre Efficiencies
Green computing is big business. It’s the latest term in the IT sector, and a nagging doubt in the back of every CIO’s mind. But what does it mean, and what is the scale of the problem, asks Object Matrix founder Jon Morgan. According to a recent report from analyst house IDC, more than 16.3TWh of [...]
Sep 9th, 2009
Act Now To Save For The Future
When it comes to energy consumption across the network, organisations need to look further than just the data centre. John Lunt, managing director and co-founder of Certero, examines how organisations can do this and how the Government’s target of an 80% reduction in carbon emissions by 2050 is affecting green targets in business. Organisations must be [...]
