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Green IT, also known as Green Computing, is the movement towards a more environmentally friendly and cost-effective use of power and production in technology. The crux of Green IT is to double or triple the bottom line investment costs by converting existing structures and systems to this more conservative mode of operation in green computing. Some common Green computing concepts are Virtualization, Recycling, Telecommuting and Power Management through the use of efficient devices. So help save the environment, save yourself some money and "go green" with green IT computing.
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NASA alerts the International Space Station's crew to approaching Russian Cosmos space debris that might force astronauts to sleep in Soyuz module.
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Viridity, which will come out of stealth mode Nov. 9, is developing software designed to give IT administrators, facility managers and C-level executives high visibility into the utilization and energy consumption of their IT equipment and applications. The software will analyze the data and generate action reports that businesses can use to make their data centers more energy-efficient.
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IBM is working to deliver technology that could lead to zero-emission data centers, says an IBM researcher at the USENIX Large Installation System Administration conference.
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Toyota, Alcatel-Lucent and other companies banded together to create the LTE Connected Car, a concept vehicle that went on display in New York on Nov. 3. The vehicle combines a Long Term Evolution (LTE) broadband radio link with in-car Wi-Fi to bring the power of cloud computing to driver and passengers, giving them access to online content such as music, YouTube and games through four individual touch screens.
It's not all about multimedia, however. The concept car also supplies the driver with real-time GPS updates and information on nearby points of interest. The vehicle also offers continuous status updates about the car, using sensors to feed data to the driver about tire pressure and other maintenance issues. Although the concept car's creators were reluctant to name specific automotive companies, apparently they are in talks to extend some of the technology seen here to real-life vehicles at some point in the future.
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IBM announces three new green data center deals in emerging markets, which officials say are adopting energy-efficient IT solutions more quickly than their more developed counterparts. IBM says about half of its green data center revenue is coming in from outside the United States. Driving the demand is the high cost of power and the limited access in many of these regions, as well as their tendency to embrace new technologies.
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A consortium of companies including Alcatel-Lucent and Toyota present the cloud-enabled LTE Connected Car, a concept vehicle. Equipped with four touch screens, the car lets users access not only navigation and car status applications, but also online music, video and social networking. Companies ranging from Ford to Microsoft have been working on ways to add more IT functionality to vehicles.
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Today's data center managers have many techniques to reduce their data center's energy consumption, but a mixture of techniques is often required to achieve energy saving targets. The key to judging success of any energy reduction strategy is the ability to accurately measure results along each step of the way. Here, Knowledge Center contributor Joe Polastre illustrates how power management technology can be used to achieve up to 40 percent energy savings in your data center.
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News Analysis: Cisco and Hewlett-Packard are coming at the next-generation data center with opposite strategies: Cisco wants to partner with the best available suppliers, and HP wants to be the one-stop shop for any enterprise. The general direction of all of this is toward cloud computing, and the question is who will become the go-to suppliers of new systems needed to run Internet-delivered services as older data centers get replaced during the next several years.
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For years, IT has been under intense pressure to implement an expanding number of new business services that are critical to the enterprise. To do so, IT staffs have typically added hundreds or even thousands of servers over the years, which has resulted in skyrocketing IT power consumption and energy costs. Here, Knowledge Center contributor Chris Rixon explains how companies can cut IT energy consumption and achieve other green IT objectives by using an approach based on business service management.
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NASA's Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope is giving scientists an increasingly detailed look at the extreme universe, including rare experimental evidence about the very structure of space and time. Despite the many new theories of space-time, Albert Einstein's original theory is still standing.
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It's literally taken more than a century for the de facto control of motor vehicle transportation to begin to move away from oil and gasoline companies to alternative fuel suppliers, but that shift is finally taking place. Ford is one of the leaders in this effort.
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When delegates arrive in Copenhagen for the United Nations Climate Change Conference Dec. 7, Cisco Systems will be extending the conference's global reach with the company's Global Climate Change Meeting Platform.
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Phase change memory is a relatively new type of nonvolatile memory chip that combines many of the benefits of current memory types, such as NAND flash, NOR flash and hard disk drives. Research engineers say they have found a way to stack up 64MB single-layer PCM arrays within a single die into what Intel and Numonyx describe as a true cross-point array containing both memory and a switch.
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With going green and saving money all the rage these days we wanted to show you just how high-tech and green a data center can actually be. Not to mention that it literally looks like it came straight out of a James Bond film. This is video of a former nuclear bunker, codenamed Pionen White Mountains, located in solid bedrock in central Stockholm 30 meters below ground, that hosts a state-of-the-art data center facility spread over 1,110 sqm. With greenhouses, waterfalls, German submarine engines, simulated daylight and 40 cm thick entrance doors.
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Hamstrung by weather delays, NASA finally lights the match blasting the Ares I-X on its first test flight. The Ares I-X is the first new rocket to be launched by the space agency in the nearly 30 years since the space shuttle Columbia made its maiden voyage in 1981.
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