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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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The world's highest-volume producer of HHDs has begun shipping a new 600GB, 2.5-inch enterprise drive to its OEMs that runs at 10,000 RPM. This doubles the capacity of conventional 3.5-inch drives.
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Responding to public demand for climate change information, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration plans to form an NOAA Climate Service line office and launches a new Website to serve as a single point of entry for NOAA’s extensive climate information, data, products and services.
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IBM launches a set of Power7 systems that it says deliver up to four times the energy efficiency and twice the performance of the previous generation of Power systems and some of the current crop of competing systems.
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NASA officials gave a thumbs up Feb. 5 for the Feb. 7 launch of the space shuttle Endeavour, which is currently set for a 4:39 a.m. liftoff from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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Green Grid research reports that most companies are not offering incentives to their employees to help increase energy efficiency, even though doing so could mean substantial bottom-line and environmental results.
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Environmentalist identifies wind, solar and geothermal exchange as three renewable resources with the potential to monetize the power system in the United States in a different manner, wresting control away from "big carbon" industrial companies with profits -- and not the environment -- as their top priority.
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IBM is opening a data center in North Carolina that is capable of supporting cloud computing initiatives for clients, offers a host of energy-efficiency features and includes hundreds of sensors that can enable IBM to dynamically adapt power and cooling needs to the environment. IBM officials say the data center infrastructure not only can help outsourcing clients save money and increase efficiency, but also serves as a showcase for IBM's Smarter Planet technologies.
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At the Green Grid's Technical Forum, the organization introduces a Power Efficiency Estimator that enables data center operators to compare different possible situations involving power topologies and technologies inside their facilities. The new Power Usage Effectiveness Calculator allows managers to easily input their facilities' specific data at regular intervals to determine their PUE.
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Samsung says its 30-nanometer-class, 2GB DRAM reduces power consumption by about 30 percent over 50-nanometer-class DRAM. The data storage company says a 4GB, 30-nm module of its green DDR3 used in a notebook will consume only 3 watts per hour, or 3 percent of the total power usage of a notebook.
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New procurement rules for Chinese government agencies shopping for computers, software, telecommunications and green technology require that products contain intellectual property developed, owned and registered in China.
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For about $600,000, Hewlett-Packard offers the Performance-Optimized Datacenter, a fully enclosed, portable, ready-to-plug-in data center frame that can hold 10 racks of servers, storage and switching hardware. It features all hookups for air, water and electrical power throughput as required by the hardware innards.
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The Sony Ericsson Aspen is the latest in the GreenHeart line, which promotes recycled materials, energy-efficient chargers and waterborne paints. It pairs the Microsoft’s Windows Mobile 6.5.3 OS with enterprise e-mail support, Wi-Fi and a qwerty keypad.
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IBM has opened its new Smarter Planet experiential exhibit at INNOVENTIONS at Epcot in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. The exhibit is powered by a Smarter Data Center, providing a real-life demonstration of optimized computing that reduces energy costs by up to 25 percent. The exhibit's version of IBM's Scalable Modular Data Center has been implemented by hundreds of IBM clients around the world. Visitors at IBM's new Smarter Planet exhibit at INNOVENTIONS at Epcot play "Runtime," a dynamic and customized video game experience developed by Walt Disney Imagineering. The unique game transforms guests into their own personalized avatars, who run, jump and dance through a timeline of IBM's achievements in the history of computing. Guests can also email themselves the game, extending the "Runtime" experience.
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Over the next seven months, Intel will install solar panels at eight locations in four Western states that will generate about 2.5 megawatts of power. The project calls for installing the solar panels on the roofs of Intel buildings at all the sites except one. The installations are part of a larger power conservation initiative that Intel kicked off in 2001. Since that time, Intel has invested more than $30 million and has saved more than 650 million kilowatt hours using a variety of different renewable energy sources, including wind, solar, water and biomass. Intel officials say they not only want to reduce their own company's carbon footprint, but also are investing in companies that are developing clean technology products. Intel has invested more than $125 million in more than a dozen of these clean tech companies, including $10 million in five companies in 2009. The following slides illustrate what the new solar installations will look like when completed.
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President Obama's 2011 budget dramatically changes the course of U.S. manned spaceflight plans, dropping efforts to return to the moon by 2020 and instead focusing on extending the life of the International Space Station. The reversal in policy comes after a blue-ribbon panel said the proposed return to the moon was chronically underfunded, with unrealistic goals.
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From HVAC to rack density to hot/cool aisles, eWEEK Labs recommends the computing models and energy-saving practices to focus on for the biggest rewards.
Several low-impact moves can yield high-impact savings in energy.
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