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The tier one technology companies ala Dell, Hewlett-Packard and IBM all view for green IT headlines on a weekly basis, but there is plenty of innovation going on among smaller players. Super Micro, for example, just showed off new server technology during the CeBit computer show in Hannover, Germany. The common theme in the products it [...]

I’ve written about energy management company EnerNOC in the demand response sense, based on the work that it is doing to help companies with generating capacity reduce their grid dependency in peak demand situations. (As a reminder, here’s my post about how EnerNOC is working with a New York-based data center operator to help it [...]

The latest version of Faronics‘ PowerSave application (version 4.1) includes two new features that are intended to address potential security concerns associated with waking up a computer once it  has entered standby or hibernate mode to save power. First, the software now requires the user to enter their system password, if it is being used in [...]

You really can’t make this stuff up. Apparently, there is a climate scientist at Stanford University’s Carnegie Institute who is working on a project that aims to pump cool water in the ocean tropics to try to discourage the development of hurricanes. The research, which is discussed in this video over at our SmartPlanet sister [...]

Sentilla, which sells enterprise software for tracking power utilization across data centers, has updated its Sentilla Energy Manager software to version 3.0. The big new feature in the release is the ability for companies to keep tabs not just on devices that have power meters but also on equipment that isn’t traditionally metered. The new software [...]

Three new companies have allied themselves with the ecoSoftware business unit at CA. That means they offer technologies or services that work with CA ecoSoftware, which is an application for managing information about corporate sustainability, carbon footprint, operational energy and other environmental factors. CA’s three new partners are: Global Green Consulting Group, which is a sustainability performance [...]

OK, my bad. I promised in a post about electronic waste a couple of weeks ago to write about a newish company that is getting more active with Fortune 500 type companies, and then promptly spaced out during a whirlwind of other things last week. So, here’s that promised post, which is about a player [...]

You’ll notice increasing coverage of some of the environmental management software packages here in GreenTech Pastures, because it is one the topics I’m trying to research more thoroughly. There are a couple of new products expected out next week. Meanwhile, just posted this mini-case study over at my Smart Planet blog, discussing how refining company [...]

What does it take to earn the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) nod for a data center? I’m told it’s not an easy task, but operator Equinix has just gotten the nod for its SV2 International Business Exchange facility in Silicon Valley, California. LEED is actually a building design verification that looks at whether [...]

Quick update on Dell’s OptiPlex desktop product line: The company has introduced a new edition, called OptiPlex 980, that boasts a power supply that is 90 percent energy efficient. The chassis also uses more post-consumer recycled materials than previous generations of the technology, and OptiPlex 980 meets both Energy Star 5.0 and the EPEAT gold [...]