Mar
17
2010
Somehow I missed out on the invite to the Jefferies Clean Technology Conference in New York this week, but some of my ZDNet colleagues were there, including Larry Dignan, who contributed this piece on solar technology to SmartPlanet. One of the panels dealt with the rather slim adoption of residential solar tech in the United [...]
Mar
17
2010
You might have heard there’s a big Cisco Borderless Networks shindig today, where the company is touting the idea that communications should be seamlessly between wired and wireless network. Don’t overlook the updates that Cisco is making to EnergyWise, which is the network giant’s vision for managing energy consumption.
The rather basic changes include the simple [...]
Mar
17
2010
Fujitsu’s latest Primergy server product, called the Primergy CX1000, was designed to appeal to the economics of cloud service providers — especially those that are focused on ultra energy efficiency.
By divesting the servers of individual fans and cramming them into its new Cool-Central cabinet architecture, Fujitsu believes it can deliver a 20 percent reduction in [...]
Mar
16
2010
Just posted an item over at SmartPlanet about a new company called Digital Lumens that is using wireless networking and energy management software, in conjunction with intelligent LEDs, to help slash lighting costs in warehouse and industrial facilities. Sort of a smart grid for lights, which is the concept that this greentech startup is going [...]
Mar
16
2010
Chances are, you’re more likely to think about your energy use when you’re staying in dismay at your electricity bill. That’s probably one of the motivators for the deal that energy management software and demand response company EnerNOC has just signed with California’s Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E).
The deal calls for PG&E to provide its [...]
Mar
15
2010
We have custom computers of all sorts, why not custom devices for the smart grid? Ye of the screwdriver and systems integration/development set now have a new software development kit to play with called the SuRF Developer’s Kit (aka SuRF) from People Power Company.
The company, fronted by long-time software development industry executive Gene Wang, plans [...]
Mar
12
2010
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 [...]
Mar
11
2010
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 [...]
Mar
11
2010
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 [...]
Mar
09
2010
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 [...]
