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Why doesn’t this surprise me? Forrester Research is reporting that barely one-quarter of all businesses have any kind of budget for what would be considered green IT activities, even though 45 percent are embracing a strategy related to green IT and another third are considering it.
As I reported about two weeks ago, Forrester’s regular surveys [...]

Storage technology provider Nimbus Data Systems has come out with its latest enterprise flash storage system, which can provide up to 10 terabytes per shelf or up to 250 terabytes in a single file system. Nimbus claims that its platform carries 90 percent lower energy, cooling and rackspace costs than traditional 15,000-rpm disk arrays that [...]

There’s a new study out today from Climate Savers Computing Initiative, the organization made up of several heavyweight high-tech companies focused on thwarting climate change and improving the energy efficiency of computing and communications technology. Those companies include the likes of CSC, Cisco, Dell, Google, HP, Intel, Juniper Networks, MIcrosoft and the non-profit group, the [...]

Microsoft has teamed up with Blue Line Innovations to create a wireless energy monitor that will present  relevant information from its Hohm energy management service. The gadget looks like one of those weather and temperature information displays. It works with a WiFi feed.
The partnership explained.

I don’t usually worship my air-conditioner, but ours ran virtually non-stop last week when the air here in New Jersey decided to turn sauna-like. In that context, a green tech breakthrough that has just been achieved by General Motors caught my eye.
Apparently, the automaker is the first to begin using what it calls a climate-friendly [...]

Looks like data center energy intelligence company SynapSense is feeling some love from GE. The company is getting $5 million from GE Energy Financial Services, along with Emerald Technology Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Robert Bosch Venture Capital, American River Ventures, Nth Power and DFJ Frontier.
The money is earmarked for research and development AND market expansion activities [...]

(Updated on July 28, 2010, to correct size of smaller projects, as well as total capacity served by Solaire projects.)
Say you’re a company that really requires most of your employees to work onsite. You can’t really support the telecommuting thing right now. How can you provide a little extra incentive to make your team feel [...]

When I was growing up on the east coast, there was this silly rule about wearing white in the summer. Except it really wasn’t so silly, because lighter colors are shown to help reflect hit and keep you cooler when it’s ridiculously hot outside. Think about how blazing hot the asphalt in parking lots can [...]

(Updated July 25, 2010, to add pricing) For smaller companies that are interested in a more energy-efficiency entry level server, Fujitsu has just come out with the Primergy TX100 S2, based on the Intel Xeon processor 3400 series.
The big value proposition for the new hardware is that it draws zero watts during its off state; [...]