If you have a look over at the left-hand side bar, you’ll see there’s now a survey section. These surveys are being conducted by the Business Performance Management (BPM) Forum who is undertaking two milestone thought leadership research initiatives called Uptime @ Crunch Time and Lean and Green Leadership.The two surveys are targeted at IT datacenter professionals and relate to green computing and uptime issues.
The Lean and Green survey seeks to increase awareness of the ways IT organizations can reduce energy drain and increase profitability by consolidating storage systems, embracing efficient computing practices, and introducing power-saving technique, while Uptime @ Crunch Time identifies issues, challenges, and successes in maintaining continuous data uptime in critical business scenarios.
The surveys aren’t very long, so please take a couple of minutes of your time to fill them out if you’ve got knowledge and experience in this area.
D-Link, a designer, developer and manufacturer of networking and broadband solutions, has just announced a line of environmentally friendly Gigabit switches for small and home offices. Everyday it seems another electronics company heralds the arrival of some green initiative and, as far as I’m concerned, that’s great. As you’ve probably noticed, these announcements are often greeted with a healthy round of skepticism, but as I’ve mentioned in previous posts, such a cynical take on initiatives like this is shortsighted.
So why has D-link come out with this green line? In their own words, it’s because “[p]ublic awareness and legislative action worldwide have created demands for improvements in energy efficiency for networking equipment.” Sounds pretty upfront to me.
I was doing some research into solar chargers at work today and came across this do-it-yourself video. Now, I admit to not being the most tech savvy guy out there, but constructing a solar-powered charger that I can use to charge up my mobile phone or MP3 player, is something I would have considered out of my league before seeing this video.
Have a look. I’m going to try it out myself and will let you know if I have any success. I’d love to hear if anyone else has tried this, and how they got on.
Well, that’s what Hitachi’s claiming. Their new Deskstar P7K500 desktop hard drive reduces the active and idle power consumption by up to 40 percent over the previous generation, and satisfied certification standards for Energy Star 4.0. Coming in both a one-disk and two-disk model, the new hard drive is designed for commercial and consumer PCs in capacities ranging from 250GB to 500GB.
A while back I posted an article which listed ten things to consider when buying, using and disposing of a computer. Basically, the article suggested that it’s very easy to be green if you follow a few simple guidelines. For those of you who couldn’t be bothered reading through what was, I admit, a fairly lengthy post, here’s a 3 minute video produced by AT&T’s tech channel covering most of what I talked about.
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