In this extremely competitive market, well-informed business owners know that reducing power consumption is a smart and environmentally friendly way to cut operating expenses without reducing product quality or employee output. Switching IT processing to a Dell Blade system can save money while increasing productivity. Improved Design Traditional rack servers bundle components into individual cabinets [...]
Interesting coincidence. As I opened my mail this morning to begin writing this blog post, a headline that jumped out from the inbox was “20 Years of Eco-Surveys Show Americans Know More, Feel Less Empowered”*. This caught my attention since Intel is working hard to make energy use very personal – and to use technology [...]
Once again, I’ve had a long hiatus from blogging. But I’ve got an excuse (this time!). I’ve been heads down on finalizing a new white paper on IT energy efficiency. I also just returned from Corporate EcoForum’s annual meeting where a number of the attendees confirmed the key assertion in the paper – that in most [...]
The IE team recently published the results from a set of tests comparing the energy efficiency of the latest competing browsers. Spoiler-alert – IE9 was the most efficient. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2011/03/28/browser-power-consumption-leading-the-industry-with-internet-explorer-9.aspx Technology Treading Lightly
Microsoft has been working with the US EPA and HP for the last 6 months or so on a study to compare a new ENERGY STAR-qualified server (2009 model) with a similar, older non-energy star rated servers (2006 model) The results show quite convincingly that replacing an older server with a new ENERGY STAR-qualified model [...]