Innovation

EMC And NetApp Poised To Fight Over Green Storage Company?

EMC and NetApp are eyeing up the all-Flash storage firm XtremIO

12 years ago

UK And Scandinavia Make Gains In Data Centre Rankings

UK becomes the second best location for data centres, while green concerns puish Nordic states up the rankings

12 years ago

HomeKey £70 PC-On-A-Stick Launched For Elders

Valerie Singleton's SimplicITy outfit has a granny-friendly Linux-based USB machine she made earlier

12 years ago

Data Centre Module Switches To DC To Cut Power

The data centre module from ABB and IO uses DC power throughout and claims to significantly reduce power and equipment…

12 years ago

Apple Responds To Greenpeace Criticism

Apple has claimed an upcoming Oregon data centre will run on '100 percent renewable energy'

12 years ago

Microsoft Announces Biogas-Powered Green “Data Plants”

Data centres built on rotting landfill sites could be self-sufficient in power, says Microsoft

12 years ago

Volta To Build Reliable Data Centre In The Heart Of London

Old Reuters building will become a state-of-the-art co-location facility

12 years ago

Do O2’s Telecommute Savings Add Up?

O2 saved 12 tonnes of CO2 emissions by closing its office for a day. Peter Judge asks, is that a…

12 years ago

Apple Defends iCloud Against Greenpeace Attack

Environmental organisation blames Apple for using “dirty” energy

12 years ago

Staffordshire Uni Reduces PC Power Use By 60 Percent

University on course to save £27,000 through power management software

12 years ago

Microsoft Wants Data Centres To Power Themselves

“Data Plants” of the future could combine data centres and sustainable energy production

12 years ago

BRICS To Cable The Southern Hemisphere

A 34,000 km submarine cable network linking five developing countries? Easy, says Andrew Mthembu of i3Africa

12 years ago

Interxion Puts Data Centre Staff In Pods For Olympics

Olympic transport trouble won't keep data centre staff from their jobs in London

12 years ago

British Gas Starts Major Smart Meter Roll-Out

Replacing smart meters with… smart meters?

12 years ago

Intel Announces Atom-Based Centerton for Low-Energy Microservers

Atom-based system-on-chip uses only six watts, making it Intel's greenest processor yet

12 years ago

DARPA Contest Seeks Robots Designed For Disaster Zones

US agency offers $2 million reward in robotics advancement program

12 years ago

Green Data Centres Could Run On Pig Manure

Google and Apple both look like using the same source to reduce their carbon emissions, says Peter Judge

12 years ago

IBM PureSystems Converge RISC and x86, Network And Storage

IBM's converged data centre entry attempts to package up expertise as well as hardware

12 years ago

Carbon Nanotubes Could Revolutionise Processors With ‘Remote Heating’ Property

Researchers discover that CNTs remain cool when a current is sent through, transferring heat to a substrate

12 years ago

eBay Goes Green With Solar Panels For Utah Data Centre

Despite concerns about the suitability of solar panels for data centres, eBay is to harness the power of the sun…

12 years ago

DECC Lays Out ‘Tough Guidelines’ On Smart Meters

DECC's smart meter programme expected to deliver £7.2 billion net benefit over 20 years

12 years ago

Hack Attacks Warning On Medical Implants

Insulin pumps and pacemakers can be turned off by radio control warn researchers

12 years ago

Google’s Augmented Reality Glasses Make Public Appearance

Google co-founder Sergey Brin was spotted in San Francisco wearing Google's prototype augmented reality glasses, part of the Project Glass…

12 years ago

US Scientists Plan On-Demand Robots

A team from MIT wants anyone to be able to go to a shop, get a design and print their…

12 years ago

Green Grid Launches Online Tool To Measure Data Centre Efficiency

Self-assessment tool allows data centres to be measured against the Green Grid's DCMM

12 years ago

O2 Reduces Carbon Emissions In Flexible Working Pilot

Mobile operator reveals the results of its February scheme

12 years ago

Broadband Promises Green Future Says UN Report

Broadband allows for flexible working practices, but it's also a boon for the environment, says a UN report

12 years ago

AWS Cloud Hosts Massive Human Genetics Catalogue

AWS gives researchers instant access to the complete 200TB database from the 1000 Genomes Project

12 years ago

Conservatives Fail To Control The Carbs

The failure to introduce carbon accounting is one more broken environmental promise by the Conservative government, says Peter Judge

12 years ago