Archive for February, 2009

Case study: Service Birmingham / Birmingham City Council - Pioneering IT recycling scheme (PublicTechnology.net)

This is a case study from a finalist in the e-Government National Awards 2008 . Awards category 11) e-Government excellence: For sustainable, ‘green IT’ or ‘carbon-efficient services’.

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Diomede Offers Green File Storage In The Cloud For A Fraction Of The Cost (TechCrunch)

At today’s TechCrunch Cloud Computing Roundtable event, a new storage company called Diomede launched in private beta with the goal of offering low cost cloud-based storage that is also very energy efficient. The basic premise behind the service is that not all data in the cloud needs to be immediately available, but that most people still pay for the immediate access anyway. While most …

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ServInt Attains Green Web Hosting Goals for 2008 (TopHosts.com)

ServInt’s Virtual Private Server Web Hosting Solutions Support the Company’s Green Initiative by Reducing Waste

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Microsoft tests Intel netbook processor for ‘green’ servers (Macworld UK)

Microsoft researchers are experimenting with low-powered servers using Intel’s inexpensive, efficient Atom processors designed for netbooks.

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HOT TOPICS (Government Computer News)

Government Computer News will present Anil Karmel , a solutions architect in the network and infrastructure engineering division at Los Alamos National Laboratory, in an eSeminar at 2 p.m. Tuesday, March 24 , where he will address implementing virtualization to address agencies’ green computing, disaster recovery and security initiatives.

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