Sustainability, reduced running costs and increased long term building value are among the reasons that Digital Realty Trust, the world’s largest wholesale datacentre provider, is adopting the newly announced BREEAM Bespoke datacentre standards for the future construction of its datacentres.
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Tom Young, Computing , Tuesday 31 March 2009 at 12:15:00 Promise to eliminate vinyl plastic and brominated flame retardants by end of 2009 will not be honoured by Dell and HP PC makers HP, Lenovo and Dell have abandoned plans to eliminate vinyl plastic (PVC) and brominated flame retardants (BFRs) from their products by the end of 2009 because of the recession, according to Greenpeace, which …
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Rackable Systems, Inc. , a leading provider of Eco-Logical™ servers and storage for medium- to large-scale data center deployments, has contracted with KODAK Service and Support to utilize its field service organization to augment Rackable’s existing field service team and for the repair of Rackable Systems products.
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The Verfino series, a demonstration of AOC advancing in display technologies with green credentials. Sydney Australia - March 31 2009 - AOC, the brand owned by the world’s largest display manufacturer, unveils the Verfino series, the world’s slimmest WLED monitor.
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Reding calls for IT to act on emissions Viviane Reding, European Commissioner for Information Society and Media, is calling on the IT industry to cut energy use by 20 per cent by 2020.… Whitepaper - Business intelligence for the mid-market
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