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CompTIA nixes Green IT Exam 13 Aug 2013 | 12:20 pm
CompTIA, the vendor owned certification organisation, has announced it will drop its Green IT Certification course, launched with such fanfare three years ago. The reason given is that Green IT is no...
A Brill life, an untimely death 5 Aug 2013 | 03:09 am
Ken Brill, founder of the Uptime Institute, has died of cancer at the age of 68. The Uptime Institute developed the Tier system of data centre classification (Brill’s own work) and is a leading voice ...
UK Government releases second Green IT report 31 Jul 2013 | 03:52 am
The UK Government has released ‘Greening Government: ICT Annual Report’. It is its second annual report into the effectiveness of Government Green IT. Download it here. Highlights: The average gre....
It’s official – cloud computing does save energy 29 Jul 2013 | 08:35 am
Does cloud computing really reduce energy demands and greenhouse gas emissions? This has been a subject of debate for some time. The large data centres used for cloud computing are usually more energy...
Green IT Review has a new Editor and Publisher 28 Jul 2013 | 10:59 am
Welcome everybody. My name is Graeme Philipson, and I am the new editor and publisher of The Green IT Review. Pete Foster started the publication five years ago and has done a fabulous job, but now he...
The Green IT Review – last orders 21 May 2013 | 03:44 pm
For more than five years The Green IT Review has been keeping readers up to date with green ICT and cleantech market trends while demonstrating the opportunities for CSR operations to make their organ...
The carbon emissions to manufacture an iPad can be the equivalent of 128 years of use 20 May 2013 | 10:02 pm
The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) has published a study on the power consumption of the latest iPad models. Using this data, plus its own estimates of the energy used to manufacture electro...
Data centre energy efficiency – are smaller companies giving up? 20 May 2013 | 02:59 pm
Last week the Uptime Institute presented the results of its 2013 Data Center Industry Survey at the Institute’s annual Symposium in California. Among the findings were the fact that only 56% of data c...
Electricity Demand Response programmes are growing, but still mostly in the US 17 May 2013 | 01:33 pm
According to a report from Navigant Research, there are at least 1,342 Demand Response (DR) programmes underway worldwide. These are programmes aimed at achieving stability on the electricity grid by ...
Kyocera uses ‘Green Curtains’ to make buildings more energy efficient 15 May 2013 | 09:23 pm
As part of its long term sustainability activities, every spring Japanese electronics company Kyocera plants what it calls ‘Green Curtains’ at its sites in Japan and some other parts of the world. The...
