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A few months ago, WWF published a HP-supported white paper called ‘From Green IT to Greening with IT’. The paper is directed mainly at policy makers and aims to explore the role of IT in business and government strategies for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. It particularly looks...
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An article in New Scientist explores how user interface researchers are investigating computer aided persuasion as a technique to assist people to make choices. To me this is a perfect example of understanding how to use the edge computing interface to shift behavior. "Researchers at Eindhoven University...
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Written by Doug Oathout , VP of Green IT Enterprise Storage and Servers IT organizations have been building infrastructure in silos for twenty years; the network administrator builds the interconnects, the storage administrator makes sure the data is accessible and secure, the servers administrator monitors...
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I've done entries on personal fabrication and 3D printing ( printing organs ...). Until this point, these techniques have been applied mostly to software materials. Now it's been extended to printing 3D objects directly in metal . The current process is called Electron Beam Freeform Fabrication...
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I know I'm probably the millionth person to use that line in the context of data center modernization. But who doesn’t love Kermit? A copy of Newsweek showed up this week with a cover story providing an environmental ranking of America's 500 largest corporations. Much to my pleasure, HP...
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Recently HP released a video about application portfolio assessment discussing some of the tools allowing developers to see into the complexity of the code they maintain. It is clear that there are many mechanisms now available that didn't exist a few years ago. I've blogged in the past about...
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I have always been interested in space, science fiction and advanced technology, and a lot of things that were fanciful creations when I was growing up, like ubiquitous wireless personal communication devices, have come to pass and are now mainstream. From the early days of space flight, solar cells...
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I've been working with Phil Simon on a chapter in his book that is coming out titled: The Next Wave of Technologies: Opportunities from Chaos . I was a bit surprised to see the book out there in Amazon already, since it is just going to the publisher's now. Hopefully we'll see something in...
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I was gone for a week taking my daughter back to school. Fortunately, I didn't run into the various technical problems we encountered last year and had her machine running on the campus network within moments of getting it set up. In my long drive to South Carolina from Texas, I tried to catch up...
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In economic hard times reports about layoffs and wage-cutting dominate the news agenda. A new WWF study, however, provides much more positive news and shows real opportunities. The report actually discusses how ’green industries’ such as renewable energy, green transport and energy-efficient...
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One of the things we've talked about before is moving bits not atoms . When you do need to move atoms, make sure that they will be used. Amazon has selected HP to print books on demand . This is critical because a significant percentage of books never find a home. This is one of the areas that HP...
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HP has just launched a campaign called Power To Change which encourages users to turn off computers when they’re not in use. Not a big deal, you think? I was surprised to read that, in the US alone, only 36 per cent of business computers are turned off at the end of the day.* So, even if you already...
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How does the application you are using and what it is doing affect the power consumption of system. The first thing that everyone looks at when talking about power consumption is CPU utilization. Unfortunately CPU utilization is not a good proxy for power consumption and the reason why goes right down...
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I'd like to take consumerization of computing a bit further than I did in the previous post , There are now very low end computers like the SheevaPlug ($99) and the Pogoplug (also $99) coming into the low end of the market. These devices are almost power plugs with a USB port, running Linux. There...
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Being green has been top of the agenda for some time now and it is here to stay. Computerworld magazine recently published its annual list of Top Green IT Organisations . The article honours Top Green IT Users as well as Top Green IT vendors. Citing many examples, Ellen Fanning, author, shows how it...