Pedro Hernandez posted an article on ecoINSITE - Nov 21, 2009, 1:20 pm
GPS and software has helped shipping companies like UPS cut down on fuel costs. Now Kraft Foods has revealed that since 2005, the company has saved 50 million miles by streamlining its logistics opera...
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Pedro Hernandez posted an article on ecoINSITE - Nov 16, 2009, 3:54 pm
Iceland: New Hot Spot for Data Centers? - CIO.com The CEO of Verne Global, a wholesale data-center hosting company, has searched the world for places that offer cheap power, easy cooling and reliable...
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Pedro Hernandez posted an article on ecoINSITE - Nov 11, 2009, 8:05 pm
Smart Grid Needs Power From Enterprise BPM - Internet Evolution The answer could be as simple as using enterprise-class business process management (BPM) software widely deployed in the telecom and I...
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Pedro Hernandez posted an article on ecoINSITE - Nov 10, 2009, 5:43 pm
To be honest, I was less than wowed when I heard about Amazon's Kindle for PC software (Mac version available soon-ish). After reading BetaNews' take on it, it occurred to me that Amazon may h...
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Pedro Hernandez posted an article on ecoINSITE - Nov 10, 2009, 5:18 pm
VMware admins possess the IT skills needed in a down economy - InfoWorld Last September, the analyst and consulting firm Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) released a research report on virtualiz...
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Pedro Hernandez posted an article on ecoINSITE - Nov 7, 2009, 10:48 am
A new accessory from Garmin, the ecoRoute ESP cable, connects to your car's on-board diagnostic system (OBD-II) and links to Bluetooth-enabled Nuvi 1xxx series GPS units to provide a plethora of d...
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Pedro Hernandez posted an article on ecoINSITE - Nov 1, 2009, 10:36 am
Mind you, he has servers to sell, so salt, grains and all that good stuff... Erik Dithmer, general manager of Small Medium Business Americas for Dell is telling SMB's to hold their horses on virt...
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Pedro Hernandez posted an article on ecoINSITE - Oct 29, 2009, 3:53 pm
Green IT: Thrifty CIOs should make it a priority - Silicon.com A major contributor to this issue is the lack of understanding among many IT professionals about the best way to optimise energy-saving ...
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Pedro Hernandez posted an article on ecoINSITE - Oct 26, 2009, 1:57 pm
You might be thinking, "What wait, it's here now?" Well yes, and no. Over the years that have been gadgets like electric shavers, toothbrushes and even the Palm Pre (optional) that can be charged...
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Pedro Hernandez posted an article on ecoINSITE - Oct 24, 2009, 11:10 am
Oh no! Just when solid competition for the Kindle shows up in the form of Barnes & Noble's well-received Nook, it seems that e-book makers want the tiny market to implode. Exhibit 1: IREX's "...
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Pedro Hernandez posted an article on ecoINSITE - Oct 22, 2009, 11:50 am
Don't worry, there were energy savings to be had, $500,000 rather than the estimated $3 million.  It sounds like a failure, but the economy put a damper on the expected surge in energy prices...
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Pedro Hernandez posted an article on ecoINSITE - Oct 13, 2009, 7:15 pm
Sizing computer room air conditioners for data center energy efficiency - SearchDataCenter.com Reheat was the norm for years, and it's the biggest energy waster of all. The CRAC over-cools the ai...
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Pedro Hernandez posted an article on ecoINSITE - Oct 13, 2009, 6:29 pm
Good news Garden State residents, our beloved New Jersey is second only to California in installed solar, but number one in solar installed per square mile. One of the reasons is that incentives are a...
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Pedro Hernandez posted an article on ecoINSITE - Oct 6, 2009, 5:21 pm
See that map above? It's the SourceMap for a compact fluorescent bulb (you might need to zoom out a little). MIT has cooked up a handy site that uses Google Maps to plot where a product's comp...
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Pedro Hernandez posted an article on ecoINSITE - Oct 4, 2009, 3:43 pm
Whoo-hoo! The lower-case "eco," capitalized everything else trend is finally taking off! This ecoATM takes your old cell and gives you store credit for your troubles. Simple! The first ecoATM went to...
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Pedro Hernandez posted an article on ecoINSITE - Oct 4, 2009, 1:16 pm
In covering green IT, or technology in general, I don't have to look far for people that exhibit ingenuity and passion. (And make a buck, who are we kidding.) William Kamkwamba of Malawi stands a...
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Pedro Hernandez posted an article on ecoINSITE - Oct 1, 2009, 12:50 pm
Every Little Bit Helps When It Comes to Saving the Forest - Tonic The 48HourPrint.com company is switching to recycled paper that's made right in the U.S., taking a nice step in the direction of ...
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Pedro Hernandez posted an article on ecoINSITE - Sep 26, 2009, 10:45 am
I am a big supporter of using broadband access as a green IT strategy (and a way to combat pig flu). But it goes without saying that before you can enjoy the benefits you need true, fast-speed broadba...
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Pedro Hernandez posted an article on ecoINSITE - Sep 25, 2009, 6:52 pm
Apple and the Environment Probably more than you ever wanted to know about Apple and its impact on the environment. Gartner: Turn server heat up to 75 - Computerworld In addition to Gartner's r...
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Pedro Hernandez posted an article on ecoINSITE - Sep 22, 2009, 10:30 pm
Fortune Expanding South Bay Data Center - GlobeSt.com Located at 2001 Fortune Drive, Fortune's Phase 1 data center, its only data center, uses 30% less energy than the industry average. Sheputis ...
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Pedro Hernandez posted an article on ecoINSITE - Sep 16, 2009, 8:01 pm
Six Tips For Green (and Greenwash-Free) Data Center Storage - Reuters/GreenBiz Four billion dollars is spent every year on data center energy consumption and this number will only continue to climb. ...
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Pedro Hernandez posted an article on ecoINSITE - Sep 15, 2009, 10:28 pm
  So it is. Unearth the craziness hidden in your name here.
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Pedro Hernandez posted an article on ecoINSITE - Sep 15, 2009, 9:59 pm
The EPA estimates that out of the 2.25 million tons of electronic waste generated by the U.S. each year, only 18 percent (405,000 tons) of it is collected for recycling. I discovered the statisti...
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Pedro Hernandez posted an article on ecoINSITE - Sep 15, 2009, 9:33 pm
Whitehall saves £7 million with greener IT - Computerworld UK Whitehall has extended the life of PCs, made double-sided printing the default option, made sure computers are turned off at night, incr...
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Pedro Hernandez posted an article on ecoINSITE - Sep 14, 2009, 5:27 pm
Electronic medical records not only hold the promise of eliminating inefficiency and improving the quality of care, they can also dramatically reduce the amount of paper the healthcare industry consum...
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Pedro Hernandez posted an article on ecoINSITE - Sep 14, 2009, 3:05 pm
Intel's New 'Jasper Forest' Chip Improves Performance With Less Power - PC World The processors are capable of configuring RAID 5 or RAID 6 data protection natively without an additional ...
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Pedro Hernandez posted an article on ecoINSITE - Sep 8, 2009, 12:24 pm
Virtualization, dedupe and low-power servers are all hailed as the vanguards of the green data center. Indeed, they are key elements in driving energy efficiency in the data center but there's one...
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Pedro Hernandez posted an article on ecoINSITE - Sep 1, 2009, 4:05 pm
Kace, Vizioncore Lead Cadre of New Virtualization Management Offerings - eWeek Virtualization management software vendors, including Kace, Vizioncore, Reflex Systems and Sychron, are using VMworld 20...
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Pedro Hernandez posted an article on ecoINSITE - Sep 1, 2009, 2:04 pm
They may have faded into the background (some pretty convincingly), but all those those cell sites require a lot of power! In his new Pike Research report, "How Mobile Networks Can Cut Carbon" (subsc...
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Pedro Hernandez posted an article on ecoINSITE - Aug 31, 2009, 6:02 pm
Here come AMD's six-core, ultra-low-power Opteron EEs - BetaNews Today, as expected, the company is announcing stage 3 of its plan: the rollout of its first ultra-low-power six-core Opteron serie...
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Pedro Hernandez posted an article on ecoINSITE - Aug 27, 2009, 6:17 pm
Dell released its 2009 Corporate Social Responsibility Report (PDF) this week. Within are many statistics related to the IT giant's work on the environmental front.  Here are some of the high...
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Pedro Hernandez posted an article on ecoINSITE - Aug 27, 2009, 6:09 pm
A Key to Greener Data Centers: Smarter Storage - Reuters/Earth2Tech Data storage can account for up to 40 percent of the energy consumed by a data center. Yikes -- but at the same time, it's not ...
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Pedro Hernandez posted an article on ecoINSITE - Aug 25, 2009, 11:42 am
I recently chatted with Analytico's Tom Trainer about his new GigaOM Pro report, "The Future of Data Center Storage" (subscription required) and wrote about some of the insights I gleaned for Eart...
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Pedro Hernandez posted an article on ecoINSITE - Aug 20, 2009, 3:34 pm
Why the Kindle Is Good for the Planet - Earth2Tech According to a fascinating report from the Cleantech Group, called The Environmental Impact of Amazon's Kindle, one e-Book device on average can...
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Pedro Hernandez posted an article on ecoINSITE - Aug 18, 2009, 4:32 pm
Experts debate Apple's plans for huge NC data center - Ars Technica However, hosting all of that content in one location--especially in one that isn't well situated to connect to multiple net...
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Pedro Hernandez posted an article on ecoINSITE - Aug 18, 2009, 2:12 pm
Sony today unveiled that the Playstation 3 Slim is a reality and that it will begin shipping in September.  Not only is the new unit 32 percent smaller (fewer materials) it consumes 34 percent le...
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Pedro Hernandez posted an article on ecoINSITE - Aug 17, 2009, 6:04 pm
The host of Discovery Channel's Build it Bigger, Danny Forster, designed a single family home that earned a LEED gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council. He eschews pricey tech for...
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Pedro Hernandez posted an article on ecoINSITE - Aug 17, 2009, 5:51 pm
An interesting little factoid emerged today.  According to David Finch, nearly a third of the netbooks sold by Dell ship with Linux, Ubuntu to be precise. OSNews reports: Even though Dell is on...
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