Articles from Lisa Rhodes (Lisa)

1. Hardware lifecycle: The Acid Test for Green Data Centers - By Doug Mohney Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jan 5 2011) Servers --> If you're serious about greening your data center, you can answer two simple questions: Where does your old server and IT hardware go when you get rid of it? Are you sure it is being disposed in a green fashion? Sooner or later -- probably later, by my estimation -- hardware manufacturers will start putting "carbon manufacturing" (CM) estimates on their marketing literature.  Simply put, if you buy a server, you should be able to look and see how many pounds of carbon was put into the atmosphere to 1) Build it and 2) ship it to the country of use.  Bonus points for 3) Estimated amount of carbon/energy/resources it will take for end-of-life disposal. Do I expect anyone to make drastic purchasing changes based on the CM numbers for a particular server? Not really, but it is a nice next starting point for the engineering and marketing people ... (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Doug Mohney

2. Ginormous Growth of Bio IT good news/bad news for data centers - By Doug Mohney Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Dec 8 2010) An evening at the Hudson Alpha Institute for Biotechnology (www.hudsonalpha.org) in Huntsville, Alabama last week left me ready to laugh and cry.   One of things Hudson Alpha does is sequence the building blocks of life - DNA, genomes, all that good stuff.  A sequenced human genome consumes about 8 GB of data. With today's latest technology, it roughly costs about $15,000 to $20,000 to do and takes around a week or so to finish, but there's a big push to drastically cut cost and increase speed of sequencing.  The target goal of the $10 million dollar Archon X prize is to sequence 100 human genomes in 10 days at under $10,000 per genome, but the bio community feels pretty confident that it will hit a target of around $1000 per person and do it within a day or two.  The advances here make Moore ... (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Doug Mohney

3. Greenpeace’s polite call for cleaner/greener electronics - by Doug Mohney Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jan 27 2010) Greenpeace is not typically known for playing nice, but its annual report on “Greener electronics” released at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) a few weeks ago wasn’t exactly fire and brimstone – no calls for boycotts, no dramatic media action to block harmful chemicals from reaching manufacturers. Instead, manufacturers simply received “penalty points” in a report and an admonition to do better. How boring! Instead, HP got a “Best in Show” award from Greenpeace for building the HP Compaq 8000f Elite Ultra Slim Desktop PC, proportedly the first free of brominated flame retardants (BFRs) and polyvinyl chloride (PVC) “from the wall to the mouse. Overall, HP trailed Apple, Sony Ericsson and Nokia in Greenpeace’s “Guide to Green Electronics.” (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Doug Mohney

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