Open Compute - Yes it really is radical! by Peter Judge

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (May 6 2012)

...acebook, Google and Zynga have been going direct to the people that make equipment for the likes of IBM, HP and Dell. . What Open Compute does, according to GigaOM, is to bring those back-room deals into... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Forrester Research   Google   The Green Grid

IBM PureSystems Converge RISC and x86, Network And Storage

Explore TechWeekEurope UK (Apr 11 2012) Networking , Storage

...nverged data centre entry attempts to package up expertise as well as hardware On April 11, 2012 by Peter Judge 0 IBM has leapt into the market for converged data centre hardware, but combined it with expertise encap... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Intel   IBM   Peter Judge

Liquid Cooling – It All Comes Flooding Back

Explore TechWeekEurope UK (Mar 7 2012) Servers

...ck, we heard that servers would be going to liquid cooling,. The idea seems to be resurfacing, says Peter Judge On March 7, 2012 by Peter Judge 0 When launching its new Xeon E5 range of processors this week, Intel made a lot of how efficient t......through a heat exchanger, and have a good supply of hot water, for heating or other needs. In 2009, IBM told us to ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Intel   IBM   Peter Judge

when the sun comes back, how much will it do for us - by Peter Judge

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jan 8 2012)

...farms could have a role in providing some of the power needed by data centers. Facebook,  Apple and IBM have all made moves here, and they are not just a token gesture. However, solar may be more usefu... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Nokia   Facebook

Thor Icelandic Data Centre Sold To Service Provider

Explore TechWeekEurope UK (Jan 5 2012)

...es on the Thor containerised data centre and will sell its services worldwide On January 5, 2012 by Peter Judge 0 Icelandic service provider Skyrr has bought the container-based Thor data centre and aims to ......rom the Icelandic government’s municipal data centre which was set up in 1952, and began with early IBM mainframes. Skyrr still has a lot of government work in Iceland, and subsidiaries in Scandinavian... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   Norway

Let's get the cloud into perspective - By Peter Judge

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Oct 10 2011)

...nteresting scepticism at the IT channel event run by analyst firm Canalys last week in Barcelona. IBM’s WebSphere vice president Craig Hayman sashayed on stage to the sound of Lady Gaga, before likenin... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   IBM   Peter Judge

greenpeace shifts its sights to apple - by Peter Judge

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Apr 25 2011)

...the data centers of ten companies altogether - the full roster is Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Twitter, IBM, Microsoft, HP, Akamai and Amazon. I think there are three interesting side issues thrown up by t... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Amazon.com

Global Warming: Will Data Centers Take a Back Seat Role? - By Peter Judge

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jan 18 2011)

...hey do can be used to properly optimise the other 98 percent, so the argument goes from people like IBM and others.  But it turns out, in the global stage, isnot the star. . “Green IT was a fad, an... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   IBM   Peter Judge

Clouds, Air Cooling...and King Canute - By Peter Judge

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Dec 13 2010)

...rsion of its Ice Cube, which combines the two in one unit. AST Modular - the company which supplies IBM’s container products - has gone for a double-decker concept, where there is a whole extra container... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Norway   IBM

Double-Decker Data Centre Container Is Cooled By Air

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Dec 8 2010) Container , Servers

...ng low-energy combination, which is in use at an efficient data centre in Iceland, is being sold by IBM. The Natural FreeCooling system is an add-on to data centres built inside shipping containers, whi...... a launch event in London. Double-Decker Data Centre Container Is Cooled By Air December 8, 2010 by Peter Judge thortop AST Modular has shoved a cooling module on top of its data centre containers AST Modular ... (Read Full Article)

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Modularity Brings New Green Challenges By Peter Judge

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Nov 5 2010)

...sure that the communications is available.   Recently Doug Mohney drew my attention to the way IBM is planning to grow in Africa. That is a region which needs to see some economic growth - it’s lagg... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Doug Mohney   IBM   Peter Judge

Who's the leader of the pack? The power of green awards. By Peter Judge

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Nov 1 2010)

...vited 28 big ICT players and persuaded 19 to actually take part. It’s not much of a surprise to see IBM at the top of the list - given the company’s very public support for sustainability at its Start Su... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Nokia

Reinventing Capitalism - Or Ducking The Issue - by Peter Judge

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Sep 20 2010)

...s C.  It’s taken seventeen years to agree on a definition,” said Porritt on Thursday, closing the IBM Start Summit that’s been going on since the previous week. “If it takes another seventeen years to ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   IBM   Peter Judge

IBM Wants To Be START-ing Something? - by Peter Judge

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Sep 13 2010)

You can rely on IBM to take the big view. The company’s Smarter Planet marketing message sounds like it wants to save t... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   IBM   Peter Judge

The Data center That Came By Truck - by Peter Judge

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jul 12 2010)

...e cloud. The EU wants cloud standards, users want cloud (business) standards. Cisco is doing it and IBM is doing it. The UK government is pretty much making sure all its departments will do it, by cuttin... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Cisco   IBM   Peter Judge

Royalty weighs in on green tech - by peter judge

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jun 7 2010)

...cture says it all really. Prince Charles is holding a garden party to promote green technology. And IBM is going to be there. So here we see the heir to the British throne, standing in the long grass... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Hewlett Packard   IBM   Sam Palmisano

HP Launches New Servers And Finance Advice

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (May 11 2010) Cloud Computing

...rd's new servers are fast, but today's announcement is all about finding ways to pay for them * By: Peter Judge * May 11, 2010 Add to digg Add to Facebook Add to LinkedIn Add to reddit Add to Slashdot Add to Stu......kely to be inappropriate and wasteful. HP’s announcement duplicates a lot of what is available from IBM, which promised greater business “agility” last week, and also ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Gartner   Hewlett Packard   Facebook

Liquid Cooling - Competition Increases: By Peter Judge

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Mar 21 2010)

... time, particularly on supercomputers, but is widely tipped to be much more widely used on servers. IBM has predicted that all servers will be liquid cooled within ten years.  Iceotope builds extra cool... (Read Full Article)

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This week, it's all about the standby - by Peter Judge

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Mar 3 2010)

...orm which also puts your turbine out of action?  Whether or not they are useful for standby power, IBM seems to have pushed solar cell technology forward with a technology that cuts the price by doing a... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   IBM   Peter Judge   eBay

Green It- show me the measurement - by Peter Judge

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jan 25 2010) Power and Cooling , Carbon Footprint , Carbon Reduction Commitment

...t Sharifah Amirah, however, is that companies are getting better at reporting what they are doing: “IBM seems to be the most advanced in its measurements of environmental investments while British Teleco... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   British Telecom   Carbon Reduction Commitment

Time to Dive into Liquid Cooling - by Peter Judge

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Nov 30 2009) Servers

...he launch of a new system which claims to cut cooling costs for servers, by around 93 percent - and IBM has predicted that all servers could ultimately be cooled by liquid. Liquid cooling used to be ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   IBM   Peter Judge