Green gong goes to power utility’s data centre

I try not to power down by galaxy tab 2 and just switch off the screen. It seems to loose approx 8% of its power with wifi turned off.

The U.S. government has been urging green IT practices in its operations, consolidating data centers and offering telecommuting. Now it wants to go a step further and use its formidable buying power to encourage IT vendors to go green.

Microsoft is aiming to significantly improve the power efficiency of its data centres in the next two years.

A group of organizations led by The Green Grid has recommended a standard way for data centers to measure their Power Usage Effectiveness, aiming to bring consistency to the metric and make it easier for different facilities to compare their results.

The NSW Government has given data centre operator, Global Switch the green light to build a new $300m data centre in Pyrmont on the fringe of the CBD, adjacent to its existing data centre.

Written by: Stephen WithersAn Australian company has won the first Dell Asia Pacific PartnerDirect Excellence Award for Storage.

{loadposition stephen08}Sydney-based Regal-IT beat other Dell partners from China, Korea, Japan, Thailand and India in the storage category of the inaugural Dell Asia Pacific PartnerDirect Excellence Awards.

"The APJ PartnerDirect Excellence Awards is a platform t

The National Australia Bank (NAB) is laying claim to the title of first organisation in the country to use tri-generation (trigen) power in its data centre.

A third of Australia’s IT managers never see their power bill, leaving them with no incentive to reduce it through green IT initiatives.

Pacnet has launched its Hong Kong Data Landing Station (DLS), claiming it to be the first carrier neutral data centre facility of its kind in the Asia Pacific region.