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GreenTouch release tools and technologies to significantly reduce mobile networks energy consumption

GreenTouch release tools and technologies to significantly reduce mobile networks energy consumption

By Tom Raftery on June 19, 2015

Mobile industry consortium GreenTouch today released tools and technologies which, they claim, have the potential to reduce the energy consumption of communication networks by 98% The world is now awash with mobile phones. According to Ericsson’s June 2015 mobility report [PDF warning], the total number of mobile subscriptions globally in Q1 2015 was 7.2 billion. […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged cellular, communications networks, Electricity 2.0, energy efficiency, greentouch, Internet of Things, IoT, mobile, mobile networks, Wireless

Smartphone energy management – when will there be an app for that?

Smartphone energy management – when will there be an app for that?

By Tom Raftery on March 21, 2012

I wrote a post last week about mobile endpoint management applications and their potential to extend smartphone battery life. It seems it was a prescient piece given the emergence this week of a study from Purdue University and Microsoft Research showing how energy is used by some smartphone applications [PDF]. The study indicates that many […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged ad-supported applications, android, Angry Birds, Energy, energy efficiency, eprof, Facebook, Free Chess, iOS, iPhone, mobile endpoint management, mobile energy management, NYTimes, Smartphone

HP joins ranks of microserver providers with Redstone

HP joins ranks of microserver providers with Redstone

By Tom Raftery on November 3, 2011

The machine in the photo above is HP’s newly announced Redstone server development platform. Capable of fitting 288 servers into a 4U rack enclosure, it packs a lot of punch into a small space. The servers are System on a Chip based on Calxeda ARM processors but according to HP, future versions will include “Intel® […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged amd, arm, atom, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Dell, energy efficiency, Facebook, hp, intel, microserver, open compute, project moonshot, redstone, seamicro

Carbon Disclosure Project’s emissions reduction claims for cloud computing are flawed

Carbon Disclosure Project’s emissions reduction claims for cloud computing are flawed

By Tom Raftery on July 21, 2011

The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) is a not-for-profit organisation which takes in greenhouse gas emissions, water use and climate change strategy data from thousands of organisations globally. This data is voluntarily disclosed by these organisations and is CDP’s lifeblood. Yesterday the CDP launched a new study Cloud Computing – The IT Solution for the 21st […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Carbon Disclosure Project, Carbon emissions, Cloud Computing, data center, data center carbon emissions, emissions reduction, Energy, energy efficiency, epa, greenhouse gas emissions, Uncategorized

FaceBook open sources building an energy efficient data center

FaceBook open sources building an energy efficient data center

By Tom Raftery on April 7, 2011

Back in 2006 I was the co-founder of a Data Centre in Cork called Cork Internet eXchange. We decided, when building it out, that we would design and build it as a hyper energy-efficient data centre. At the time, I was also heavily involved in social media, so I had the crazy idea, well, […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged data center, data centre, datacenter, datacentre, energy efficiency, Facebook, greenpeace, Open source, Pacific Power, prineville, renewables, unfriend coal

SAP’s new NetWeaver 7.3 has a nice energy efficiency story

SAP’s new NetWeaver 7.3 has a nice energy efficiency story

By Tom Raftery on March 4, 2011

  If, like me, you have been using technology for a while now, you will be used to the constant release-by-release bloating of software. The first time I installed Excel it was version 2.2 and at the time it fit comfortable on a 1.4mb 3.5″ floppy disk – remember floppy disks? In a pleasant bucking […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged energy efficiency, green code, Netweaver, netweaver business process management, netweaver portal, netweaver process integration, quick sizer, sap, SAP NetWeaver

Friday Green Numbers round-up for Feb 18th 2011

Friday Green Numbers round-up for Feb 18th 2011

By Tom Raftery on February 18, 2011

And here is a round-up of this week’s Green numbers… How La Poste Saves $7 Million a Year In IT Energy Costs France’s La Poste manages 180,000 PCs that sat mostly idle, yet still used as much electricity as if they were fully engaged in a difficult computing problem. “The AVOB solution does what other […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged AmbientLED, avob, electrochromic windows, energy efficiency, energy star, exxon, GreenNumbers, High-speed rail, Joule Unlimited, la poste, Liquid Fuel from the Sun, peak oil, Philips EnduraLED, Philips Lighting, Photosynthesis Research, rick scott, shell, soladigm, Waste Management, zero net energy

Sentilla thinks of data centers, as data factories!

Sentilla thinks of data centers, as data factories!

By Tom Raftery on February 17, 2011

If you have been following this blog, you’ll know I have been profiling Data Center efficiency companies over the last few weeks. This week I take a look at Sentilla. I talked to Sentilla’s CTO and co-founder, Joe Polastre, the other day and Joe told me that Sentilla came out of Berkeley where they had […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged data center, data centre, data centre energy efficiency, data factories, datacenter, datacentre, energy efficiency, sentilla, virtualisation, virtualization, vm clutter, VMware

Power Assure automates the reduction of data center power consumption

Power Assure automates the reduction of data center power consumption

By Tom Raftery on February 9, 2011

If you’ve been following this blog in the last couple of weeks you’ll have noticed that I have profiled a couple of data centre energy management companies – well, today it is the turn of Power Assure. The last time I talked to Power Assure was two years ago and they were still very early […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged bms, data center, Data Center Consolidation, data centre, datacenter, Dynamic Power Management, Dynamic Power Optimization, energy efficiency, NASA, pdu, power assure, tivoli, UPS | 1 Response

Friday Green Numbers round-up for Feb 4th 2011

Friday Green Numbers round-up for Feb 4th 2011

By Tom Raftery on February 4, 2011

And here is a round-up of this week’s Green numbers… Europe’s Energy Member States of the European Union have agreed on targets aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions by cutting energy consumption by 20% and increasing the share of renewables in the energy mix to 20% by 2020. The ‘Europe’s Energy’ project gives users a […]

Posted in Business | Tagged arctic oscillation, arctic sea ice, cleantech, climate change, distributech, Energy, energy efficiency, europe, fuel prices, global warming, GreenNumbers, nsidc, petrol, smart grid, utilities

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