green computing

After buying my laptop a few weeks ago, I was curious as to how “green” it was compared to the other laptops on the market.  During my research on how to evaluate how “green” a computer is, I found a great procurement tool called EPEAT (Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool).

Now, HP announces that the company's newly redesigned labs will focus sustainability research on three major areas: an industry-leading initiative to reduce the carbon footprint of data centers by 75 percent; efforts to replace copper wiring in servers with laser beams; and tools for measuring and managing the amount of energy used to develop products.

If you're an IT pro, though, going green may well be new to you, and you may not know where to begin. So here are five simple ways to get started going green. You'll be surprised how simple it is to get started, and how quickly you'll start seeing results.

A survey carried out within the 150-member Corporate iT Forum reveals 81 percent to have pushed Green IT further up their agenda compared to last year. But cost remains a crucial sticking point.

Employees have different graphics needs. Here is a guide to some of the least power-hungry graphics cards and ways to compare the performance and power use of cards.

What is claimed to be the first public document to look at the energy demands of IT products and services and set out a plan to cut IT’s carbon footprint has been published by Intellect, the UK tech industry’s trade association.

IBM, Nokia, Sony and bulk-mailing equipment manufacturer Pitney-Bowes have together donated patents to the Eco-patent Commons, an organisation set up to share the patents for technology with environmental benefits.

The Green500 List ranks the world's 500 most powerful super computers by their energy efficiency. It is an important riposte to an IT industry which has so far put speed first

The world's top supercomputers may be performance powerhouses, but they're also energy hogs, often using enough power to light up a small city. That is why two academics have created a new ranking that plots comuting power against energy consumption

Over a third of IT executives (42%) say their firm does not monitor its IT-related energy spending and a further 9% don’t know if their firm monitors this, according to a new report

This article looks at a new computer by Lenovo that surpasses the standards for green computers.