Green IT

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  • How to make your data centre greener
    Overseeing the green data centre program in Digital Realty Trust facilities around the world has given Jim Smith the opportunity to speak at numerous data centre conferences, share case studies about energy-efficiency initiatives in facilities, and offer advice about best practices for making data centres greener and more sustainable. Smith has gained valuable insights from attendees in the best practices for greener data centres, which he shares with Voice&Data.
  • Tyco Electronics and Green Star rating
    Tyco Electronics is a valued member of The Green Building Council of Australia, a governing body of the Green Star Rating program.
  • Tyco Electronics is RoHS compliant
    Tyco Electronics solutions are made to comply with strict RoHS requirements. RoHS is a global program which restricts the use of hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment.
  • Tyco Electronics ‘3R Green’ program
    ‘3R Green’ is a Tyco Electronics green-friendly program focusing on research and development of sustainable, energy saving, environmentally friendly solutions.
  • How to save energy with smart cabling - don’t get fooled!
    New buzzwords such as carbon footprint, green buildings, green applications, power-demand reduction strategies, green star ratings, sustainable development and other catch phrases only make sense in their proper context.
  • Walk the talk
    When ADC Krone talks the talk, it’s not just talking about quality and being environmentally responsible. It’s actually doing it and being able to demonstrate that it walks the talk, as Mike Hanahoe, director, Global Connectivity Solutions Asia-Pacific, explains.
  • The crucial role of the data centre
    The topic of sustainability or green IT remains a key focus for everyone in the industry this year. On the bright side, doing business is more accessible than ever before. Advances in technology have reduced transaction costs, created broader access to global markets and advanced technologies, and levelled the playing field among small businesses, large corporations, emerging economies and industrialised nations. IBM’s Mark Latchford tracks the positive changes in sustainable IT.
  • Improving data centre efficiency
    Clearly, improved electrical efficiency within the IT room - the ‘greening of the data center’ - is now a priority. APC’s Gordon Makryllos outlines why data centres are so energy inefficient and offers practical tips that they can use to become ‘green’.
  • Cooling tough economic times
    The global financial crisis is the focus of almost everyone’s attention. Its effect on the ICT sector remains uncertain; however, it has taken the impetus off ‘going green’. Server Racks Australia’s Simon Dunphy elaborates on ways to move forward in the server room and data centre in times of reduced budgets and the need for increased efficiencies while also going green.
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Product (7)
  • Extreme Networks XNV data centre virtualisation life cycle management
    The XNV network-based dynamic data centre virtualisation life cycle management solution provides visibility, control and automation of virtual machines (VM) to the network administrator.
  • Raritan Dominion PX rack PDUs range
    The Raritan Dominion PX range of rack power distribution units allows real-time remote power monitoring of current (amps), voltage, power (kVA, kW) and energy consumption (kWH) with ISO/IEC ±1% billing-grade accuracy.
  • Hewlett-Packard energy-efficient systems
    Hewlett-Packard has announced a number of products to assist businesses to manage power costs, including the Compaq 8100 Elite Desktop PC series that features 89% energy-efficient power supplies, supports energy-saving technologies such as solid state drives (SSDs) and offers the company’s power-management solutions.
  • Containerised data centre range
    Datapod and APC by Schneider Electric have launched the Datapod - a containerised data centre system range that is locally designed, developed and manufactured.
  • Eco-friendly switches
    The DGS-1005D D-Link Green Switch is a 5-port gigabit desktop switch claimed to provide up to 73% reduced power consumption without sacrificing network performance when compared to other D-Link switches.
  • Carbon emission reporting
    Cintellate is a software product that simplifies carbon emissions reporting for Australian businesses.
  • MEPS testing of power adapters and battery chargers
    As electrical energy resources become limited and the impacts of the greenhouse emissions are being felt, the Australian and New Zealand governments are implementing new regulatory regimes for external power supplies and certain battery chargers.
News (4)
  • Global Switch will add further data centre capacity in Sydney
    Global Switch will build an additional $300 million fully fitted data centre in Sydney having received Part 3A Major Projects approval from the NSW Department of Planning. The 34,000 m2 new data centre - Sydney 2 - will be adjacent to Global Switch's existing data centre in Sydney, which is already the largest facility of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere with 42,000 m2 of space.
  • CrimTrac opens green data centre
    CrimTrac gets cleaner, greener way of securing law enforcement data within the Canberra Data Centre.
  • The Green IT Readiness Index
    Datacom remains an exception to the general rule when it comes to green IT.
  • Green IT is still a long way off
    CIOs say they want green but they aren't green, a new report from Connection Research found.
Case Study (2)
  • Abigroup captures its emissions data with reporting system
    In search of a simple yet effective software system to improve effective capturing of emissions data, and driven by the added responsibility of reporting emissions under legislative requirements recently imposed under the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Regulations 2008, national contractor Abigroup has implemented Ndevr’s Greenhouse Emissions Reporting Solution.
  • Synergy finds synergy cutting printing costs
    Western Australian electricity retailer Synergy was established in 2006 when Western Power was disaggregated into separate electricity generation, electricity transmission and electricity retail organisations. While there is a contestable market for large electricity users, Synergy has an effective monopoly over electricity retail to small and medium enterprises and domestic users in South-West Western Australia.
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