Tag: efficiency

Networking

Google criticises data centre energy standards

By David Neal | Apr 14, 2010 | Comment Now

Shouldn't dictate how efficiency is achieved.

Hardware

Supercapacitors to improve mobile battery efficiency

Mar 13, 2010 | Comment Now

Prototypes absorb and reuse wasted energy.

Strategy

Defence budget audit calls for IT efficiency

By Ry Crozier | Nov 18, 2009 | Comment Now

Pappas Review made public.

Storage

Six steps to greater datacentre efficiency

By Doug Washburn | Nov 11, 2009 | 1 Comment

Forrester Research offers best practice advice.

Storage

IBM adds to storage array with DS8700

By David Neal | Oct 24, 2009 | Comment Now

Promises improved performance and less energy consumption.

Storage

Centrelink goes digital with customer forms

Sep 1, 2009 | Comment Now

Receives more than a million pages everyday.

Software

Sun Microsystems issues Solaris 10 5/09 update

By Shaun Nichols | May 4, 2009 | Comment Now

Sun Microsystems has issued the 10 5/09 update for its Solaris operating system, offering several new components designed to improve the energy efficiency of servers.

Storage

NetApp storage efficiency guarantee debunked

By Brett Winterford | Mar 10, 2009 | Comment Now

EMC has dismissed competitor NetApp’s ‘Storage Efficiency Guarantee’ as a shallow marketing stunt, governed by conditions that make it pointless for most organisations.

Hardware

Inside the manageNET ASIO T4 data centre

By Ry Crozier | Dec 12, 2008 | Comment Now

iTnews takes a look at how the old Baltimore Technologies data centre in northern Sydney is getting a new lease on life.

Networking

Power reduction could bite you: Gartner

By Ry Crozier | Nov 12, 2008 | Comment Now

Data centre managers should be wary of committing to a long-term total reduction in the centre’s power as part of green initiatives, Gartner has warned.

Networking

New algorithm boosts network routing efficiency

Aug 28, 2008 | Comment Now

A newly-developed algorithm for computer network routing could significantly boost the efficiency of networks that share ever-changing Internet resources.

Hardware

Green500 v3 ranks supercomputer energy efficiency

Jul 18, 2008 | Comment Now

IBM’s BladeCenter QS22 Cluster and the one-year-old Blue Gene/P have topped the latest edition of the Green500 List of the most energy-efficient supercomputers.

Networking

P4P model to boost internet efficiency

By Robert Jaques | May 29, 2008 | Comment Now

A team of researchers from Yale University is aiming to make the internet work more efficiently by improving cooperation between ISPs and peer-to-peer software providers..

Software

Dutch algorithm optimises Wi-Fi efficiency

By Robert Jaques | Apr 28, 2008 | Comment Now

A Dutch researcher has developed algorithms designed to optimise the efficiency of wireless networks..

Networking

Data centres failing on energy efficiency

By Robert Jaques | Apr 24, 2008 | Comment Now

Nearly two-thirds of IT and facilities staff consider the energy efficiency of their data centre to be 'average' or 'worse than average', new research reveals..

Hardware

Boffins boost solar cell efficiency

By Robert Jaques | Feb 26, 2008 | Comment Now

A team of US researchers has developed an anode coating strategy which they claim significantly enhances the efficiency of solar energy power conversion..

Hardware

Solar cells break efficiency record

By Iain Thomson | Aug 2, 2007 | Comment Now

Researchers at the University of Delaware (UD) have developed a solar cell that can convert sunlight to power with 42.8 percent efficiency – a new record.