Chris Mellor

Articles by Chris Mellor

Green Grid delivers — for members only

A global consortium dedicated to developing and promoting energy efficiency for data centres and information service delivery offers tools to bring down power levels. But they'll cost you at least US$5,000

D-Link promotes power-saving switches

The company introduces a set of Green Ethernet products that it says will use up to 44 per cent less energy than existing gear already on the market. Discover two ways to reduce electricity use

Environmentalists question carbon offsetting practice

The environmental pressure group, FOE (Friends of the Earth), believes carbon offsetting tactics are a smokescreen to avoid real measures to counter climate change.

D-Link promotes power-saving switches

Networking vendor is going green with new Ethernet switches that it claims consumes close to 50 per cent less power than existing competing products.

Users: Vendors should provide greener storage

BridgeHead's annual Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) Audit, clearly shows a growing interest in energy efficient technologies by both U.K. and U.S.companies

Cassatt finds answer to idle servers

The company debuts Active Power Management, which it claims can run on any platform, requires no change to existing hardware and software configurations or new software, and is compatible with existing power distribution and UPS equipment

Storage trade group gets green makeover

SNIA has suddenly sprouted green leaves with a task force, working party, and tutorial all directed to making products more environmentally friendly

Green Grid to deliver more studies by the year’s end

Instead of delivering on its data centre power-efficiency work, a non-profit plans additional research. The job of producing usable power-efficiency metrics is proving difficult

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