ABI Research has placed HP at the top of a new “Green Data Centre” vendor matrix, which analyses vendors according to their “innovation” and “implementation” across several criteria.
For the matrix, under “innovation,” ABI Research examined the firms’ carbon footprints, their regulatory compliance, recycling efforts, their efforts at “greening” internal operations, their use of video […]

HP and SunPower announced the completion of a 1.1 megawatt solar-electric power system on the roof of HP’s printing technology R&D facility in San Diego.
Under the deal, first made public last December, SunPower will install its SunPower T10 Solar Roof Tile commercial roof system on behalf of GE Energy Financial Services, who will own […]

Australia ISP, Internode, says it will now purchase all its power from green sources despite having to pay a 20% premium on its electricity supply.
Internode, which achieved carbon neutral status last year through the purchase of carbon credit offsets, will now buy green power in Australia from ‘fully audited sources,’ says Internode managing director Simon […]

The emerging capabilities of cloud computing environments holds the potential to drive efficiency of IT infrastructure as much as 100 fold, according to estimates of one application services provider.
READ the full interview with Graham Weston here
According to the chairman of Rackspace Hosting, Graham Weston, cloud computing, by driving up the utilization of data centre infrastructure, […]

Green Telecom’s Tony Chan speaks to Rackspace Hosting chairman, Graham Weston, on the company’s approach to green practices, what’s makes a green data centre and what’s the real significance of virtualisation.
Green Telecom: So what is Rackspace Hosting’s approach to ‘green’ practices?
Graham Weston: Two three years ago, we actually switched to AMD processors because they drew […]

French operator Orange will display environmental ratings for both fixed and mobile phones on its Web site and retail stores starting this month.
The initiative, part of a partnership with WWF-France, will display 5 categories of information on the environmental impact of phones for consumers.
“Orange and WWF France have opted to evaluate the environmental performance of […]

Nortel’s director of enterprise technology, Tony Rybczynski, writes in his blog that the sum emissions from the world’s install base of Cisco equipment is equivalent to over a trillion kilometres of travel in a small car.
“Across some 500 million Cisco enterprise ports globally, Cisco is adding an additional 11.5 MILLION metric tons of […]

Nokia Siemens Networks claims that the energy efficient characteristics of its Flexi Base Station has won the company a US$225 million turnkey network expansion deal with UAE operator, du.
The new contract includes a radio access solution that will support 2G, 3G and HSPA platforms and enables du to extend its network to cater for four […]

Two prevailing themes at last week’s CommsDay Melbourne Congress’ Green Telecom day were the issue of the impact of the Garnaut report on the telecommunications industry and the role of telecoms in helping other industries reduce their carbon footprint.
While the two themes seem diametrically opposed, as the first addresses the potential impact of a carbon […]

The keynote speaker for the CommsDay Melbourne Congress’ Green Telecom Day, Chloe Munro, Telstra’s executive director for innovation projects for the digital future, blasted the Garnaut report’s neglect of telecoms’ role in fighting climate change. Access her keynote presentation as well as slide decks from prominent speakers at our inaugural event in Melbourne here