Information Week summarizes the features of the new energy efficient Dell PowerEdge M-series blade server.
Dell Touts Energy Efficiency In M-Series Blade Servers
The M600 blade is built around two quad-core Intel Xeon processors while the M605 is build around two dual-core AMD Opteron processors. The M1000e chassis is takes up 10U of space and can house […]

From Information Week
Going Green Could Save Government $1 Billion In Five Years, Say Reports
…quotes reports (named Go Green Power Play and Go Green PC Power) funded by HP and Intel. This report focuses on the US Federal government and does not look at state and local governments.

Many many years ago I bought my first Hayes Smartmodem 300 (that’s 300 baud or bits per second for the youngsters out there, not 300Kbps). Unfortunately, I didn’t have any software to actually use it. So, I spent an evening writing a small terminal emulator in 8080 assembler. I even threw in VT100 emulation and […]

InformationWeek reports on the bay area 365 Main data center cuttings its electricity cost by $54K last year by going green.
Data Center Operator Cuts Energy Bill By Going ‘Green’
Given the kind and number of servers and comm equipment in there (I’m guessing of course), I somehow expected that savings number to be much larger (six […]

It is a little hard to find on Costco’s web site, but the company has an interesting Trade-in & Recycle Program for electronic equipment. It looks like they’ve contractd with GreenSight Technologies to employ… a zero tolerance landfill policy meaning all of the material that is subject to recycling is disassembled by hand, carefully separated […]