An Innovative Way to Cool

One thing is for certain, power costs are going to increase and computer stuff will use more power. A new approach at the University of Texas in Austin as Servers Take Dip to Keep Cool. The pilot system emerged off the shelf servers (disk drives were encapsulated) completely in a non conductive oil providing a significant decrease in the amount of power needed to cool the system.

ComputerWorld (August 12, 2011)

Advantage Green

We know that ‘green’ happens to the politically correct term to use and that some of these ideas are a little outside the box; these Top 8 Ways To Take Advantage of Green IT make sense. The US Government Accounting Office (GAO) put out a report on how the government IT groups can benefit and the benefits apply to any IT environment.

NetworkWorld (August 8, 2011)