Targus goes green with new laptop cases
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Targus is launching the initiative with its new EcoSmart PVC-free laptop cases, which make the production of EcoSmart cases less harmful to the ecosystem and reduces toxic waste.
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Company claims its new laptops feature the world's brightest screens.
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By Kris Wernowsky, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Times Leader  Feb. 9--HANOVER TWP. -- Hanover Area School District recently purchased nine Apple laptop computers for its school board members.
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By Anonymous  Chinese personal computer manufacturer Lenovo Group Ltd. shot up to first from last place in the latest Greenpeace Green Electronic Guide, which ranks 14 large high-tech companies on their "green" efforts. The guide, which was published in April, shows Apple Inc.
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The new Scorpio is designed specifically for laptops and portable drive enclosures.
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Customers including Allstate Insurance are actively pursuing green strategies, but say they want standards to help them gauge data center energy efficiency.
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Environmental group's ranking of hardware vendors purports to show which are green, which lag ecologically.
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Buy new servers more often - it'll make you greener.... Intel has kicked off a campaign to make data centres more efficient and less environmentally damaging. Paradoxically, one of its key messages seems to be that companies need to refresh their servers - ie. buy new ones - more often.â¦
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(InfoWorld) - Dell will neutralize its carbon emissions and become carbon neutral by the end of 2008, chairman and CEO Michael Dell announced Wednesday. Dell is the first major computer manufacturer to announce its intention to balance its carbon emissions with activities that reduce carbon in the atmosphere. Companies have a responsibility to improve the environment, Dell said during a speech in Washington, D.C. "There's been a time in history of business where it's more important for organizations of all sizes to partner together to positively impact the Earth that well all share," Dell said. "It's not enough for Dell to be an environmental leader. We also need to partner with our customers ... to dramatically improve our own customers' environmental impacts." Dell will reduce its net carbon emissions in several ways, Dell said. The company will focus on creating more energy-efficient products and will purchase more energy-efficient electrical power, he said. Dell, the world's second-largest PC manufacturer, will also push its major suppliers to report and reduce their carbon emissions. If a supplier's carbon emissions are excessive, the company may penalize the supplier, although Dell didn't offer details about the penalties. Dell has also expanded itsÂ Plant a Tree for MeÂ program, which allows individual customers to pay a small amount to plant a tree as a way to offset the energy consumption of the laptops or PCs they purchase from the company. Dell has announced a Plant a Forest for Me program, partnering with companies including Salesforce.com, Ask.com, and Advanced Micro DevicesÂ in a reforesting program intended to offset carbon emissions. Companies can do many things to reduce carbon emissions, Dell said. They can purchase energy-efficient IT equipment, consolidate servers through virtualization, and use software to turn off computers and monitors after employees go home. Customers demanding energy efficiency are pushing IT vendors away from the old price/performance metric to a new "performance per watt" metric, Dell said. "Thinking about IT in terms of performance per watt forces businesses like ours to rethink the way products are designed and the way they're used," Dell said. In June, the company set the goal of becoming "the greenest technology on the planet." Governments can also play a role in encouraging companies to protect the environment, Dell added. Governments could give research credits to companies to improve energy efficiency and could provide incentives for companies to encourage green policies such asÂ telecommuting, he said. The 3.9 million telecommuters in the United States saved 840 million gallons of gasoline in a year, according to a recent Consumer Electronics Association report. Dell will continue to work with other tech vendors on environmental issues, Dell said. "While we vigorously compete in many areas in our business, when it comes to the environment, there actually are not competitors, only partners," he said. Dan Burton, senior vice president for global public policy at Salesforce.com, praised Dell's speech. With its focus on improving the environment through its business practices, "Dell is really redefining what is corporate philanthropy," Burton said.
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(InfoWorld) - Financial traders at a London company wear shorts to work because heat from workstations under their desks is so bad. Hewlett-Packard has invented technology to take the workstations out from under the desks and replace them with blade-style computers tucked away in a separate datacenter. HP's Blade Workstation, to be introduced Thursday, is an addition to the company's ProLiant line of servers. While end users still have a monitor, mouse and keyboard at their desks, the CPU (central processing unit) is now in the datacenter. This configuration shares similarities with the "thin client" architecture that has been available for a number of years, in which end users are connected by a network to remote servers. And while some of HP's competitors offer blade style replacements for personal computers, an industry analyst says HP's is the first known product that replaces desk-site workstation hardware with a blade at a remote location. "HP has kind of caught the other guys napping with regard to really applying this technology to a workstation," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst with Enderle Group, a technology consulting firm. The Blade Workstation is designed for environments where end users need a lot of computing power at their desks but don't want the CPU generating excessive heat, said Don Olsen, worldwide business development manager for HP's Blade Workstations. People on the trading floor of the London financial firm operated with as many as three to five workstations under their desks that fed multiple monitors displaying all sorts of financial data, Olsen said, declining to identify the firm. Although the room was air conditioned, it was still as hot as 86 degrees Fahrenheit below the desks. "Some of these guys were wearing shorts on their lower half because it was so warm under their desk but a jacket on top because the cold air was coming out of the ceiling," Olsen said. By moving to a new trading floor in which the under desk workstations were replaced with blades in a remote datacenter, the temperature below the desk fell to 68 degrees Fahrenheit. Moving the workstations to the data center makes it easier to cool the computers, as excessive heat can affect performance, and also improves data security, he said. The Blade Workstation setup also includes HP Remote Graphics Software (RGS) that delivers the robust graphics required of end users in such high-computing environments as financial trading and computer-aided design. End users who still need those multiple monitors can't afford to have latency problems. While similar to Microsoft's Remote Desk Protocol for delivering images to monitors from a remote data center, RGS is designed for the high-demand graphics environment, Olsen said. Pricing for the blade hardware starts at $6,400 although if purchased in volume, it starts at $4,900, HP said. The equipment on the client desktop starts at between $600 to $800, though it drops to $450 to $650 if purchased in volume. Hitachi Data SystemsÂ and ClearCube Technology offer blade replacements but only for personal computers at the desk, not workstations, Enderle said. Although impressive, the HP Blade Workstation may be limited to new construction, he added. "Itâs somewhat difficult to retrofit. Where this makes the most sense is ... where you are talking about a new building."
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Blog: The new company specializes in notebooks with personalized designs. But is there room for another enthusiast PC company?
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Southern California PC maker goes Hollywood with new desktops.
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Software company Hyperion Solutions is giving its employees good reason to go green when they buy a car. In a move that combines corporate citizenship with good public relations, the Santa Clara, Calif.
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Gateway is expected to announce a new lineup of business desktops based on a new PC chassis design that removes heat from the system and can help extend the life of a PC, according to the company.
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From the "luggable" Apple IIc and Commodore SX-64 to today's Asus Eee PC, portable computers have gotten ever smaller and sleeker. Here are some favorites from days past.
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Two new products are designed to make it easier for businesses to connect storage computers across long distances.
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Blog: Sun says its new blade servers are more energy efficient, and contain no plastic.