Emailing "Monday News Roundup"
News Roundup
• Fujitsu has
developed a new structure for gallium-nitride high electron-mobility transistors that can minimize power loss in power supplies, with applications for IT hardware and home electronics.
• The New York Stock Exchange is
building new data centers with 10 gigabit Ethernet technology to support internal latency of 50 ms roundtrip. Oh and it’s green too.
• Unilever
joins the Climate Savers Computing Initiative, along with over 470 other companies already in it.
• American Internet Services’ data center greening efforts has been
recognized with an award by San Diego Gas & Electric.
• Bank Technology News
thinks that banks should start going green now, especially in IT, to get ahead of government regulations. Good advice!
• NextGen Research
predicts that purchases of green computers will grow from less than a sixth of the market in 2009 to nearly two thirds (over $190 billion) by 2013.
• Sony
reduced its global CO2 emissions by approximately 100,000 tons in fiscal year 2008. In Sony Europe, every facility with over 100 employees is powered exclusively by renewable energy.
• Yahoo
announces it will become carbon-neutral by becoming more energy-efficient, not through purchasing carbon offsets.