Emailing "Monday News Roundup"
Monday News Roundup
• Students from Arizona's colleges and universities will
compete in Avnet's fifth annual Avnet Tech Games on Saturday, April 10, including Accenture's Green Data Center Challenge.
• MiserWare Inc., a spinoff using technology from Virginia Tech, is
giving away free software for energy-saving technology in Windows-based computers.
• Hara, a leading provider of environmental and energy management software,
announces a growing number of organizations have selected Hara to track, manage and optimize their energy and natural resource usage and environmental impact.
• ABB and IBM have
signed a new agreement to use green technologies that will transform ABB's information systems infrastructure across 17 countries in Europe, North America, and Asia Pacific.
• 1&1 Internet, the world's largest web host by know servers,
announces a new logo that its customers can use to promote that their website is eco-friendly.
• 3Com Corporation
announces that Miercom, an independent testing company, has certified the H3C data center core switch the industry's first data center class products to receive the Miercom "Certified Green" designation.
• Researchers at Princeton University
believe new developments in technology may one day make data centers more green by using materials developed for dragonfly spy drone technology to convert vibrations into electricity.
• Actuate Corporation has
completed its takeover of Green IT firm Xenos Group Inc.
• Greenstone Carbon
announces a strategic partership with Zen'to to help organizations in France meet new carbon footprint reporting requirements.
• Executives from Solarflare Communications, the company pioneering 10 Gigabit Ethernet, will
present the latest on green trends in data center management at two upcoming industry conferences.
• The core and shell of a building in Washington State built by Sabey and housing a VMware data center have been
awarded LEED Gold certification.
• Dust Networks, the leading supplier of standards-based wireless sensor networking products,
announced that their wireless sensor networking technology is being used by Federspiel Controls Inc., in one of 14 projects awarded funding by the Department of Energy.
• Singapore
becomes the 41st country to join the EPEAT green electronics rating system.
• The Green Grid
introduces new tools and new industry alliances at its Third Annual Green Grid Technical Forum and Members Meeting.