UK servers are on average producing an excess of 632 kilograms (0.622 tons) of CO2 per server per year, according to a new study.

Carrenza, a UK-based company that designs, builds and manages hosted networks, has launched a virtualised hosting service that it claims can reduce annual data centre costs by up to 20 percent and power consumption by 60 percent.

The notion of green computing is an unhelpful one, making it harder for companies to implement carbon reduction policies. That's according to a new report from the Carbon Disclosure Project, which questioned 11 leading enterprises about their environmental policies.

Excessive hype, over-pricing and a lack of budgetary responsibility for energy bills are all hitting green IT sales, according to one of Europe's biggest surveys on the topic.

IT managers have been accused of ignoring green issues after a new survey from international consultancy group Morse revealed that 89 percent of businesses have no idea how much energy the IT department uses.

BP, the Nectar loyalty card scheme and IT supplier Atos Origin on Monday launched a five-month personal carbon credit trading trial, intended to show that such a scheme could be set up inexpensively and using current technology.

Nexsan claims to be the first supplier with an energy-efficient SAS storage system. The company has taken its AutoMAID technology, which throttles back the power usage of hard drives that are not currently being accessed, and applied it to a SAS array.

3Com has claimed it leads the market in making its networking gear more energy efficient. The company based its claim on a report by US analyst firm In-Stat; however, a rival has charged that 3Com only counted its role in enterprise-class large switches and may actually lag behind in greening the key market for small and mid-sized Ethernet switches.

Modern PCs use only a small fraction of their processing power and waste energy. According to NComputing, there is an answer to the malady, a new desktop virtualisation product, with a much lower per seat cost compared with competitor products from VMware, Citrix, Microsoft and Wyse.

VMware is talking up the green benefits of its virtualisation technology after recording a strong performance in the first quarter.

Nearly half of IT professionals admit that they had run out of space, power or cooling capacity at their data centres, according to a recent survey.

Nearly half of IT professionals admit that they had run out of space, power or cooling capacity at their data centres, according to a recent survey.

Extreme Networks has announced new 802.11n wireless access points and switches, and measures to help users cut the electrical power demands of their switches.

Aruba Networks and Avaya last week touted the green credentials of remote workers after both companies announced they would collaborate on an IP-based voice and data access system for teleworkers.

Enterprises looking to calculate their carbon footprint have been offered a helping hand by British software company, Access Accounting. The company has incorporated a tool within its accounting package that will enable enterprises to assess the carbon footprint of individual users or departments within the company.

More than 80 percent of organisations have moved green IT further up their list of priorities, although it still lags well behind issues such as security, legacy software, data quality and server consolidation.

Half of all British computer users fail to recycle old PCs or dispose of them responsibly. The scale of the problem has been revealed by research from Fujitsu Siemens Computers (FSC).

Is your CIO the best in the business? Is he or she a technical wizard? Do you have someone who can communicate a well thought-out strategy and deliver on it? Is your CIO someone with excellent management skills who ensures that the organisation's IT staff are well supported in all they do?

Kell Systems has launched a remote management system specifically designed to monitor and control the environmental conditions of its server enclosures.

German enterprise printing specialist ThinPrint is touting the green and security benefits of its new "follow-me" printing system.

German enterprise printing specialist ThinPrint is touting the green and security benefits of its newly launched "follow-me" printing system.

D-Link has introduced business-targeted desktop Ethernet switches that include its Green Ethernet technology, which detects inactive ports and short cables, and throttles its transmit power accordingly. The company claimed that in tests, this reduced a switch's power consumption by up to 46 percent.

Computacenter has agreed a formal tie-up with Xsigo Systems, a technology leader in I/O virtualisation.

Computacenter has agreed a formal tie-up with Xsigo Systems, a technology leader in I/O virtualisation.

The annual revenue of videoconferencing services companies for 2006 almost doubled to $607 million from $308 million in 2005, according to a recent survey. That's in spite of last week's findings that companies are only paying lip service to the notion of green computing, of which videoconferencing is seen as one element because of its ability to reduce business travel.