ComputerWorld points out a stark disparity between green IT hype and actual practice for Desktop IT managers.
Forrester Research says only 13% of IT managers have implemented wide-scale power management for PCs.
The EPA estimates that 10% or less of all enterprise PCs have their power management features turned on.
It’s not that they don’t care. Only 9% of [...]
The EPA is working on an Energy Star specification for storage systems, much like they’ve developed for servers.
Unlike the server specification, the EPA is focusing on power consumption by storage systems as they read and write data, vs. while they are idle. Big mistake. Storage is mostly about…well, storing. The biggest impact comes from the steady-state [...]