Cisco Systems on Tuesday announced the Cisco Network Building Mediator Manager 6300, a platform to manage all the systems in an enterprise that consume energy, across all the organization's facilities.

Cisco Systems took another step into the consumer market today by announcing a Home Energy Controller device that homeowners could buy from local utilities to help with energy conservation.

Despite virtualization, power saving hardware and other green-friendly IT tech, data centers are consuming more power than ever

There's more to energy efficiency than green IT. If you want to cut corporate energy costs, you have to look beyond the datacenter and the desktop.

Cisco Systems earned the top spot on the new Greenpeace "Cool IT" leadership list, while some of Japan's biggest electronics vendors -- Toshiba, Sharp, Sony and Panasonic -- finished last.

By Reuven Cohen
Telling you that many in the technology industry have recently been engaged in what has been described as "Cloud Washing" -- or the attempt to ride a surge in interest found in anything relating to Cloud Computing (or with a cloud logo) may not come as a surprise. Adding to the noise is everyone's favorite environmental watch dog Greenpeace with a new report released earlier today titled "Make IT Green - Cloud Computing and its Contribution to Climate Change".

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Carbon and sustainability data disclosed by companies in the FTSE 350 lack credibility, a new study claims.

Viridity Software launched their software this week – a package for use by customers to manage power availability and to visualize hidden power, cooling and space capacity.

Cisco's new CRS-3 core router, which the company has boasted will "forever change the Internet," will come with 100Gbps Ethernet interfaces and 322Tbps multichassis interconnect capability at first customer shipment.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is wrapping up work on an Energy Star program for data centers that it hopes to launch in June, EPA officials said this week.