Jul 31

Written by: George Ou
7/31/2008 11:26 PM

If I was still blogging at ZDNet, I'd file this under my old Energy Efficiency category.  It's been nearly a year ago since I covered the Green Grid at Linux World and I know the folks who head up that consortium pretty well and it's definitely a worthwhile cause.  I recall raising the concern that many IT departments don't really pay energy costs and it doesn't factor in to their department's bottom line so it's good to see that they're championing the concept of some sort of corporate Energy Czar.

It's obvious when energy is being wasted, it goes beyond the IT budget and affects the company's bottom line not to mention the environmental impact.  I'll also have to give myself a shameless plug to my print article going up for FedTech Magazine middle of August on "Power Management: Beyond the hype".  Sorry, no linky here since it's on this ancient thing that old folks called "paper" (just kidding, I like paper, really, I do!)

Anyhow, what's more good news is that large telecoms like AT&T are joining the Green Grid and they're bringing us energy efficient IPTV Set-Top Boxes.  The more corporations that join Green Grid, the better.  Aside from the energy savings, I don't know anyone who likes a hot and noisy Set-Top Boxes

Hey that reminds me, I'm in the process of building a sub 30 watt server terabyte gigabit NAS with wire speed performance, and no you didn't read that wrong.  I know I haven't put up any interesting PC projects lately but bear with me, I've been busy with the new job.

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