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A barrage of hot air, followed by a real debate. IBM’s ‘Start’ summit seems to be a microcosm of green technology, says Peter Judge

Greenpeace’s campaign unfairly targets Facebook’s very efficient data centre. But, Peter Judge asks, is changing behaviour about fairness?

The PUE efficiency measure is barely three years old but may be obsolete, says Andrew Donoghue - but it’s the best green data centre metric we have for now

Intel is buying software security firm McAfee for $7.9 billion. It’s now time to bake security into the hardware rather than layer it on, says Eric Lundquist

It’s not perpetual motion, but the idea of generating electricity from server heat is a very wasteful way to save energy, says Peter Judge

As embedded security become the norm, vendors talk about it less and less, but embedded security shouldn’t be assumed security, says Larry Walsh

Cisco’s debut of its FabricPath Switching System for the Nexus 7000 platform shows that Spanning Tree Protocol is on the way out, says Cameron Sturdevant

Microsoft might be trying to become more like Apple, or maybe it just wants more influence over its manufacturing partners, says Nicholas Kolakowski

Modular data centres can be delivered quickly by road just like container DCs says Akber Jaffer. But unlike their temporary counterparts, can last ten years or more and scale to hundreds of metres

Despite the government’s grand visions, green tech will be deployed tactically not strategically, as the recovery kicks in, says Andrew Donoghue