 - The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive is legislation that, in conjujction with RoHS, mandates targets for the collection, recovery and recycling of electronics and component materials. The WEEE Directive passed in the European Community (EC) in February 2003. One stipulation of the Directive is that manufacturers are responsible for the disposal of their products and must deal with their disposal in an environmentally-responsible manner. The Directive also says that the consumer of the goods should be able, at a minimum, to return them, free of charge, to the manufacturer for disposal.
To publicize the WEEE Directive, the Royal Society of Arts erected a 7-metre tall sculpture called 'WEEE Man' on the South Bank. WEEE man was constructed from 3.3 tonnes of electrical goods, which is the amount of electrical waste the average UK citizen is responsible over the life span.
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Learn more about NAS hardware |
| Network-attached storage (NAS) features and product guide: This product guide takes enterprise data storage professionals through the NAS features offered by some vendors, including scalability, tiered storage and multiprotocol access. |
| Podcast: The basics of network-attached storage (NAS): Simon Johnson, data recovery practice lead at GlassHouse Technologies (UK), discusses the basics of network-attached storage (NAS), clustered NAS and NAS gateways to scale systems. |
| Brocade-driven SAN data migration helps Council dodge WEEE: The WEEE directive hindered Surrey Council from adding SAN capacity. Brocade's Data Migration Manager helped it re-use IBM kit and avoid time-consuming LAN-based copy methods. |
| Storage managers seek advanced network-attached storage (NAS) features: NAS device sales in the UK are rising as users are motivated by features such as replication, snapshots, Fibre Channel and iSCSI access. |
| Green storage explained: Achieving energy efficient storage requires a well-thought out blend of products, and practices – held together by the right architecture |
| Data centers deal with e-waste: Data center managers must find a way to dump leftover electronic waste or e-waste, and many are turning to third-party waste management firms to do the dirty work for them. |
| National e-waste legislation to keep hardware costs lower: A congressional group studying e-waste could recommend national legislation that vendors say would cost data center managers little to nothing compared to state and local laws. |
| Green storage debate dominates U.K. show: IT managers in the U.K. are faced with reducing IT energy consumption in light of exploding data storage growth. |
| VDI: How to deliver environmentally sustainable IT: Combining VDI and UC can drive down power consumption, introduce remote working and therefore reduce carbon footprint, according to this expert. |
| NFS Version 4.1 update: pNFS spec approved: NFS Version 4.1 includes parallel NFS (pNFS) and the new specification has the vendor community working toward a stable client to prepare for pNFS products |
| NFS alternative meets Los Alamos National Laboratory's high-performance computing needs: Los Alamos Labs uses an alternative to NFS to fulfill its storage and high-performance computing needs while it tests the new parallel NFS (pNFS) specification. |
| pNFS and NFSv4.1 adoption still on hold with most storage array vendors: Though it is likely pNFS technology will show up in storage arrays before 2010, benefits of the technology will include management, performance and scalability improvements. |
| NAS appliance purchasing tips: A network-attached storage guide: Learn everything you need to know about buying a NAS appliance, NAS vendors and what to look for in a NAS product. |
| Network attached storage (NAS) basics: Network storage traditionally resided in individual servers. But servers hold a limited number of disks and network traffic to the server could easily form a bottleneck. Enter NAS. |
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