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Principles and Practices of Enterprise IT Efficiency
Taking into account all of the opportunities for increasing IT energy efficiency, how can an organization best approach the challenge of making its IT operations more sustainable? Here are the key principles for a successful transition to operating IT as a utility:
SunGard’s Climate Corps Fellow Takes a Fresh Approach
By Jacob Shirmer There’s nothing quite like summer in New York City. But I must admit the mugginess of a 95-degree day makes me thankful SunGard’s office in midtown Manhattan doesn’t skimp on air conditioning. As SunGard’s third EDF Climate Corps fellow, I am conscious of the energy this cooling action demands . Fortunately, I’m [...]
A Vision of the Future for IT Efficiency
Although energy efficiency is important, it doesn’t pay if it significantly reduces productivity, performance, and reliability. Some important systems are underutilized by design. For example, no one would seriously suggest sharing fire trucks among airports many miles apart to increase their utilization.
Expanding the Availability of Sustainability Data
We know a lot about the sustainability performance of about 5,000 large companies. We know something about the sustainability performance of another 16,000 smaller companies and organizations. But, our world economy includes millions of economic entities. How can we get data on their social and sustainability performance?
How Green is Your Data?
If you printed out a gigabyte of data that would equate to 50,000 pages of printed single space text. Now imagine 34 x 50,000 pages of paper and that’s a lot of data. The average iphone user consumes 273 megabytes of data on their phone every day.
Microsoft: Our Goal is to Eliminate the Datacenter
At a tasty, vegetarian (and gratis) press dinner last week, Christian Belady, General Manager for Data Center Research at Microsoft got all the attendees to pay attention when he uttered these words: “Our goal is to eliminate the data center.” He was exaggerating for effect, and it worked. He went on to explain: “in any [...]
Microsoft, The CDP and the Green IT Data Game
by Linda Chang The days of the Apple rivalry are long gone, but when most people think of Microsoft, they still think Windows and Office. Microsoft, however, is becoming less of a personal computing software company and more of a business and networking solutions platform provider and developer. This was the picture communicated to the [...]
Yahoo Scores a Coop with Green Data Center Opening
This week Yahoo opened its data center in Lockport, NY. Titled the Yahoo Computing Coop, or (YCC), the facility is similar in design to other buildings in western New York. Dubbed the Yahoo Chicken Coop, the data center actually resembles a chicken coop—it’s a series of long buildings with angled roofs that allows for maximizing use of the winds that come from nearby Lake Ontario.
Iceland: Home to Volcanoes and World’s First Carbon Neutral Wholesale Data Center
Thanks to recent eruptions beneath the Eyjafjallajokull glacier, we’re all now well aware that Iceland has volcanoes. And, of course, we also know that volcanoes are storehouses of enormous geothermal energy. Doesn’t it only follow, then, that Iceland would be an ideal location to locate energy-intensive enterprises that could take advantage of the country’s zero-emission [...]
Four Green Trends in Business in 2009
Greener World Media recently published its third annual State of Green Business Report. The document examines numerous indicators and data to determine trends in the green business arena. Four of these green trends are: Radical transparency goes mainstream: The information age and the environmental movement have actually collided. Tons of information is available about products, [...]
Intuit Green Snapshot: Helping Small Businesses Go Green
By Deborah Fleischer, Green Impact “Save money by going greener,” is the tag line for Intuit’s Green Snapshot, a new free tool to help small businesses go green. The tool is simple, easy and free. The catch–you need to have your financial data in QuickBooks. Based on that data, Green Snapshot quickly and easily estimates [...]
New Study Reveals Green IT Budgets are Rising
Symantec Study Shows Green IT is Now Considered an Essential Practice Green IT budgets are rising and most IT executives say they willing to pay more up-front for energy efficient solutions, according to a research study sponsored by Symantec Corporation. The 2009 Worldwide Green IT Report was released yesterday as a follow up to the [...]
Who Is the Greenest Web Host?
If you’re looking for a green web host, there’s a large and expanding number of companies out there offering it. Trouble is, for the most part they do nothing different than their conventional counterparts, save buying RECs to offset their energy use. Server farms are a major user of energy, and to eliminate that all [...]
Sentilla’s Energy Manager: If You Can’t Measure IT, You Can’t Manage IT
All of the major server and microprocessor manufacturers are now offering more efficient systems that draw less electricity and/or generate less heat. (Cooling accounts for about half of an IT centers overall energy usage.) Along with more efficient hardware, IT managers can now choose from a growing number of energy management systems. A recent entrant [...]
Green Energy And IT? A Match Made In Heaven!
IT giant HP is the latest in a spate of companies that are announcing green initiatives for their operation plants.
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Webinar: Feb 29Product Scorecards for Sustainability: Product scorecards that detail and evaluate environmental and sustainability aspects of products are increasingly adopted by leading companies. This webinar covers the best practices in this area and a case study by Seventh Generation.
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