August 28, 2008
Uptime chief: Don't believe the PUE hype
Uptime's Kenneth Brill says some companies are misusing the popular metric as a "tool of marketing manipulation" more
TAGS: Green benchmarks, The Uptime Institute
August 28, 2008
California Academy of Sciences leverages IP to cut waste, costs
Switching over to various IP-based services is saving the academy more than a million dollars in redundant equipment and cabling more
TAGS: Networking
August 27, 2008
Telecommuting on the rise in U.S. and Canada
42 percent of American companies and 40 percent of Canadian say they let employees telework more
TAGS: Telecommuting
August 27, 2008
TrendPoint offers four-prong attack to greening your datacenter
Devising an energy budget and measuring datacenter efficiency among key strategies more
TAGS: TrendPoint
August 26, 2008
Intel launches $400K contest to tackle global needs
Chipmaker seeks entries that are sustainable, innovative -- and Intel-based more
TAGS: Intel
August 14, 2008
Fight rising fuel surcharges with e-signatures
Fidelity's adoption of e-sigs is a ringing endorsement of the technology's waste-reducing business benefits more
TAGS: E-signatures
August 11, 2008
FUD tarnishes the telecommuting experience
Despite research pointing to productivity and cost advantages for telecommuting, skepticism on both side remains that it's a good idea more
TAGS: Telecommuting
August 07, 2008
Greening by industry
Do you know what technology your industry needs to move toward sustainability? more
TAGS: Green technology
August 06, 2008
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As some of you may know, I send out a free Green Tech newsletter every Thursday. In it, I recap some of the top green-tech news of the week that you may have missed, plus inject some of my own thoughts on what's going on. To subscribe, head on over to this lovely subscription page, enter your e-mail address, opt in or out for other InfoWorld mailings, then click Subscribe. Voila, you're done! Also, if you have colleagues interested in sustainable technology trends for business, please pass the subscription info on to them.... more
TAGS: Green technology
August 05, 2008
ADC lands Platinum LEED pre-certification for new Sacramento facility
Sustainable techniques and technologies such as "free cooling" bring the facility's PUE down to just 1.1 more
TAGS: ADC (Advanced Data Centers), Datacenter development, Energy conservation, Environmental preservation, LEED
August 01, 2008
Coding green, revisited
I'm obviously not the first person to think about the concept of coding green. I say that because after writing about the topic this week, I found this article on earth2tech titled "Your bad code is killing my planet," written last year by Alistair Croll, vice president of product management and co-founder of Coradiant. In it, Croll takes the position that three modern advances in technology mean that bad code matter: 1. Virtualization - If you're scaling apps across hundreds of servers, you don't want bloated code, or it means you more of a load for your machines. That, in... more
TAGS: Application development
August 01, 2008
Bank of America to halve HVAC costs
Energy management system built on FDSI technology will reap big savings, reduce CO2 emissions by 14,000 tons per year more
TAGS: Power consumption
July 31, 2008
Coding green for the future
The burden of green doesn't just fall on hardware vendors; software developers need to crank out slimmer, more eco-friendly code more
TAGS: Application development
July 28, 2008
PG&E adds thin provisioning to energy-saving incentive program
Program grew from 3PAR's demonstration that combining storage virtualization and thin provisioning can save power more
TAGS: 3PAR, Green technology, PG&E, Power consumption, Storage, Storage virtualization, Thin provisioning
July 24, 2008
IT admins should also think green
Your list of IT duties may be long, but viewing that list through green-hued glasses can reap dividends for you and your organization more
TAGS: Green technology
July 23, 2008
Accenture primes tech tools for green consulting
Consultancy unveils new suite of tools to bolster its burgeoning green consulting services more
TAGS: Accenture, Accenture, Carbon emissions
July 17, 2008
Six tips for safely choosing an IT asset disposal partner
Picking the right company to help retire your IT gear could not only save you some cash and headaches, it could protect you from a regulatory nightmare more
TAGS: Dell, HP, IBM, ITAD (IT asset disposal), Intechra, Redemtech
July 10, 2008
Make the perfect laptop greener
InfoWorld's proposed WorldBooks could set a higher standard for green computing I've got to hand it to InfoWorld Chief Technologist Tom Yager: He's come up with very slick, innovative designs for two laptops, the InfoWorld WorldBook Ether and Meteor. He says the machines could theoretically be built and shipped within the year -- if hardware vendors had the gumption to do so. To his credit, Tom did include some green features in his dream laptops. For example, they're Energy Star 4.0-compliant; they've got mercury-free LED backlights and arsenic-free glass, and the displays employ GreenZone technology which "dramatically reduces power by... more
TAGS: Notebooks
July 10, 2008
Savor the fruit of others' green IT success
Organizations are contributing to the greater good by making their datacenter best practices transparent Whether for the sake of helping tackle the datacenter power crisis, chipping in to fight global warming, winning over new customers, or racking up bragging rights, recently companies have been readily opening their datacenters in recent months (at least figuratively) and giving the world -- including would-be competitors -- a peek at their special techniques for reaping greater energy efficiency. Whatever the motivation, the practice is bound to be of use to organizations confounded by high energy bills, limited power for their datacenters, and perhaps directives... more
TAGS: Cooling, Datacenter development, Energy conservation, Green technology, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Power consumption, Power supplies, Server virtualization, Silicon Valley Leadership Group (SVLG), Sustainable IT, Symantec, Virtualization, Yahoo
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