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- Fire and Rescue Team Cuts Electricity Costs by 77 Per Cent With Virtualised Servers
- The IT team at Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service wanted to ensure continued compliance with the United Kingdom (U.K.) government's Civil Contingencies Act and roll out a new disaster recovery data centre. By deploying the Windows Server 2008 R2 operating system and Hyper-V virtualisation technology, the team has not only...
- Tags: Team, Carbon Dioxide, Server, Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V, Team Management, Cloud Computing, Disaster Recovery, Storage Management, Virtualization, Utility Computing, Management, Data Management, Storage, Hardware
- Case studies 2009-10-01
- International Airlines to UN: Set us a CO2 Target Now (but US carriers still ponder)
- People in business often speak of NGO's in a kind of wide eyed way, a mixture of fear and curiosity, but most vastly under estimate their capability. Granted, NGOs are as diverse as businesses - some are hopeless, some perform magnificently. For illustration of the latter & the potency of a sophisticated and intelligent NGO, then look no...
- Tags: Aviation, Carbon, Carbon Dioxide, Carrier, Climate Group, Emission, James Farrar, Management, Nancy, Strategy
- Blog posts 2009-04-09
- World leaders in CO2 now talk climate change
- Today you can read headlines that would have been unthinkable four months ago. American and chinese political leaders discuss what their nations can do about climate change. The new U.S. Secretary of State has invited China to join her country in working against global warming. China and...
- Tags: China, Carbon Dioxide, Leader, Leadership, Management, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-02-21
- Industrial Gases Desktop 2008 1.1 (Windows)
- Industrial Gases Desktop is a new software reference tool that provides industrial gas users, producers and resellers with highly valuable information, while saving time and money. Industrial Gases Desktop software resource conveniently delivers the key industrial gas facts, figures and calculation tools that industry professionals frequently need at their fingertips...
- Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Desktop, Management, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Veritech Software
- Software downloads 2008-10-22
- Making a fantasy team sport out of going green
- Your vow today to go green can't really be a New Year's resolution. And since Lent will be over on Sunday, it can't really serve that obligation. So, since it's March, let me put this blog in terms that most of the basketball-hungry population will understand. CarbonRally does for inspiring...
- Tags: Team, Carbon Dioxide, Team Management, Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-03-19
- Seven Design Considerations for a Green Data Centre
- IT departments are under increasing scrutiny and pressure to deliver environmentally-sound solutions. Large data centres are one of the most significant energy consumers in an organisation's IT infrastructure, so any measures that one can take to reduce this consumption and therefore also carbon dioxide emissions will have a positive impact...
- Tags: Information Technology, Carbon Dioxide, Dimension Data, IT Department, Data Centre, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2007-12-10
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- Five Helpful Green Printing Tips
- Taking the Green Route to Printing EfficiencyIt is, of course, important that organisations choose the most environmentally efficient route for their commercial printing. Dependent on the size of the job, there are always occasions when it makes sense to outsource printing. If a company needs 1,000 sets of a 30-page...
- Tags: Document management, printing
- Discussion threads 2009-11-25
- What does it mean to be a green IT professional? The definition is definitely a moving target.
- Wondering if you have what it takes to be considered a "Green IT" professional? Cisco has taken a stab at defining what sort of skills you might need to adapt your role as businesses look to information technology to help slash carbon dioxide emissions, energy costs and so on. ...
- Tags: Network, Information Technology, Carbon Dioxide, Green IT, Cisco Systems Inc., Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-09-01
- Carbon calculator as value-added service: Consider the case of Sabre
- Many businesses are using carbon footprint calculators to track the environmental impact of some or all of their operations, notably travel. But what exactly can a company do with this sort of data? Travel management and services company Sabre, which is using sophisticated calculators developed using datawarehousing...
- Tags: Sabre Holdings, Carbon, Product Marketing, Marketing Research, Marketing, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-08-31
- Carbonetworks releases new app for managing emissions info, sustainability planning
- If your company would like to take control of its greenhouse gas emissions information and other data related to energy usage and sustainability initiatives, Carbonetworks has flipped the switch on what it is calling a Performance Management Platform for this information. The application is offered as a service, so you...
- Tags: Sustainability, Greenhouse Gas, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-08-24
- Fortune Data Centers uses energy efficiency metrics as competitive differentiation
- Fortune Data Centers, which opened a new "green" data center in San Jose, Calif., back in April 2009, is wooing prospective tenants with its high efficiency claims -- power usage effectiveness PUE measures of 1.37 at full load -- and its likely certification as the first operational data center in...
- Tags: Energy Efficiency, Data Center, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-08-07
- Three real examples of intelligent building networks in action
- It frightens me somewhat that I first covered Echelon more than 15 years ago, when I used to write about the early convergence of computer networks and facilities networks. Flash forward, and the company offers some of the best practical case studies about how intelligent control networks...
- Tags: Energy Efficiency, Network, Monitoring System, Echelon, LonWorks, Networking, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-08-04
- Olive drab isn't the only green the Army cares about
- Want to know what the U.S. Army uses to manage its greenhouse gas emissions? The agency just extended its deployment of software from Enviance, which develops a greenhouse gas reporting and management system. After a pilot in Colorado's Fort Carson, the application is being rolled out at...
- Tags: Greenhouse Gas, Enviance System, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-07-21
- Energy Saving Trust Grows Web Site Use by 50% and Speeds Content Updates by 100%
- Energy Saving Trust is a non-profit organization funded by government and industry. It provides free, impartial advice on saving energy, conserving water, and reducing waste to help reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the United Kingdom. It needed to increase Web site use from a base of 200,000 visits a month...
- Tags: Web, Oracle Corp., Carbon Dioxide, Web Site, Web Technology, Web Site Development, Channel Management, Content Management, Internet, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies 2009-07-01
- Sim your sustainability system: Software grapples with environmental uncertainties
- Need to figure out the implications of how to allocate limited environmental resources on a company or a community? GoldSim, a software development firm that got its start in modeling waste management scenarios, is working with a number of environmental agencies and well-known corporations to help apply...
- Tags: Software, Sustainability, GoldSim, Tools & Techniques, Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-06-26
- How are you prioritizing Green IT investments?
- IT leadership understands the financial benefits of Green IT, which is why the top motivator for greener IT operations is financial. But the rolodex of Green IT projects available is seemingly endless. The data center itself is ripe with so much low-hanging fruit, that it’s not surprising organizations...
- Tags: Information Technology, Investment, Green IT, IT Leadership, Doug Washburn
- Blog posts 2009-03-04
- It's green report card season: Proclamations from IBM, SAP, Toshiba and Xerox
- Some scintillating corporate sustainability reading for your perusal today, folks. In all seriousness, the last few weeks have seen several of the biggest of the big high-tech vendors publish their latest environmental reports or corporate responsibility statements. Here’s a list of some of the most recent, along with a brief...
- Tags: Sustainability, Xerox Corp., Card, Corporate Responsibility, Greenhouse Gas, SAP AG, Toshiba Corp., IBM Corp., Business Ethics, Leadership, Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-11-20
- Dell data dump: More energy ammo for the procurement checklist
- Two Dell-related green tech proclamations this week: First, the company has done one of those fun green math exercises and is calculating that its customers have saved an estimated $3 billion in energy costs and 29 million tons in carbon dioxide emissions by using OptiPlex desktop systems since 2005. Whether...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Dell Optiplex, Procurement, Desktops, Hardware, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC): A Guide for the CIO
- This is an early paper to Carbon Reduction Commitment CRC based on a government consultation report and, whilst it is unlikely that the high level structure will change, there could be alterations to specific details. For many CIOs this will be the first time they have had a direct pressure...
- Tags: CIO, Fujitsu Ltd.
- White papers 2008-10-13
- C-Lock Technology Streamlines Greenhouse Gas Emission Monitoring Processes to Help Save the Planet Using an SOA Solution From IBM and EIM
- C-Lock Technology, a wholly owned subsidiary of Evergreen Energy, Inc., is headquartered in Rapid City, South Dakota. C-Lock Technology was established in March 2007 in response to the growing need for a standard, efficient method for organizations to monitor carbon dioxide and other GreenHouse Gas GHG emissions, an increasingly critical...
- Tags: Greenhouse Gas Emission, Greenhouse Gas, SOA, IBM Corp., C-Lock Technology, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies 2008-10-01
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