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- EMC joins SmartWay fold
- Storage tech giant has become part of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's SmartWay Transport Partnership. What this means, mainly, is that the company is putting a sharper focus on its distribution practices over the next three years. That means it will be looking at ways to improve its trucking operations,...
- Tags: Supply Chain, Emission, Carbon Dioxide, Supplier, EMC Corp., SmartWay Partner, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Channel Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-03-02
- Before you can get a grip, you have to get a grip. IBM aims to help.
- I'm starting to wonder how much extra storage devices will be needed to archive all the carbon emissions and other green-related data that companies are desperately trying to start tracking as a way of figuring out where to go from here! The latest addition to this admirable...
- Tags: Carbon Dioxide, IBM Corp., Supply Chain, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Purchasing & Procurement, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-01-23
- 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
- HP takes leadership stand on emissions reporting across supply chain
- Talk about full (well, almost-full) disclosure: As it promised in its 2007 Global Corporate Citizenship Report, tech giant Hewlett-Packard is reporting carbon emissions data not just for its own operations for those of its largest suppliers. The data represents about 80 percent of the company's "first-tier manufacturing expenditures." (Whatever...
- Tags: Supply Chain, Leadership, Hewlett-Packard Co., Carbon Dioxide, Supplier, Channel Management, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-09-26
- Retailer Saves 722 Tonnes of CO2 a Year Using Embedded Operating System
- The Co-operative Group has always taken a lead in responsible retailing. After the organisation deployed Windows XP Embedded - a highly flexible, customisable operating system - across its till systems in 2003, it looked for ways to use the software to further its ecological sustainability strategy. In 2008, its development...
- Tags: Network Configuration, Operating System, Carbon Dioxide, Windows XP Embedded, Co-operative Group, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Case studies 2008-05-01
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- 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
- 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
- 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
- World Wildlife Fund releases new reports on how virtual meetings can cut carbon dioxide AND increase productivity
- World Wildlife Fund releases new reports on how virtual meetings can cut carbon dioxide AND increase productivityVirtual Journalism Summit is a Great ExampleLast night I attended the 1st [b]Virtual Journalism Summit[/b], sponsored by The Edward R. Murrow College of Communication, in partnership with the McCormick Foundation. Co-speakers for this...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Second Life, virtual meeting, carbon dioxide
- Discussion threads 2009-04-07
- News to know: Sun-IBM; Cloudforce; Windows 7 downgrade; AP's crackdown
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Sun following the IBM deal collapse: Customer confusion en route The IBM-Sun saga: Can McNealy let...
- Tags: Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Associated Press, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sam Diaz, IBM Corp., Smart Phones, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Keyboards, Microsoft Windows, Handhelds, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Peripherals, Operating Systems
- Blog posts 2009-04-07
- IBM's latest green tech product for transportion
- Remember a few weeks back when I wrote that IBM was starting to look a whole lot more like a green tech company than an IT company? Well, its latest product and service in the sustainability space is a solution for reducing energy use across the transportion industry as the...
- Tags: Green Technology, Information Technology, Omron Corp., IBM Corp., Transportation, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-04-05
- Green tech calculators you can count on, literally
- For those seeking practical tools that can help them get a better handle on the energy and carbon dioxide emissions they're producing, I have not one but three different online calculator type tools to point to in this blog entry. They aren't exactly comparable, but serve different purposes that might...
- Tags: Rackspace, Green Technology, Carbon Dioxide, Blog Entry, Tool, Forrester Research Inc., Productivity, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-02-19
- 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
- 'World's Most Eco Friendly External Drive' released
- Released today and draped in bamboo and aluminum casing, Fabrik's SimpleTech [re]drive claims its title as "World's Most Eco Friendly External Drive." Why? Well, for starters, it's a low power hard drive with an energy star power adapter and lack of fan (the aluminum...
- Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Aluminum, Fabrik, Backups, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-07-28
- What paper trail?
- I’ve been carting around my latest sheaf of press releases about the green-ness of electronic document technology for weeks now. Yes, as I’ve blogged before, I am still one of those people who can’t help printing out certain emails in order to act on them. Yes, it's bad, I know....
- Tags: Xerox Corp., Paper Trail, Survey, Printers, Data Centers, Marketing Research, Hardware, Peripherals, Storage, Data Management, Marketing, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- N-Tier: Rube Goldberg meets Wintel Scalability
- N-Tier: Rube Goldberg meets Wintel ScalabilityStore procedures and serializationHow did stored procedures solve the serialization problem?If they did, it sounds like an accident due to programmers not understanding transactions and unknowingly switching from a very pessimistic locking strategy to an overly optimistic locking strategy.RE: N-Tier: Rube Goldberg meets Wintel ScalabilitySo,...
- Tags: Databases, N-Tier, tier, Wintel Scalability, Rube Goldberg, Wintel
- Discussion threads 2008-05-05
- Hitachi tests its own green IT theories with new data center project
- Hitachi Group is celebrating Earth Day with the groundbreaking of an expansion to its data center in Yokohama, Japan. The new wing boasts technology advances that are part of the massive technology company’s CoolCenter50 project. It also plays into the company’s corporatewide Harmonious Green Plan, which calls...
- Tags: Data Center, Theory, Hitachi Ltd., Green IT, Hitachi Group, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-04-17
- Wearing of the green: HP stakes claim in energy-efficiency services, software
- Hewlett-Packard must be thrilled with Forrester Research's report a couple of weeks ago, showing an enormous opportunity in assessment and design services around making technology infrastructure more energy-efficient and just generally greener. I'll send you to my blog for reference, but to excerpt the data: It estimates the typical assessment...
- Tags: Software, Data Center, Hewlett-Packard Co., Data Centers, Virtualization, Storage, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-03-17
- Verdiem gives you more power over your power consumption. And, inquiring minds wonder whether power management might not be Vista's holy grail?
- Did you know that PCs and computer monitors account for roughly 13 percent of the total electricity used each year by commercial enterprises? That statistic from the Department of Energy, which actually is pretty outdated at this point, is just one of the arguments used by power management software company...
- Tags: Power Management, Data Center, Holy Grail, Power Consumption, Microsoft Windows Vista, Verdiem, Electricity Consumption, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-01-27
- Turn off the lights! And the PCs, and printers, and the ...
- Here's a thought. If your office is shutting down for a four-day holiday weekend, you can bring a little extra cheer to your boss by remember to shut off all the equipment that will be sucking up power when you're not there. According to 1E, which makes...
- Tags: Printer, Power Management, PC, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2007-12-21
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