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Manage Power Across your Company with Cisco EnergyWise

In response to energy costs, environmental concerns, and government directives, there is an increased need for sustainable and "green" business IT operations. Methods to measure power consumption and control energy output are now the focus of businesses worldwide, with all customers looking for a method to reduce energy costs and...

Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., Energy Cost

White papers 2009-01-01

Addressing Soaring IT Energy Costs: The Green Data Center

One may not realize it yet, but right now there's probably an energy crisis going on in the data center. It's true. Since 1996 the cost for powering, cooling and managing data centers has more than doubled and some analysts predict that data center energy costs could double again in...

Tags: Data Center, Information Technology, Energy Cost, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management

Webcasts 2009-01-01

Don't insulate, Nansulate, says Florida cleantech company

Thermal testing. Courtesy Industrial Nanotech. Energy costs are now serious business for industries, office managers, and home owners across the world. Buildings account for over half of the energy use in the U.S. and a fair portion of that is for heating and...

Tags: Insulation, Clean Technology, European Union, Nansulate, Energy Cost, Nanotechnology, Emerging Technologies, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-05-08

Reducing IT Energy Costs: The Mid-size & Small Business Approach

As total costs of small and mid-sized businesses increase, growing companies look ever closely at how their IT needs affect energy costs. The IBM case studies and survey results herein discuss opportunities to reduce IT energy costs, save money and devise IT investment strategies. Read them and learn how you...

Tags: Information Technology, IBM Corp., Energy Cost, Strategy, Management

White papers 2008-01-01

Smart meters to cut energy costs

Smart meters to cut energy costsSmart?Please don't call them smart meters. There is nothing smart in multiplying the kW used by a factor.The thing is that they start calling them smart meters and they'll start charging us more for pretty much nothing.RE: Smart meters to cut energy costsPlease! Time-of-day-use metering...

Tags: Public relations, Smart Meter, energy cost

Discussion threads 2007-10-05

IT giants hope to save $5.5 billion in energy costs

IT giants hope to save $5.5 billion in energy costsblah, blah, blahYet again people making decisions base on hysteria and the asinine position that the current global climate is the absolute best possible climate in the history of the universe.Catch 22 ?«Meanwhile, tech vendors would just love another hardware replacement...

Tags: energy cost, information technology

Discussion threads 2007-06-12

Sponsored whiteboard - LCDs cut energy costs

LCDs cut energy costsLCDs cut energy costsLCDs liquid crystal displays are more cool-looking than traditional CRTs cathode ray tubes, but they cost twice the price. However, when you add energy costs into your TCO calculation, the difference in cost shrinks significantly.

Tags: Monitors & displays, LCD, energy cost

Sponsored whiteboards 2007-04-26

Five Strategies for Cutting Data Center Energy Costs Through Enhanced Cooling Efficiency

As electricity prices and IT power consumption continue to rise, IT-related energy costs are getting increased scrutiny. Cooling accounts for approximately 37 percent of electricity usage within a well-designed data center and, in many cases, represents a significant opportunity to reduce IT energy costs. This paper presents five strategies for...

Tags: Data Center, Energy Cost, Data Centers, Storage, Strategy, Hardware, Data Management, Management

White papers 2007-04-17

Digital Learning Center

LCDs cut energy costsLCDs liquid crystal displays are more cool-looking than traditional CRTs cathode ray tubes, but they cost twice the price. However, when you add energy costs into your TCO calculation, the difference in cost shrinks significantly.

Tags: Monitors & displays, LCD, energy cost

Whiteboards 2005-09-15

LCD's cut energy costs

LCDs liquid crystal displays are more cool-looking than traditional CRTs cathode ray tubes, but they cost twice the price. However, when you add energy costs into your TCO calculation, the difference in cost shrinks significantly.

Tags: LCD, CRT, Hardware, Components, Roi/Tco, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Best Practices, Monitors & displays, energy cost

Whiteboards 2005-09-15

Additional Resources

Dell Inspiron i545s-1476N

The $480 Inspiron 545s-1476 is the third Dell desktop we've reviewed with the company's current slim tower chassis, and we can't say our opinion has changed since the last time we saw it. We're still satisfied with its design, but we remain disappointed with the features Dell seems to have...

Tags: Notebooks, DVD, Consumer electronics, Dell Inspiron, Dell Computer Corp., dual-layer DVD burner, DVD burner, Gateway Inc.

Product reviews 2009-11-06

10 ways to evaluate your IT management software

Does your helpdesk work for you or do you work for your helpdesk? Saar Bitner of SysAid Technologies tells how to manage you IT management software. Commentary - Choosing the right IT management software solution is a strategic decision that requires the careful planning and consideration of every IT...

Tags: IT Administration, Information Technology, Software Solution, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Management, IT management, software, Saar Bitner SysAid Technologies, Special to ZDNet, Saar Bitner SysAid Technologies, Special to ZDNet

News items 2009-11-05

Deck the halls with LED

Sounds OKSounds like a reasonable idea although the cost of LED lights is quite high ($30?).lehnerus2000$30 for LED lights?We buy sets here for $15... and considering that the power consumption is so much lower that they quite literally pay for themselves in the savings on my electric bill, they're worth...

Tags: Engineering, light-emitting diode

Discussion threads 2009-11-03

Make room for another e-reader as Creative shows off prototype

Market is ripeFor Chinese factories to crank out more hardware and suck more dollars out of the middle class.Clue in America.Transition product I do believe that e-book readers are largely a transition product which will eventually be made more or less obsolete by advances in netbook/smartbook etc. technologies. Multiple devices...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, E-books, e-reader, health care

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

In recession, VoIP makes strong case for cutting your home landline

Tempting, but I will passI've considered VoIP several times over the years, but it usually just takes a few phone calls with a friend or relative who is using VoIP before I change my mind! Not infrequently, the conversation becomes a warbling mess. Then there are times we...

Tags: Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, VoIP, phone, recession

Discussion threads 2009-10-30

Hearings on climate, cap'n'trade, energy

well dont expect any change economy will always prevail the rest ....Maybe one day when it will be too late to turn around ... people will understand once again too late.. They will have a vibrant economy and a dead sentence quite ironic.. Im full of...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Personal finance, Businesses, tax, IT IS

Discussion threads 2009-10-28

Smart grid grants

Over $3 billion dollars worth of federal money will be awarded to smart grid projects in the U.S. today. President Obama has chosen a Florida solar power plant as the location for making his announcement. He'll be in Arcadia, Florida, at Florida Power and Light Co.’s...

Tags: Grant, Monitors & Displays, Wi-Fi, Hardware, Components, Wireless And Mobility, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-27

Copenhagen countdown

"climate debt" is BS. It's wealth transfer.From countries that work, to countries that don't work.And Harry. This is a TECH SITE. Go somewhere else with your anxious alarmist nonsense.AMEN!THIS IS A TECH SITE!Well, I think going to Copenhagen is too political and he should skip it.Better to do some behind...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, sea surface temperature, wealth transfer, tax

Discussion threads 2009-10-25

EPA creates new resource for green-tech home retrofits

Somehow in the scheme of personal economic priorities, retrofitting your home with a "smart" new set of energy-efficient appliances or heating, ventilation and air-conditioning systems probably isn't at the top of your list. While intellectually those retrofits might help save you up to 30 percent off your...

Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Quality, Business Operations, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-10-22

Brickbats over bricks

Some more input from CalStar on their pending entry into the building materials market. I had asked about who set the standards for what is a "brick." The answer from CalStar: "ASTM is not the gatekeeper for new products - national and local building codes are....

Tags: Brick, Standards, CalStar, ASTM, Ash Brick, Quality, Business Operations, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-21