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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

Rural energy grant deadline approaches: Aids renewable energy technology investments

I'm not sure how many farmers and ranchers read these posts, but certainly I can claim some rural business owners among my readers. So, if you are in a rural area of the United States AND you are a small business with fewer than 15 employees, you have until July...

Tags: Turbine, Renewable Energy, Telecom & Utilities, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-07-03

Green IT tips for small businesses: Analysys moves data center offsite for big power savings

Many of us who write about green technology issues often get dinged for focusing just on case studies that involve BIG companies. So, here's some information about a much more modestly sized company in Baltimore that was able to get greener AND save a bunch of money on its power...

Tags: Analysys, Data Center, Green IT, Small Business, Data Centers, Servers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-07-03

Judge's idea to outlaw links won't save newspapers

Judge's idea to outlaw links won't save newspapersPerhaps a kindle like device?Get rid of paper, and sell a yearly subscription with a Kindle like reader. The yearly subscription would help offset the hardware costs.Get rid of the paper, or charge extra for it like cellular companies do for optionsTo...

Tags: news industry

Discussion threads 2009-07-02

EPA, Climate Savers to host power management tips seminar

If you've got a little time on July 21, green IT organization Climate Savers Computing Initiative and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency are teaming up to host a Webinar entitled "Briefing on IT Power Management for Utility Energy-Efficiency Program." The content will include an overview of the impact that controlling...

Tags: Power Management, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Sales Force Management, Benefits, Sales, Human Resources, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-07-01

Nuclear power has political meltdowns

Nuclear power has political meltdownsNo surprises.It was a government run entity. Of course it was overrunning costs. That's what government entities do.Nuclear waste is way less toxic than your current nemesis: coal ash heaps. It's just that people have been successfully indoctrinated to think that nuclear radiation is the most...

Tags: Nuclear Waste, nuclear energy, political meltdown, reactor, meltdown, government, nuclear waste

Discussion threads 2009-07-01

Political gaming around the Waxman-Markey bill

Nearly every energy and greentech and auto and battery and utility company in America has a stake in the proposed Waxman-Markey bill. So does every taxpayer and the future of any potential agreement with China on global warming could hang in the balance, and...the list of possible effects of...

Tags: Game, Bill, Dems, Regulations, Government, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-06-30

Carbon Wars in the U.S. Senate

Carbon Wars in the U.S. SenateWhy is this on ZDNet?I mean, don't you guys have your own websites to post this BS?RE: Carbon Wars in the U.S. SenateThe Cap and SCAM system is the biggest load of horse manure I have ever witnessed. I can't even believe people were...

Tags: Construction, Personal finance, window, U.S. Senate, tax credit, tax

Discussion threads 2009-06-27

Waxman-Markey bill set for vote in U.S. House

Waxman-Markey bill set for vote in U.S. HouseCap & Trade is corrupted from the get-goWithin a dozen years we'll revisit the whole concept and maybe do it right.Or...Try to work the unworkable until the die-off kicks in.RE: Waxman-Markey bill set for vote in U.S. HouseI'm sure the White House support...

Tags: Waxman-Markey, U.S. House, carbon dioxide, global warming

Discussion threads 2009-06-25

What do Green IT, the economic crisis, and best selling author, Thomas Friedman, have in common? Poor accounting

Consider the following questions posed by Thomas Friedman, New York Times columnist and author of The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century, and more recently, Hot, Flat And Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution - And How it Can Renew America: “Was it an...

Tags: Accounting, Friedman's Inc., Financial, PC, Information Technology, Environment, Green IT, Economic Crisis, Printing, Strategy, Management, Doug Washburn

Blog posts 2009-06-25

CODA and Corefino ink cloud accounting partnership

CODA, which has developed an on-demand financial application built on the Force.com platform has inked a partnership deal with Corefino, the Sunnyvale CA. based accounting outsourcer. Dubbed Corefino2go, the service sees CODA providing the technology requirements for Corefino's people, place and platform offering. Karen Watts, Corefino's CEO...

Tags: Business Process, Accounting, Partnership, Financial, CFO, Corefino, CODA, Business Structures, Operational Planning, Financial Accounting, Finance, Business Operations, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-06-25