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- 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
- 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
- Green IT video case studies to watch at your leisure
- The folks at Think Ecological, which is a public awareness initiative for green IT backed by the likes of SGI, Intel, the BPM Forum and the Green Renewable Energy and Environmental Network, has thrown together some video case studies with six organizations who were willing to share some of their...
- Tags: Green IT, Video, Best Practice, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-06-17
- Compare and contrast: Green IT budget metrics
- I wrote about one of the findings from Symantec's annual Green IT study about a week ago, when I explored its revelation that respondents felt that software as a service is a relevant Green IT strategy. Wanted to throw out a couple of additional data points, so that you can...
- Tags: Green IT, Survey, Marketing Research, Marketing, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-06-15
- Green IT perspective out of Ireland
- Not a ground-breaking story, but this article out of Ireland reveals some of the similarities and differences about the motivations for Green IT programs outside of North America. Hint: There's really not much difference. No matter where you are, you need to have a money-saving reason for your proposals. One...
- Tags: Ireland, Green IT, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-06-08
- How green is software as a service?
- I was briefed Friday by Symantec's Cecily Joseph, director of corporate responsibility, and one of the things we got to talking about was a survey the company conducted back in March to get some more visibility into Green IT priorities. The research, which was conducted by Applied Research, represents 1,052...
- Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, Green IT, Power Consumption, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Data Centers, Emerging Technologies, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-06-06
- IBM consultant publishes step-by-step guide for greening your IT
- Here's one for your summer beach reading list: "The Greening of IT," a new tome about "How Companies Can Make a Difference for the Environment," written by John Lamb, a senior technical staffer with IBM's Global Business Services division in Somers, N.Y. (If you visit this link, you'll get a...
- Tags: Information Technology, Green IT, ROI, IBM Corp., Roi/Tco, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-05-25
- Energy Company Promotes Environmental Responsibility, Lowers Costs With "Green IT"
- MidAmerican Energy Company is highly focused on environmental responsibility, including energy generation from renewable resources. The company also promotes this responsibility within IT, relying on Microsoft products and technologies to help reduce its energy usage and lower costs. With its "Green IT" strategies, the company has reduced power consumption, minimized...
- Tags: Green IT, Energy Company, Microsoft Corp., Responsibility
- Case studies 2009-05-25
- Down to business: Forrester reports more companies looking to IT services firms for help on green IT strategy
- Down to business: Forrester reports more companies looking to IT services firms for help on green IT strategyEach IT workerEvery IT worker is now equipped with a 'toot' catcher it will be permanently installed on your rear end so it catches any gas you pass.It makes the IT strategy successful...
- Tags: green IT strategy, Forrester Report, Green IT, IT services, Forrester Research Inc., information technology
- Discussion threads 2009-05-22
- Down to business: Forrester reports more companies looking to IT services firms for help on green IT strategy
- Most businesses are still going it alone when it comes to figuring out their green IT projects, but Forrester Research reports that an increasing number of companies are turning to a professional services provider for help. Many of the usual suspects in the enterprise IT services business are morphing in...
- Tags: Strategy, IT Services, Information Technology, Green IT, Forrester Research Inc., Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-05-22
- Your green IT project: Who should play a role?
- Your green IT project: Who should play a role?Brainwashing 101I think it was Communist Lenin, 'if you tell a lie long enough, it becomes the truth'....I may be wrong on the quotation but it is being told over and over same story so it will become true to people who...
- Tags: Green IT
- Discussion threads 2009-05-15
- Your green IT project: Who should play a role?
- I guess you could safely say we have entered the "Green IT 2.0" zone. Now that most people understand what you mean when you use that term in a sentence, a large majority of businesses have either adopted OR are about to adopt OR are considering Green...
- Tags: Green IT, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-05-15
- Is Green IT a passing fad? Deloitte CIO says NO
- Is Green IT a passing fad? Deloitte CIO says NOControlling peopleHow do you control what people eat, how they live, what they buy, whether or not they can drive and best of all tell the sheep the dire lies they tell so super Government can control everyone and everything.When they...
- Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Bobby Joe, Controlling, sheeple, Green IT, Deloitte LLP
- Discussion threads 2009-05-14
- Is Green IT a passing fad? Deloitte CIO says NO
- This is the last of my posts from notes I took during the Uptime Symposium last month. I've been stewing on this one the longest because the thoughts aren't from a high-tech vendor pushing green tech or from a person like me who just "believes," they are from a person...
- Tags: Deloitte LLP, Data Center, Green IT, Server, Data Centers, Printers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Peripherals, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-05-14
- Cashing the check on Green IT
- The goals of Green IT include minimizing the use of hazardous materials and being smarter with their disposal, maximizing energy efficiency, and encouraging recycling and/or use of biodegradable products — without negatively affecting productivity. In this TechRepublic Cover Story, we will discuss some reasons to implement Green...
- Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Green IT
- Download resources 2009-05-13
- Could remote access technology help your green IT agenda?
- Remote-access technology company Lantronix is brandishing a self-commissioned survey that gauges the green IT priorities of approximately 300 IT professionals. The data is illustrative of several surveys sitting in my in-box right now in that is dedicated to spinning some sort of green angle for virtually every...
- Tags: Information Technology, Green IT, Lantronix Inc., Survey, Remote Access, Telecommunications, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-05-05
- Block your calendars for some Microsoft Green IT tip sessions
- Got a few hours to kill in "learning mode"? Microsoft is getting set to run a series of Green IT education TechNet Web seminars starting May 1, 2009. The first event, "Transforming the Data Center with Energy" (scheduled for May 1 at 11 a.m. Pacific time) will...
- Tags: Information Technology, Green IT, Microsoft Corp., Pacific, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-04-30
- Where are you on the green tech belief scale?
- Here are some stats collected by market research firm IDC at its recent Green IT Forum.The survey base is inherently biased because I'm betting mostly environmentally minded people attend green conferences, but they are worth sharing nonetheless. 68 percent of attendees said "energy efficiency" was the think...
- Tags: Green Technology, Green IT, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-04-27
- Research: Thumbs-up for IT's attention to energy efficiency, thumbs-down for lifecycle management
- Don't mean to bring you down, but since more of you are likely to be reading about environmental issues today, it being Earth Day and all, I figured I would share some statistics from a new Sustainable Computing Assessment benchmark that has been created by Redemtech. The...
- Tags: Asset, Energy Efficiency, Lifecycle Management, Information Technology, Green IT, Redemtech, Asset Management, Patches, Strategy, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-04-22
- Common Sense About Green IT and Sustainability
- IT has always helped enterprises reduce costs through more efficient processes, but when efficiency is viewed through a sustainability lens, the results can be startling. UPS uses "package-flow" software to map out its most efficient delivery routes. From drastically limiting left-hand turns, which waste energy as drivers sit idle, UPS...
- Tags: Sustainability, Green IT
- White papers 2009-04-01

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