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- You won't hear this winery whine about going green. Some tips for SMBs looking for green tech ideas
- I've been trying out organic wines over the past few months because of my growing intolerance for sulfites, but I never really thought about what that meant until I watched one of the ZDNet Green Enterprise videos this weekend. In the case of Frog's Leap Winery,...
- Tags: Green Technology, Small And Medium Business, Smb/Sme, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-20
- The green tech edition of ‘what I did on my summer vacation'
- How would you like to spend your summer break doing some groundbreaking green technology research? IBM has hired a couple of hundred college students worldwide to lend their brains to projects across the company's 13 research labs, including several focused on solving problems related to making data...
- Tags: Green Technology, IBM Corp., Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- UPDATED: Learning how to use "green" and Microsoft in the same sentence
- NOTE: I've updated this post to include another link with tips on other Microsoft technologies that can contribute to your company's green credentials as well as the link for the Imagine Cup winners. It being the week of Microsoft's annual big-deal partner conference and all, I thought...
- Tags: Data Center, Green Technology, Microsoft Corp., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- Part 2: Green tech and corporate ethics
- Just following up my post from yesterday about a new consulting service from IBM designed to examine the ethical weight of green technology practices. There's another white paper on the Web site for business process management software vendor Metastorm about the impact that surprise rethinking the way...
- Tags: Business Process, Metastorm, Green Technology, Ethics, Operational Planning, Business Ethics, Business Process Automation, Business Operations, Leadership, Management, It Operations, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- IBM consulting service begs the question: If your company isn't green, where does it stand on ethics?
- IBM has come out and said it: The way a company treats environmental responsibility and green tech issues reflects on its corporate ethics. There, I've said it, too. The company's consulting division has even come out this week with the IBM Corporate Social Responsibility Benchmarking Service...
- Tags: Consulting Service, Green Technology, Ethics, IBM Corp., IBM Consulting Service, Corporate Social Responsibility, Business Ethics, Corporate Law, Leadership, Management, Business Operations, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-06-30
- Are more companies refusing to pay more for green IT?
- There used to be a perception, not so many months ago, that your company would have to spend more to green-ify its IT infrastructure. But the flagging economy is apparently dashing any hopes that high-tech vendors might secretly have harbored that they could get customers to spend more dollars for...
- Tags: Rackspace, Green Technology, Green IT, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-06-30
- Would a re-regulated oil market destroy green tech investment?
- Would a re-regulated oil market destroy green tech investment?How do you define a speculator?The problem is not the guys who buy and sell commodities on an ongoing basis, it is the investors who have discovered a new asset class called "natural resources" and who take, and hold long positions betting...
- Tags: Commodity Market, green technology, green tech investment
- Discussion threads 2008-06-24
- Would a re-regulated oil market destroy green tech investment?
- Today oil analysts told American political leaders that regulating oil speculation could easily cut half the price of crude oil, within thirty days. Wow! They even speculated that gasoline could drop back to $2 per gallon. Forget those hybrid cars and plug-in electrics, Martha, get me that...
- Tags: Green Technology, Investment, Analyst, Plug-in, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-06-23
- Sure, energy tech is sexy and could be profitable. But think real green, as in chlorophyll and growing plants. That's the most crucial green tech now.
- There's a lot of interest in alternative energy tech and ways to utilize fossil fuels more efficiently. There's considerable push now for more nuclear power. And all that makes economic and ecological sense: energy is at the base of the economic pyramid, less energy means less of everything for...
- Tags: Agriculture, Green Technology, Africa, Tech, Green Revolution, Leadership, Management, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-06-22
- IBM, Cisco, VMware talk up emerging green tech
- At the Business Goes Green conference in San Jose, Calif., on June 6, Forrester Research Senior Vice President Christopher Mines moderated a discussion on data centers and the green technologies that panel members believe will have the most significant impact in the future. The panel included: Elaine Lennox, IBM's vice...
- Tags: Data Center, Green Technology, VMware Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., IBM Corp., Data Centers, Storage, Product Marketing, Marketing Research, Hardware, Data Management, Marketing, Green
- Videos 2008-06-18
- Public vs. Private? Outspoken Congressman mulls government's investment role in green tech
- Public vs. Private? Outspoken Congressman mulls government's investment role in green techKucinch?No offense to anyone's political views, but Kucinch isn't exactly the person to carry the water for any cause. Kucinch is great to excite a certain political faction, but rarely gets anything accomplished that he sets out to...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Kucinch, green technology, government, investment role
- Discussion threads 2008-06-11
- Public vs. Private? Outspoken Congressman mulls government's investment role in green tech
- The kind souls at LimeLeap, a technology services company that has donned a green mantle as its new business mantra, have taken an item off my to-do list, which was to follow up on a green business roundtable that they hosted in Washington last month. As I...
- Tags: Green Technology, Government, Congressman, Entrepreneurship, Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-06-10
- Dell's Esser: Green tech is not just about the data center (P.S. It doesn't have to cost a lot more.)
- I spoke with Dell's green guru (aka Albert Esser, vice president of power and infrastructure) about two weeks ago, just before I disappeared on vacation. I hadn't gotten around to writing about that conversation yet, but today seems like a pretty good day to do so, what with the company...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Data Center, Green Technology, Power Supply, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-06-05
- Are you fatigued by green tech news?
- Are you fatigued by green tech news?"Green" is seen as a political platformAnd, as several of your regular readers constantly remind us, one that is seen by many people in a highly negative light. Power management, on the other hand, is seen as a way to save money, which...
- Tags: Food & Beverage, green tech new, manufacturing, green technology
- Discussion threads 2008-06-04
- Are you fatigued by green tech news?
- So, this is the time in the progression of green IT and green technology "industry" coverage where the general population starts blaming the media and marketers for excessive story-telling and one too many cute headlines. At least, that's what a new report out of IT reseller CDW implies. ...
- Tags: Green Technology, Green IT, CDW Corp., Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-06-04
- Forrester: More big companies starting to walk their green tech talk
- Have a whole slew of green IT data for you this week, as I clean out my e-mail after a week of R&R down in Cozumel, Mexico. First up is a Forrester report that actually I picked up before I left ("More Green Progress in Enterprise IT") but didn't have...
- Tags: Green Technology, Information Technology, Green IT, Forrester Research Inc., Strategy, Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-06-02
- What's in a name? For LimeLeap, apparently, a whole lot
- Someone asked me the other day if I thought IT solution providers (what you might call a reseller, VAR or systems integrator) could build a reasonable branding message around green tech or environmental issues. While I haven't seen a whole lot of these companies do anything publicly, two jumped to...
- Tags: Green Technology, Luzuriaga, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-06-01
- Linux green activists unite!
- Linux enthusiasts are really good at pulling together for the good of the community, so here's hoping they'll be into the Installfest-for-Schools, a green tech event that is going to be held by LinuxWorld and Untangle come August. Here's the idea: Volunteers at the tradeshow will install...
- Tags: Green Technology, Linux Enthusiast, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Product Marketing, Software, Marketing, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-05-27
- Eco-labeling, lifecycle management services are linchpin for HP's big new green tech push
- I'm keenly aware of how much paper and ink I waste with my measely personal inkjet printer, I can't even imagine what it's like for a company the magnitude of Hewlett-Packard, which has decided to tackle the problem big-time with a series of new products and services coming out of...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Green Technology, Lifecycle Management, Printing, Printers, Document Management, Hardware, Peripherals, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-05-22
- Two green tech confabs coming up in early June
- For those of you green tech types who have occasion to be on the west coast in mid-June, there are two conferences you might want to drop by. The earlier meeting, in San Francisco, is focused on the development of universal power supplies for all ...
- Tags: Green Technology, Cell Phone, Conference, Transportation, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-05-20
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