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Heather Clancy is an award-winning business journalist in the New York area with more than 20 years experience covering the high-tech industry. She has a passion for green IT and regularly covers business technology issues and trends. Her articles have appeared in Entrepreneur, Fortune Small Business, The International Herald Tribune...- more about Heather Clancy »
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- 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
- Price cuts for Innergie universal power adapters
- If you've been thinking about consolidating all the cords you have to pick when you travel IF you travel, you just got a little bit more incentive to do so. That's because Innergie has cut its prices for these gadgets by 20 percent: the multiport mCube90 (which includes BOTH an...
- Tags: Adapter, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-07-02
- From iPhones to smart grid sensors
- When AT&T loses its iPhone exclusive, at least it will still represent some other wireless-enabled emerging technology: sensors for the smart grid. The telecommunications giant has struck an agreement with Cooper Power Systems under which it will be able to sell smart-grid sensor devices that have been certified to...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Sensor, AT&T Corp., Wireless, Smart Phones, Wi-Fi, Telecom & Utilities, Wireless And Mobility, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-07-02
- Some more Energy Star compatibility updates. This time, from Lenovo and Dell
- A quick alert to let you know that Dell believes that certain configurations among its OptiPlex desktops, Latitude notebooks and Precision workstations stand up to the Energy Star 5.0 specification, which went into effect today. Compliant models include the following: Latitude 2100, E4200, E4300, E5400, E5500, E6400,...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Lenovo Group Ltd., Dell Optiplex, Dell Latitude, Servers, Notebooks, Desktops, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-07-01
- 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
- Should you really buy new gear or look for almost new?
- A few months back, I mused about how long the average company should keep their technology infrastructure around and about whether or not they really need new equipment for certain applications. Needless to say, I heard from several organizations that make their living on the hope that businesses will at...
- Tags: Sales Strategy, Data Centers, Sales, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-07-01
- Get ready for the Energy Star 5.0 barrage: Let the testing begin
- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star 5.0 specification officially goes into effect on July 1, so steel yourselves for a flood of activity proclaiming support for the new standard. Some of the products you'll hear about, like a bunch of notebooks, desktops and monitors from Lenovo, have actually...
- Tags: Power Management, Specification, Power Supply, KWh, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-06-30
- IBM's latest campaign against paper
- You've got to love all the statistics that high-tech companies use to express the return on investment of their green IT offering du jour. Here is a new-ish one from IBM: the average office worker uses roughly 10,000 sheets of copy paper year. (Notice that does not mention printer output,...
- Tags: IBM Corp., Content Management, Web Technology, Outsourcing, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-06-29
- Solar-charged mobile phone on sale in Japan
- This would be a challenge in rain-logged New Jersey: Apparently the first solar-charging mobile phone is on sale in Japan. This blog from Fast Company has some details about the device, which is from Sharp. Their take, not such a great product. I must admit, if I was beholden to...
- Tags: Phone, Japan, Mobile, New Jersey, Cell Phone, Advertising & Promotion, Telecom & Utilities, Cellular Phones, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-06-28
- Wishful thinking: Can we make this carbon clock count backwords?
- Remember the world debt clock that loomed notoriously over Times Square in New York? Now, city residents will get to see a massive, close-to-70-foot tall carbon carbon counter that is being sponsored by Deutsche Bank's Asset Management division. [caption id="attachment_5597" align="alignnone" width="475" caption="Deutsche Bank counts carbon rather publicly"][/caption] ...
- Tags: Counter, Deutsche Bank AG, Carbon, Asset Management, Engineering, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-06-26
- 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
- Dell follows HP in certifying servers against new Energy Star server spec
- There hasn't been all that information released so far by the major hardware OEMs about how their server technology stands up against version 1 of an Energy Star specification for servers that was adopted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EPA a bit more than a month ago. HP was...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Specification, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Dell PowerEdge, Servers, Hardware, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-06-25
- IBM backs research behind Lithium-ion battery alternative
- Looks like more people have it in for the Lithium-ion batteries. IBM is the latest company to undertake a research initiative focused on next-generation rechargeable battery options, ones that it says can store up to 10 times more energy than today's Lithium-ion versions. IBM doesn't plan to...
- Tags: Lithium-ion, Battery, Lithium-ion Battery, IBM Corp., Engineering, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-06-24
- Not your average off-the-shelf system: New IBM supercomputer will heat university buildings
- A water-cooled supercomputer, called the Aquasar, is being built as part of a collaborative effort by IBM and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich. The project is part of IBM's First of a Kind Program, which leverages relevant research from outside of IBM's own research labs to advance technology...
- Tags: Supercomputer, IBM Corp., Transportation, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-06-23
- Gazelle is another place to get rid of your old gadgets
- Still trying to figure out what to do with your old phone if you opt to buy a new iPhone 3G S or a Palm Pre? A few days back, I pointed to NextWorth as a place that might buy your old mobile or smart phone. You...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Phone, Gazelle, Smart Phones, Telecom & Utilities, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-06-23
- Better Business Bureau weighs in on green claims of Dell vs. Apple
- Is the EPEAT rating system on its way to become a national standard? The National Advertising Division NAD of the Better Business Bureau, which was compelled to comment on a greenwashing dispute between Dell and Apple, has ruled that certifications granted through the Electronic Product Environmental Assessment...
- Tags: Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-06-22
- Got some opinions about smart grid technology? U.S. Commerce Department seeks feedback
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST, part of the U.S. Commerce Department of Commerce, has published a lengthy report detailing its notions about what should be included in the U.S. smart grid. Here's a quick excerpt from the summary: "The greatest benefit from the smart...
- Tags: Innovation, Grid Computing, Diversity, U.S. Department Of Commerce, Grid, Standards, NIST, Quality, Business Operations, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-06-22
- Survey: Don't just measure, do something!
- You know all those carbon footprint calculator tools that you can find all over the Web? Well, it seems not that many people are actually using them. A recent poll finds that just 7.1 percent of Americans in this survey group at least have attempted to figure...
- Tags: Carbon Footprint, Survey, Marketing Research, Marketing, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-06-19
- Faronics updates power management software with better Mac controls
- OK, I realize that the number of businesses using Macintosh computers is completely dwarved by Windows installations, but that doesn't mean they should be left out of the effort to manage power better at the corporate desktop. That's why Faronics has updated the Macintosh edition of its...
- Tags: Enterprise Management, Apple Macintosh, Power Management, Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-06-19
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