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RSS global it carbonBusinesses demand more from CIOs
News A is for AbroadB is for BladesC is for Carbon footprintD is for Data centresE is for Energy sourcesF is for FreecycleG is for GovernmentH is for HomeworkingI is for Ice capsJ is for Jobs (Steve) K is for KilowattsL is for LandfillM is for MercuryN... [23 Jan 2008]
Q&A: Pen Hadow, explorer
Comment The focus of the survey is on a region whose change in response to global warming is greater than anywhere else on earth and is accelerating and therefore offers us the most powerful indicator of what is likely to happen - or is happening and what... [21 Jan 2008]
Top 10 retail IT stories of the year
News Tesco aims to cut data-centre carbon footprint Still on the green tip, Tesco promised to cut the carbon footprint of its data centres and stores by 2020. In what proved to be one of the last interviews before his resignation, Cobain outlined the... [19 Dec 2007]
Revealed: The top 30 offshoring destinations
News A is for AbroadB is for BladesC is for Carbon footprintD is for Data centresE is for Energy sourcesF is for FreecycleG is for GovernmentH is for HomeworkingI is for Ice capsJ is for Jobs (Steve) K is for KilowattsL is for LandfillM is for MercuryN... [11 Dec 2007]
Techies - clueless on climate change?
News And only 15 per cent of CIOs said they are planning to calculate their carbon footprint, with a further 38 per cent wanting to do so but not knowing how to calculate this figure, according to a survey by environmental charity Global Action Plan. [04 Dec 2007]
EC launches mobile carbon tracking
News The mobGAS software is free to download to a mobile phone and allows people to input daily activities that could produce the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide. A is for AbroadB is for BladesC is for Carbon footprintD is for... [03 Dec 2007]
Getting more out of the net
Comment Furthermore, carbon-neutral co-location providers are starting to emerge, such as Centrinet's Smartbunker in Lincolnshire UK, which claims to be powered solely by wind. Given the global reach of the internet and distribution of participants, such... [02 Nov 2007]
The greening of IT: Do it yourself
Comment Electricity-hogging data centres may attract the environmentalists' ire but the humble office has a lot to answer for in terms of carbon emissions, says Futurity Media's Stewart Baines. About 50 per cent of IT's carbon footprint is generated by the... [02 Nov 2007]
Data centres fuelling climate change?
News The main issue is not the current amount of data-centre emissions but the fact they are increasing faster than other carbon emissions, the company said in a research advisory. The intensive power requirements needed to run and cool data centres now... [12 Oct 2007]
Dell pledges to be carbon neutral
News Dell's rival, HP, has been awarded "Best in Class" for its approach to climate-change disclosure in a report by the Carbon Disclosure Project, a coalition of more than 315 global investors. Dell has claimed it is the first of the large IT suppliers... [28 Sep 2007]
The greening of IT: Cooling costs
Comment It's not often you can say BT displayed considerable foresight but, according to Steve O'Donnell, head of its entire global data centre estate, the BT board recognised the environmental challenges it would face and in 1996 set a 10-year goal of... [21 Sep 2007]
Make tech greener, CIOs told
News Speaking at a European e-government conference in Lisbon, Cabinet Office minister Gillian Merron called on the UK's CIO Council to reduce the carbon footprint of government computers and improve the sustainability of public sector IT.silicon.com... [21 Sep 2007]
Vodafone flaunts green credentials
News The report states that the company's total carbon dioxide emissions fell by 12 per cent during the past year, while the energy efficiency of new network equipment increased by 25 per cent. A global energy management team has been created within... [29 Jun 2007]
BT shrinks carbon footprint
News BT claims to have reduced its carbon footprint by 97,000 tonnes of CO2 per year by using phone conferences and videoconferencing to cut back on staff travel for meetings. A BT spokesman said: "There's a renewed focus on the carbon footprint.and... [21 May 2007]
Cost and energy benefits driving virtualisation
News Peter Pedersen, CTO at Rank Group, said: "Virtualisation is very much a priority to reduce cost, to increase agility, reduce space requirement and to reduce 'carbon footprint' through reduction in power utilisation for both equipment and cooling. [04 May 2007]
