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The Weekly Round-Up: 20.11.09
Round-Up That way you can cut your electricity bill, trim your CO2 emissions and turn your team into a lean, mean IT machine into the bargain. In fact - as an aside - even Whitehall is putting IT on a diet, with the government's... [20 Nov 2009]
Westminster computing put on size-zero diet
News In September the government announced that during the previous year it had lowered its IT-related carbon footprint by 12,000 tonnes - a cut of just 2.6 per cent of its total computing-related emissions. [13 Nov 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Virtualisation
News Fewer physical servers mean a smaller electricity bill from the reduced amount of hardware and the fewer cooling systems needed - meaning virtualisation is good for the environment as it reduces the amount of carbon... [11 Nov 2009]
Green IT: Thrifty CIOs should make it a priority
News Under the scheme, organisations which use more than roughly £500,000 of electricity per year (including hotel chains, large local authorities and supermarket chains) will have to purchase allowances equivalent to their... [29 Oct 2009]
Keeping IT green in tough times
News This could involve introducing PC power management software - a relatively small technology implementation that could result in substantial savings on energy bills as well as a significant reduction in energy used and related... [22 Oct 2009]
It's down to you to save the world, IT industry
News The ICT industry must lead the way in conserving energy and reducing carbon emissions, according to the EC. As well as calling for the reduction of carbon emissions... [13 Oct 2009]
C-Lock Technology Streamlines Greenhouse Gas Emission Monitoring Processes to Help Save the Planet Using an SOA Solution From IBM and EIM
White Paper C-Lock Technology was established in March 2007 in response to the growing need for a standard, efficient method for organizations to monitor carbon dioxide and other GreenHouse Gas (GHG) emissions, an... [01 Oct 2009]
Padmasree Warrior
AS Profile At Cisco Warrior is involved with unified communications and use of ICT to cut carbon emissions. Cisco's Unified Computing strategy is highly disruptive to existing datacentre players like IBM and HP,... [29 Sep 2009]
More of a whimper than a bang: Whitehall's green tech drive
News However, the 12,000-tonne saving represents a tiny fraction of government IT's carbon emissions - equating to just 2.6 per cent of the 460,000 tonnes that Whitehall IT generates each year. The government... [16 Sep 2009]
Best Practices in Carbon Footprint Modeling: Going Beyond Inventories and Calculations
White Paper This paper explains the differences between calculating and modeling emissions, the critical parallels between cost and Greenhouse Gas (GhG) accounting, collecting and managing data, and using activity-based modeling... [16 Sep 2009]
Big Blue wants tech to get water management flowing
News IBM launched Big Green Innovations two and a half years ago to capitalise on constraints in energy generation, carbon emissions, energy in the datacentre, and water. IBM is developing a portfolio of... [08 Sep 2009]
Data Center Improvements for Long-Term Savings
White Paper At the same time, they can reduce their electrical consumption and make an important difference in the volume of carbon emissions they generate. There is a tremendous difference between data center... [30 Aug 2009]
Cloud computing a buzzing in business ears
Comment Cloud computing - if the evangelists are to be believed - is going to change the way businesses access services and information forever, cut carbon emissions and save them a packet in the process. Cloud... [20 Aug 2009]
The Role of IT in Campus Sustainability Efforts
White Paper As the impact of worldwide carbon emissions comes into sharper focus, college and university sustainability efforts are increasingly turning green, focusing on ways to use resources more efficiently,... [31 Jul 2009]
Easing the Space, Power, and Cooling Crunch With Green Internet Datacenter Re-Design
White Paper Indeed, even the growing evidence of global climate change has not spurred many governmental or business organizations to take dramatic steps to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by reducing energy... [31 Jul 2009]
