green in comment and analysis
Time to green-light sustainable IT
Comment With their piecemeal approaches, most organisations are merely dabbling with green technology. Drivers Internal drivers might be a desire to make or save money or to look green. The current penchant for invoking green IT whenever data centre power... [17 Jul 2008]
Dear silicon.com: Tech teacher shortage, Kangaroo and phones on planes
Comment So it's green as well. The issue that got readers talking this week was the IT-teacher drought - is "boring" IT to blame? Also getting readers reaching for their keyboards this week, the OFT and Kangaroo and phones on planes - love them or loathe... [03 Jul 2008]
Getting to the meeting - without the journey
Comment Costs, delays and green issues are all conspiring against business travel. Those factors are also coinciding with the growth of the very tech that could spare you a journey, says Stewart Baines. Would you rather sweat in a traffic jam, anxious... [30 Jun 2008]
Gareth Hill
CIO Profile Prior to this, Hill was IS director at Philip Green's UK retail group Arcadia for six years - initially joining as the ecommerce development director - and has also had stints at Arthur Andersen, IBM and Rex TrueForm Clothing. [11 Jun 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 30.05.08
Round-Up Finally, people surrounded by swathes of green space and clean air, with unfettered access to village fetes and enough room in their back garden to grow vast quantities of organic vegetables now had fast internet access, too. [30 May 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 23.05.08
Round-Up Although it is still white and green, which is a strange choice for a computer. Green IT in action: the country's biggest biomass-powered plant urges you to save the planet by burning some trees. Green IT in-action: the government wants to reduce... [23 May 2008]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Tighten content security
Comment With most business users having spam controls in place, the email security vendors have found new business harder to acquire and have been limited to attracting competitors' customers rather than finding green-field opportunities. [02 May 2008]
'Green' technology can't save us from ourselves
Comment Green IT from A to ZClick on the links below to find out more. It's now commonly held that this is a 'green technology'. Technology can be many things - often frustrating, frequently ingenious, occasionally revolutionary. [28 Apr 2008]
Cost-cutting tops CIO priorities
Comment One new issue high among CIO priorities this year is green IT and the need to reduce the power consumption and carbon footprint of IT operations, while web 2.0, software as a service and service-oriented architecture also make it onto the list. [18 Apr 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Instant delays
Comment And yes - you've guessed it - there is a tricky door handle, plus e-card, warning and green lights, and opening and shutting protocols that conspire to produce a four-second delay. Written while flying from London to Greece on BA632 and dispatched... [16 Apr 2008]
The Naked CIO: Crunch time for large projects
Comment So knowing when to delay or cancel a project is just as important as giving it the green light, says the Naked CIO. Project failures suck all the attention away from IT's real contributions. Do large projects make or break a CIO? [14 Apr 2008]
IT must be called to account over emissions
Comment This is either a major oversight, or it may be a sign of a company merely paying lip service to the green agenda. Green IT from A to ZClick on the links below to find out more. Because of a lack of awareness of the damage IT may be causing, it is... [07 Apr 2008]
Editor's Blog: My Freecycle identity crisis
Comment And so, I posted the offer of my bed on Freecycle and sat back and waited for responses, basking in the warm glow of simultaneously de-cluttering my home and living green. Recently I had a bed I wanted to get rid of - one that was, I felt, too good... [01 Apr 2008]
Dear silicon.com... green carrots, cloud nine chats, open source ponderings …
Comment The problem is that 'techies' are sufficiently educated to realise that all this 'carbon footprint', 'global warming' talk is just politicians who - having lost control of the populous via religion - have decided to start their own new religion of... [27 Mar 2008]
The CIO shopping list
Comment The main prediction by CIOs for the most-hyped technology in 2008 is green IT, followed by web 2.0 and social networking, m-commerce and - look away now Microsoft - Vista yet again. Pressure to justify IT budgets and get better value for money from... [26 Mar 2008]
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