reuse in comment and analysis
Deron Beal
AS Profile The founding tenet of Freecycle is that reusing is even better for the environment than recycling and Beal's idea of harnessing the web to facilitate reuse has clearly been a winner, albeit not for the local newspaper... [29 Sep 2009]
IT essential for businesses' green success
Comment Eliminate', 'reduce', 'reuse' might be your watchwords. David Tebbutt offers energy-saving tips for IT managers. Life is tough for IT management. Not only does it have to juggle the conflicting demands of 'business as... [19 Aug 2009]
CIOs: Go large for services
Comment The idea of reuse and services has been around in one form or another for more than 30 years. The idea of 'build it once and reuse it forever' is very appealing. The concepts of reuse... [24 Jun 2009]
"We don't need custom services, we don't need anything fancy"
Comment Asked what, looking back, he wishes he could have changed or done differently, he told silicon.com: "I would have liked to have seen if we could have done things just a little bit quicker and been able to get on the... [06 Apr 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 20.02.09
Round-Up From an environmental perspective you can reuse old chargers. How are we feeling today? Chilled? Relaxed? Not a care in the world? Of course we are, because as everyone knows a job in IT is the most relaxing in the world. [20 Feb 2009]
Time to green-light sustainable IT
Comment Reuse and repurposing need to be considered instead of replacement. True sustainability is much more than hammering the data centre over power, says Martin Atherton. The current penchant for invoking green IT whenever... [17 Jul 2008]
Q&A: Julian David: IBM's vice president public sector business
Comment How do you get an efficient architecture that government can use to deliver its infrastructure and then how do you reuse assets within that? We've also picked up the challenge for asset reuse. Julian... [05 Dec 2007]
Hot issue for green IT
Comment Some of these techniques can not only save money by dealing more effectively with issues such as excess heat but can also reuse this heat elsewhere in the organisation. Once you've exhausted the obvious ways of making... [14 Nov 2007]
The greening of IT: Why less is more
Comment Not only can this be misleading, it distracts us from what we really need to do so save our fragile earth: consume less, reuse more. Only when you have proved you can conserve and reuse should you be... [13 Aug 2007]
How tech can make us greener
Comment Three- to five-year upgrade cycles and the increasing difficulty of replacing system components mean reuse is less likely, and replacement means waste. Though IT is often blamed for not being 'green' enough, there are... [24 May 2007]
Leader: Wise up to PC recycling
Leader Local businesses can salvage real value from a PC because the culture is already based on 'reuse', rather than 'replace'. Last week one of the silicon.com team was in Kenya to find out first-hand how PCs donated in the... [12 Feb 2007]
Leader: What will WEEE mean?
Leader Another certainty is that the introduction of the WEEE Directive will coincide with improvements in the way we use and reuse IT equipment that have a positive environmental impact. So the WEEE Directive is finally... [03 Jan 2007]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: SOA - huh?
Comment SOA is an evolutionary approach that does not require a rip-and-replace of infrastructure and applications but does generally require buy-in from the business to gain the major benefits, such as functional component... [22 Sep 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: More wireless equals more wires
Comment In addition, the reuse of spectrum - and the control and limitation of interference - dictate increasingly small cells as bandwidth demands increase. The inclusion of more intelligent computing power will allow the use... [04 May 2006]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Gov't IT - get it right
Comment Think finance and insurance companies, major retail organisations and telecommunications companies - all of these are implementing SOA and have the same issues about needing to reuse existing investments, and avoid the... [01 Dec 2005]
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