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Go Green With Home Agents: How a Virtual Contact Center Can Be Good for Profitability, Competitiveness, and the Environment

whitepaper The carbon atom. It's too small to be visible to the naked eye, but it's causing a shift in global business that's hard to ignore. That shift probably is visible in one's business. Perhaps one's company's leaders are committed to doing their part...

Tags: call center - contact

[17 May 2008]

OSIsoft, Long Used for Performance Measurement, Now Boosts Environmental Sustainability

whitepaper The fear of global warming has accelerated interest in carbon footprint reduction, of course, as have government requirements at a variety of levels - from the international Kyoto Protocol to national laws in Europe and elsewhere, to enacted or...

Tags: application servers

[16 May 2008]

EC backs tech for green future

News The European Commission (EC) is backing the use of technology to cut carbon emissions and improve energy efficiency across Europe's economy. The Commission is promoting the intelligent use of tech to improve efficiency in buildings, lighting and...

Tags: energy, emissions, carbon, europe

[15 May 2008]

Data Centers Are Adopting Green Initiatives But Are Wary of Vendors' Marketing Messages

whitepaper While the newspaper headlines target the growth of cheap flights as a leading cause of global warming, some commentators have suggested the IT industry is responsible for more carbon emissions than aviation.

Tags: data center

[15 May 2008]

Tech-savvy workers to make IT decisions in future

News By 2010, 75 per cent of organisations will use full life-cycle energy and carbon footprint as mandatory PC hardware-buying criteria. By 2011, suppliers to large global enterprises will need to prove their green credentials via an audited process to...

Tags: it, laptop, internet, smart phones

[14 Apr 2008]

Utilizing Temperature Monitoring to Increase Datacenter Cooling Efficiency

whitepaper Considerable effort has been taken to decrease the carbon footprint of the organization through various means: paperless offices, hybrid company cars, reducing waste and many more. Looming over the heads of any environmentally conscious company, is...

Tags: data center

[11 Apr 2008]

Data Center Transformation: HP's Proven Data Center Transformation Approach Can Help You Reduce Costs, Manage Risks, and Accelerate Business Growth

whitepaper And environmental concerns mean data centers are under increasing pressure to reduce their carbon footprint and dispose of old equipment in a safe and eco-friendly manner. In today's connected global marketplace, data centers are more important...

Tags: data center

[11 Apr 2008]

BT CEO Ben Verwaayen to step down

News Verwaayen also gets credit for leading BT's drive to push climate change up the agenda, calling for government action on global warming and presiding over a shrinking corporate carbon footprint at BT through initiatives such as investing in energy...

Tags: ofcom, bt, verwaayen

[08 Apr 2008]

Thin clients the route to skinny emissions?

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...

Tags: pc, thin client, co2

[28 Mar 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...

Tags: green it, flight, mobile, open source

[27 Mar 2008]

Inflation-busting tech budgets predicted

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...

Tags: spending, vista, recession, virtualisation

[10 Mar 2008]

Why green ICT is good for the bottom line

whitepaper This executive summary sets out how organisations can adopt a responsible ICT strategy that can simultaneously reduce power requirements and costs, change the culture of their organisation and its people to manage carbon more efficiently, and...

[28 Feb 2008]

UK tech has 12 years to help save the planet

News The UK technology industry has just 12 years to slash its rapidly growing carbon footprint if it is to help the world avoid catastrophic climate change, a study has found. A is for AbroadB is for BladesC is for Carbon footprintD is for Data...

Tags: green, environment, it, electronics

[12 Feb 2008]

Businesses 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...

Tags: cio, strategy, it, gartner

[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...

Tags: arctic, pen hadow, vanco, climate change

[21 Jan 2008]

Data Center Transformation

whitepaper And environmental concerns mean data centers are under increasing pressure to reduce their carbon footprint and dispose of old equipment in a safe and eco-friendly manner. In the connected global marketplace, data centers are more important than ever.

Tags: data center

[08 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...

Tags: iplayer, retail, bbc, ibm

[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...

Tags: offshoring, gartner, china, bric

[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.

Tags: green it, cio, carbon, purchasing

[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...

Tags: green, emissions, ec, mobile

[03 Dec 2007]

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