IT directors are tired of green marketing messages and want proper benchmarks to evaluate products. The greenest thing they can do though is sweat their assets according to a leading UK government green IT leader.
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CIOs demand clarity on green technology
Government CIO: IT needs to tackle 'mediocrity'
The UK government's top CIO blasts the industry at an important Green IT event. Good read.
The future is green, open source and Nintendo
We all need to support teh use of Open Source thin-client solutions in an educational context. Its worth stating, again, what is really the blindingly obvious - thin-client work stations use one twentieth of the power of a typical PC (10-20 watts versus 200-400 watts), require no maintenance or technical per-machine support.
Electricity companies pay IT organisations to save power
Utility companies are increasingly concerned about the power crisis facing large organisations and in the US this week they have met to discuss the actions and incetnives needed to get IT organisations to take the issue seriously.
CeBIT: Green computing finds its place
CeBIT, the world's largest IT trade show, is going green this year, with the Climate Savers Computing Initiative playing a central role.
What IT Suppliers could learn from Marks and Spencer and Oxfam
Top retailer Marks and Spencer and leading charity Oxfam are incentivising recycling. Major IT suppliers have recycling schemes for their old kit, but we haven't seen them offer substantial rebates for doing so. Its about time they did.
How Virtualisation Improves the Environment: VMing the World
Virtualisation is simply the ability to pool computing resources so that can be accessed by many devices and services. Using virtualisation you can drive up computer utilisation from 15% or capacity to nearer 90%. The green benefits are obvious.
Cherish the AIR? Just because you can doesn't mean you should
Bit of a dig here about Apple's trendy new laptop and why Apple might not be as good for the environment as hety would like us ot believe they are now.
"Apple is not a leader on a greener market, it's just catching up, making small careful steps where giant ones are needed and projecting the small ones on a big screen to make them look bigger than they really are..."
IBM, Big Green, Rational and Eco-aware Programming
IBM is getting its developers to create "green code" - that means building software products that focus on efficiency. Another sign that green is not just good for the environment but encourages good design that we can all benefit from.
UK tech industry sets carbon-cutting goals
What is claimed to be the first public document to look at the energy demands of IT products and services and set out a plan to cut IT’s carbon footprint has been published by Intellect, the UK tech industry’s trade association.
Bit Miles: How Company Reports Hurt the Planet
Sun saves 11,000 trees a year with paperless annual reports. Other Fortune 500 companies please take note...
Leaner, greener desktops - five easy steps
Data centres use more power per square foot than any other part of the IT estate but, as a percentage of total power consumption, office equipment is the place where the most gains can be made. This is how ot do it.
On CES, Greening, and Gizmodo as Eco-Pranksters
The IT industry's biggest trade show is going green and being fully supporting the Climate Savers Computing Initiative. But wouldn't everyone be bettter off staying at home and if you must, using the Internet to get the info you need?
How Microsoft is going green
Microsoft, with 70,000 employees spread out across the world, is deep into a corporate-wide evaluation of how it can become a more environmentally friendly corporation.
The effort encompasses hardware, software, datacentres and Microsoft's role as a corporate citizen. The hope is to initiate Microsoft's people, products and programmes into the green revolution.
Greener retail IT from IBM
IBM has announced the Green Retail Store portfolio, a range of more energy-efficient IT products that handle all aspects of retailing, from the shop floor to the back office.
Tech companies share environmental patents
IBM, Nokia, Sony and bulk-mailing equipment manufacturer Pitney-Bowes have together donated patents to the Eco-patent Commons, an organisation set up to share the patents for technology with environmental benefits.
Tax and Travel in EU: On Carbon Added Tax
The Twitter social networking service often kicks off great discussions, including one about carbon footprints and corporate travel between Craig Cmehil and Alan Wood. This has been tidied up as a guest post for greenmonk, to illustrate the great grassroots conversations about economic greening occuring on social networks. It is well worth a read...
HP to reduce PC energy use by 25% in two years
At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, HP said that to reach its goal it would cut energy usage by by 25% by integrating power saving technologies and processes, including more efficient power supplies and lower-energy chipsets. The company plans on making the changes across its entire PC
Five tips for low-energy business computing
Energy use is rapidly becoming a major concern for business and computers are increasingly seen as a major power guzzler. Energy saving measures in IT can be implemented with a minimum of cost and disruption to normal operation. This article gives some good advice on how.
Negroponte slams Intel over One Laptop Per Child
Nicholas Negroponte, founder and chairman of One Laptop Per Child project has broken his silence and slammed Intel for its decision last week to withdraw from the organisation’s board of directors, claiming they contributed nothing to the project to deliver cheap, green compupters to poverty striken children.
Intel quits One Laptop Per Child project
Chip giant refuses requests to kill OLPC rival Classmate PC, leaving project struggling.
IBM face legal action over pollution at former New York plant
group of more than 90 current and former residents of Endicott, New York launched legal action against IBM on 3 January, alleging that the company's manufacturing operations in the area caused decades of environmental contamination that made them sick.
Server rivals unite on energy-efficiency standard
Major vendors in the IT server industry have banded together to create a new standard for measuring the relation of power consumption to performance. This is a major step forward for end user who want a realistic measure of the power/efficiency ration of rival products. It should be agreat help to all those who want to buy green and who have to justify the financial cost of doing so.
Sign This Petition ASAP: Governments WTF?
Why is it the only people that don't seem to get the urgency of the climate change situation are our elected leaders? Avaaz is a lobbying group, and this is a good petition
http://www.avaaz.org/en/
CIOs and other execs lament conflicting green rules
Nearly nine in ten European firms see a conflict between the regulations set out by national governments and the European Union, and 89% view green compliance as a "financial burden", according to the research conducted by research firm Coleman Parkes....
An inefficient truth: The greening of IT
There is a great short video of the launch of Global Action Plan's pathbreaking study of the understanding of the IT industry's understanding of the green agenda and what they are going to do about it. Hard facts, people determined to do better and even some grounds for optimism...
The video is on the right hand side of the page - scroll down.
Hot Friday Green Link Action: Dell, Islington, SOCITM, John Lewis
Dell, UK local authorities, retailers... people are acting on the green message.
Companies still slow to green their IT – survey
Despite growing awareness of the need to adopt more environmentally friendly IT practices, a quarter of firms (26%) admit to having done next to nothing to green their IT, according a PMP Research study commissioned by the Evaluation Centre.
Sun to set up datacentre in coalmine
Sun and a consortium of other businesses are going to lower Blackbox self-contained computing facilities into a Japanese coalmine to set up an underground datacentre, using up to 50% less power than a ground-level datacentre.
Green500 offers new supercomputer list
The Green500 List ranks the world's 500 most powerful super computers by their energy efficiency. It is an important riposte to an IT industry which has so far put speed first