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IT managers have been accused of ignoring green issues after a new survey from international consultancy group Morse revealed that 89 percent of businesses have no idea how much energy the IT department uses.

Nexsan has taken its AutoMAID technology - which throttles back the power usage of hard drives that are not currently being accessed - and applied it to a SAS array, claiming to be the first supplier with an energy-efficient SAS storage system.

IBM has introduced a carbon-emissions modelling tool, aimed at helping businesses analyse the environmental impact of supply-chain decisions and to devise alternative business practices.

The UK government's top CIO blasts the industry at an important Green IT event. Good read.

Why do so many people talk about carbon footprints, when what they mean is energy efficiency and power consumption?

Analyst report from In-Stat says LAN switches from 3Com are up to 60 percent more energy efficient than those from its competitors.

The IT industry needs to benchmark and copy best practice methodology rather than design from scratch, according to UK Government CIO John Suffolk.

VMware is talking up the green benefits of its virtualisation technology after recording a strong performance in the first quarter.

For every server virtualised, customers can save about 7,000 kilowatt hours, or four tons of CO2 emissions, every year, says company.

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.

Green sells, whether the product in question is a hybrid car or a laptop computer. Tech firms know this, but they also face growing scepticism as a result of the the deluge of greenwash we are all being subjected to.

Only about 10 percent of PCs used by organisations have power management enabled, and as a result are wasting large amounts of electricity.

Nearly half of IT professionals admit that they had run out of space, power or cooling capacity at their datacentres, according to a recent survey of 150 IT professionals.

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 and Open Source software is free of licence costs.

Xerox has long been known for innovation and recently they released an online Flash-application-based Sustainability Calculator, which helps companies understand the savings they will achieve by reductions in the number of printers they have.