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At IBM's SOA Impact 2008 show in Las Vegas, James Governor argues that if SOA is a means to better alignment between IT and the business, then we should also drive sustainability into the mix.

Heat from a datacentre built in a bunker is being collected and transferred to the nearby pool as part of an innovative energy efficiency project undertaken by GIB-Services, a Swiss IT co-location company.

While it's true that many organisations are looking to reduce their carbon footprint, it's also the case that much of the green hype is unfounded. Besides, there's plenty of evidence that planting-a-tree missions are a misguided approach to reducing carbon emissions.

British software firm Access Accounting has incorporated a tool within its accounting package that will enable enterprises to assess the carbon footprint of individual users or departments within the company.

CeBIT, the world's largest IT trade show, is going green this year, with the Climate Savers Computing Initiative playing a central role.

First post of the year is based on an intriguing story from the Guardian, On the roof of the Andes, Bill Gates helps to build 'the world's biggest digital camera', immediately piqued my interest. It seems Gates and another Microsoft alumni, Charles Simonyi, are together funding the next stage of a project to build an extraordinary new telescope.

Over a third of IT executives (42%) say their firm does not monitor its IT-related energy spending and a further 9% don’t know if their firm monitors this, according to a new report

Open source software is a collective creation. It can be as good as anything produced by the giant software companies that dominate the IT market. Three years ago the UK government announced it would always consider open source software for its purchases. But research has shown the UK publics ector remains in bed with Microsoft et al. The Department of Work and Pensions using no open source. Other are little better...