August 14, 2008

Fight rising fuel surcharges with e-signatures

Fidelity's adoption of e-sigs is a ringing endorsement of the technology's waste-reducing business benefits more

TAGS: E-signatures

August 11, 2008

FUD tarnishes the telecommuting experience

Despite research pointing to productivity and cost advantages for telecommuting, skepticism on both side remains that it's a good idea more

TAGS: Telecommuting

August 07, 2008

Greening by industry

Do you know what technology your industry needs to move toward sustainability? more

TAGS: Green technology

August 06, 2008

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As some of you may know, I send out a free Green Tech newsletter every Thursday. In it, I recap some of the top green-tech news of the week that you may have missed, plus inject some of my own thoughts on what's going on. To subscribe, head on over to this lovely subscription page, enter your e-mail address, opt in or out for other InfoWorld mailings, then click Subscribe. Voila, you're done! Also, if you have colleagues interested in sustainable technology trends for business, please pass the subscription info on to them.... more

TAGS: Green technology

August 05, 2008

ADC lands Platinum LEED pre-certification for new Sacramento facility

Sustainable techniques and technologies such as "free cooling" bring the facility's PUE down to just 1.1 more

TAGS: ADC (Advanced Data Centers), Datacenter development, Energy conservation, Environmental preservation, LEED

August 01, 2008

Coding green, revisited

I'm obviously not the first person to think about the concept of coding green. I say that because after writing about the topic this week, I found this article on earth2tech titled "Your bad code is killing my planet," written last year by Alistair Croll, vice president of product management and co-founder of Coradiant. In it, Croll takes the position that three modern advances in technology mean that bad code matter: 1. Virtualization - If you're scaling apps across hundreds of servers, you don't want bloated code, or it means you more of a load for your machines. That, in... more

TAGS: Application development

August 01, 2008

Bank of America to halve HVAC costs

Energy management system built on FDSI technology will reap big savings, reduce CO2 emissions by 14,000 tons per year more

TAGS: Power consumption

July 31, 2008

Coding green for the future

The burden of green doesn't just fall on hardware vendors; software developers need to crank out slimmer, more eco-friendly code more

TAGS: Application development

July 28, 2008

PG&E adds thin provisioning to energy-saving incentive program

Program grew from 3PAR's demonstration that combining storage virtualization and thin provisioning can save power more

TAGS: 3PAR, Green technology, PG&E, Power consumption, Storage, Storage virtualization, Thin provisioning

July 24, 2008

IT admins should also think green

Your list of IT duties may be long, but viewing that list through green-hued glasses can reap dividends for you and your organization more

TAGS: Green technology

July 23, 2008

Accenture primes tech tools for green consulting

Consultancy unveils new suite of tools to bolster its burgeoning green consulting services more

TAGS: Accenture, Accenture, Carbon emissions

July 17, 2008

Six tips for safely choosing an IT asset disposal partner

Picking the right company to help retire your IT gear could not only save you some cash and headaches, it could protect you from a regulatory nightmare more

TAGS: Dell, HP, IBM, ITAD (IT asset disposal), Intechra, Redemtech

July 10, 2008

Make the perfect laptop greener

InfoWorld's proposed WorldBooks could set a higher standard for green computing I've got to hand it to InfoWorld Chief Technologist Tom Yager: He's come up with very slick, innovative designs for two laptops, the InfoWorld WorldBook Ether and Meteor. He says the machines could theoretically be built and shipped within the year -- if hardware vendors had the gumption to do so. To his credit, Tom did include some green features in his dream laptops. For example, they're Energy Star 4.0-compliant; they've got mercury-free LED backlights and arsenic-free glass, and the displays employ GreenZone technology which "dramatically reduces power by... more

TAGS: Notebooks

July 10, 2008

Savor the fruit of others' green IT success

Organizations are contributing to the greater good by making their datacenter best practices transparent Whether for the sake of helping tackle the datacenter power crisis, chipping in to fight global warming, winning over new customers, or racking up bragging rights, recently companies have been readily opening their datacenters in recent months (at least figuratively) and giving the world -- including would-be competitors -- a peek at their special techniques for reaping greater energy efficiency. Whatever the motivation, the practice is bound to be of use to organizations confounded by high energy bills, limited power for their datacenters, and perhaps directives... more

TAGS: Cooling, Datacenter development, Energy conservation, Green technology, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Power consumption, Power supplies, Server virtualization, Silicon Valley Leadership Group (SVLG), Sustainable IT, Symantec, Virtualization, Yahoo

June 26, 2008

The three principles of datacenter energy efficiency

There are three key principles to datacenter energy efficiency according to Subodh Bapat, VP and distinguished engineer at Sun. He shared them with the audience during his keynote address here at the Silicon Valley Leadership Group's Data Center Energy Summit, hosted at Sun's Santa Clara, Calif.-based headquarters. First, there's the principle of totality which states that an energy efficient datacenter has every component appropriately harnessed to deliver the most energy-efficient operation possible. He stressed a point often noted by The Green Grid: that the datacenter is an ecosystem and for it to be truly energy efficient, all of its pieces... more

TAGS: Green technology, Sun

June 26, 2008

Good-bye DRAM, hello flash?

For some datacenter operators out there, insufficient server processing power isn't driving them to adopt more and more servers. Rather, it's the lack of precious server memory, necessary to deliver results at the lightning speed users have come to expect -- nay, demand -- from search engines, social networking sites, e-commerce sites, and similar Internet-based applications. A pair of companies, Virident and Spansion, have announced a remedy to the problem: replacing (or, more accurately, supplementing) the traditional DRAM found on servers with a flavor of flash memory called EcoRAM, capable of boosting a single server's memory beyond today's 32GB limit... more

TAGS: Storage

June 25, 2008

Dell gets a jump on Energy Star 5.0

When Energy Star 4.0 went into effect last year, it seemed to set a rather high bar for power supplies: In order for a computer to meet the standard, it needs a PSU with a minimum efficiency of 80 percent. But hardware vendor Dell already appears to have an eye on the next version of the Energy Star specification, which is slated to go into effect in July of 2009. Over the past month, however, Dell has set a couple of new bars for PSU efficiency, unveiling the first 80 Plus Silver-certified PSU for desktops and just today announcing the... more

TAGS: Dell, Energy Star 4.0, Power supplies