Sustainable IT | Ted Samson

Telecommuting on the rise in U.S. and Canada

Ted Samson — 2008-08-27T15:25:05-08:00

42 percent of American companies and 40 percent of Canadian say they let employees telework READ MORE

TrendPoint offers four-prong attack to greening your datacenter

Ted Samson — 2008-08-27T09:59:36-08:00

Devising an energy budget and measuring datacenter efficiency among key strategies READ MORE

Intel launches $400K contest to tackle global needs

Ted Samson — 2008-08-26T10:14:25-08:00

Chipmaker seeks entries that are sustainable, innovative -- and Intel-based READ MORE

Fight rising fuel surcharges with e-signatures

Ted Samson — 2008-08-14T03:00:00-08:00

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

FUD tarnishes the telecommuting experience

Ted Samson — 2008-08-11T13:29:48-08:00

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

Greening by industry

Ted Samson — 2008-08-07T03:00:00-08:00

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

Subscribe to my free weekly Green Tech newsletter

Ted Samson — 2008-08-06T11:04:00-08:00

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.... READ MORE

ADC lands Platinum LEED pre-certification for new Sacramento facility

Ted Samson — 2008-08-05T09:29:00-08:00

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

Coding green, revisited

Ted Samson — 2008-08-01T23:15:15-08:00

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... READ MORE

Bank of America to halve HVAC costs

Ted Samson — 2008-08-01T09:07:12-08:00

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

Coding green for the future

Ted Samson — 2008-07-31T03:00:03-08:00

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

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

Ted Samson — 2008-07-28T10:34:50-08:00

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

IT admins should also think green

Ted Samson — 2008-07-24T03:00:00-08:00

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

Accenture primes tech tools for green consulting

Ted Samson — 2008-07-23T14:51:35-08:00

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

Six tips for safely choosing an IT asset disposal partner

Ted Samson — 2008-07-17T03:00:00-08:00

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 READ MORE