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New York, N.Y. -- Accenture's newly unveiled Green Technology Suite takes the company's tried-and-true strategy tools and adds a green focus, helping companies explore the benefits of undertaking a wide range of projects in their IT departments.
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There's a lot of wishful thinking when it comes to detailing the bottom line benefits that can accrue to companies who pursue a green IT strategy. Enterprises make assumptions that they'll improve the bottom line by improving their IT department's environmental record. But is it, in fact, true?
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SALEM, Ore. -- A look at how the state implemented a three-year project to bring its infrastructure up to speed offers tips and opportunities for public and private organizations that are looking to trim costs while boosting environmental performance.
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MILWAUKEE, Wis. -- The company will integrate IBM's Tivoli monitoring software into its building management into JCI's building management system as a way of further improving energy efficiency in data centers.
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OAKLAND, Calif. -- In partnership with the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, Lawrence Berkeley Labs, the Department of Energy and others, the new report shows how adopting energy efficiency policies and hardware management practices can lead to significant cuts in power consumption for any data center.
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REDMOND, Wash. -- The company recognized that reducing energy consumption sometimes depends on behavior, not technology. So Microsoft began looking for ways to financially motivate its employees to change their behavior.
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AMSTERDAM, -- TeleCityGroup plans to use sound to measure humidity and air temperature and speed in order to boost energy efficiency in its data centers.
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In an unflinching assessment of their green credentials, more than 40 percent of European IT directors and board-level decision-makers surveyed said their firms' environmental performance is "not at all good" or "poor," according to reports of a sweeping European study.
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Any attempt to green IT should begin with virtualizing your servers, which is one of the fastest and easiest ways to reduce energy use and costs, and reduce the overall carbon footprint of your IT organization. In this column, Andrew Binstock offers clear advice on how virtualization can help, and includes links to useful benchmarks.
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OAKLAND, Calif. -- Rackspace's second annual survey investigating companies' attitudes toward green vendors and efficiency finds expenses have become a stronger force in making green decisions.
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ORLANDO, Fla. -- The technology company has announced new products and services that support virtualization in data centers.
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IBM will spend billions of dollars on its "Big Green" initiative over the next several years. David Metcalfe, Director of Vendantix, takes a look at the initiative, and offers six lessons that IT managers and CIOs can learn from it.
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SWINDON, UNITED KINGDOM -- The Carbon Trust and the British Computer Society have teamed up to provide software for viewing and simulating data center energy use and carbon emissions.
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SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Data center managers have technologies at their disposal that can nearly halve energy consumption and reduce associated greenhouse gas emissions by an amount equal to taking 8 million cars from the road, according to new research.
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Increasing the efficiency of your data center doesn't have to mean spending a great deal of money. Larry Pepper, senior practice manager for EMC Infrastructure Consulting, shows how you can green your data center and reduce operating costs while working within your existing capital budget.