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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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FRAMINGHAM, Mass. -- A recent survey by IDC finds that even the smallest businesses are starting to take green initiatives to heart, especially when it comes to adopting IT applications that will make it easier to make their supply chains greener.
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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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By James Murray, BusinessGreen
Published: July 21, 2008
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM -- The Climate Savers Computing Initiative is urging more IT departments to sign up to WWF-backed group, and is focusing on bringing more purchasing departments on board with the group's agenda.
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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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FRAMINGHAM, Mass. -- Dell, HP, IBM, Intechra and Redemtech yesterday became the first companies to receive the G.R.A.D.E. certification from IDC, evaluating their performance in handling 34 key areas of IT asset disposal.
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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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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Two research projects at Purdue University hold the promise of significantly cooling the next generation of high-performance chips, laptops and personal computers.
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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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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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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Despite the daunting challenge of developing a performance-based rating system for servers, the EPA plans to have a phase-one version of the new Energy Star standards ready by year's end.
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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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SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. -- In its latest Guide to Greener Electronics, Greenpeace started looking at a number of energy issues, causing many companies' score to drop drastically.
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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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ROUND ROCK, Texas -- The new server power unit is a year in advance of several energy-efficiency certifications, and is part of Dell's overall strategy to be the world's greenest tech company.
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MILPITAS, Calif. -- The new line of flash memory, unveiled yesterday by Spansion and Virident, is designed to replace DRAM in servers for search-heavy applications; the companies estimate significant energy savings and reductions in TCO.
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AUSTIN, Texas -- Looking at marketing, perceptions and adoption of energy-efficient IT products around the globe shows distinct movements in what motivates companies and countries to purchase green IT, as well as how some have succeeded in branding themselves as green while others struggle.