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whitepaper Microsoft Builds a Green Campus to Save Costs and Reduce Carbon Footprint2009-08-01 Microsoft
  Microsoft planned to expand its facilities in Shanghai, China, beginning in late 2007. It needed to incorporate sustainable building requirements and cost savings into the campus. Microsoft IT worked with other Microsoft teams to build and run a green campus in Shanghai. The teams focused on deriving benefits from the following elements of the campus: offices, data center, labs, desktop and laptop computers, virtual collaboration.

Tags: IT Budgeting		   
whitepaper Energy Company Promotes Environmental Responsibility, Lowers Costs With "Green IT"2009-05-25 Microsoft
  MidAmerican Energy Company is highly focused on environmental responsibility, including energy generation from renewable resources. The company also promotes this responsibility within IT, relying on Microsoft products and technologies to help reduce its energy usage and lower costs. With its "Green IT" strategies, the company has reduced power consumption, minimized travel, and is working to generate energy more efficiently.   
whitepaper Green IT Project Report: Consolidation and Virtualization in x86 Environments2009-04-08 Fujitsu
  Wincor Nixdorf needed To reduce complexity - consolidation of Blade Server infrastructure with 150 servers to cut costs - modern server hardware and virtualization, to improve service for users - streamlined operational processes and improved application availability and to commit to green IT - energy savings and efficient use of advanced technology. Wincor Nixdorf's Padergreen Project, which involved the replacement of 150 Blade Servers, clearly showed that a combination of current server technology and virtualization technology is the best way to take full advantage of potential for savings. Fujitsu determined the optimal mix for Green IT by comparing the Blade Server environment in place with a target configuration consisting of current PRIMERGY Blade Servers with VMware under actual customer operating conditions.

Tags: Server Hardware, IT Budgeting		   
whitepaper Application Case Study: Green IT Project Management2009-02-20 AMULET Development
  Going "Green" is a mission of many companies around the globe not just for reasons of environmental responsibility, but also for cutting costs in these extremely tight economic times. In order to make the project management application readily available to all participating parties over the web, the company chose to use an on-demand software solution from HostedDatabase.com. The Project Management application is quick to set-up and simple to use. The HostedDatabase.com Green IT Project Management application only contains a single project although the software can be used to manage any number of projects. Each project is defined in the View Projects tab which contains project-level data such as project name, project manager, category, priority, status, date range, budget, etc.

Tags: IT Budgeting		   
whitepaper How IBM Supported Kika/Leiner's Branding Strategy With a Green Data Center2008-11-19 Forrester Research
  European furniture retailer kika/Leiner Group is going green. Its stores and furniture products are designed and branded to appeal to increasingly green-conscious consumers in its home country of Austria and throughout central Europe. IBM brought its Project Big Green resources - hardware, software, and services - to bear in greening kika/Leiner's data center and IT infrastructure, and it helped make green IT a pillar of the company's branding and marketing efforts.

Tags: IT Budgeting		   
whitepaper Green Grows Saddleback Valley2008-10-01 Dell
  Saddleback Valley Unified School District needed to refresh its aging HP server farm in an environment of severe budget cutting. Existing servers were poorly utilized and required extensive amounts of power and cooling. The district consolidated and virtualized its HP servers onto 7 Dell PowerEdge 1955 blades running VMware ESX Server 3. A Dell/EMC CX3-20 SAN array provides efficient, centralized backup storage for the virtual machines.

Tags: IT Infrastructure, Server Hardware, IT Budgeting		   
whitepaper James Madison University Celebrates Its Centennial by Replacing Its HP Servers With Green, Power Efficient Dell Servers2008-09-01 Dell
  James Madison University needed to ensure high availability for its Oracle database and PeopleSoft Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, as well as provide reliable desktops and notebooks for students and staff. The university purchased Dell PowerEdge servers, Dell/ EMC storage and Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) software for a redundant, load-balanced environment. Now nearly 100% Dell in its data center, James Madison University also distributes Dell Latitude notebooks and OptiPlex desktops to faculty and resells them to incoming students.

Tags: Management, Data Tools, IT Budgeting		   
whitepaper VeriSign EV Certificates Deliver a 48,000% ROI for dwell2008-07-15 Verisign
  One reason for dwell's success is that its people are proactive about heading off obstacles before they impact the revenue stream, such as its early-in-life decision to replace another vendor's SSL Certificates and seal with VeriSign's. dwell didn't even consider anyone other than VeriSign as the new SSL Certificates provider. People see the VeriSign Secured Seal everywhere. It's the brand they've come to trust, far and away the leader in name recognition. After its success with the VeriSign Secured Seal, contemporary furniture supplier dwell of the UK decided to find out how much further help the VeriSign Extended Validation (EV) Certificate would provide. The green bar boosted conversion rates by 13.8% and monthly sales by ?18,000 (over $35,000) - a 48,000% return on investment.

Tags: Authentication - Encryption, IT Budgeting		   
whitepaper VeriSign EV Brings 30% More Conversions for Central Reservation Service2008-07-15 Verisign
  Central Reservation Service (CRS) provides a free hotel reservation service that offers attractive rates and special deals on hotels and resorts, with no prepayment and no booking, change, or cancellation fees. CRS wanted to allay customers' security fears and improve conversion rates. CRS implemented VeriSign Extended Validation (EV) SSL certificates to contend with high abandonment rates. Tests showed that customers who saw EV's green bar converted to purchase 30% more often than those who didn't see the green bar, far exceeding the company's expectations.

Tags: Security Administration, Authentication - Encryption, IT Budgeting		   
whitepaper EV Green Bar Viewers Register 87% More Often for Papercheck2008-07-14 Verisign
  Papercheck is a San Francisco-based company that offers document editing and proofreading services, especially to academic users, over the Internet. The company wanted to eliminate credibility as an issue with customers and get more site visitors to register for services. Papercheck standardized on VeriSign SSL Certificates from the beginning and recently upgraded to Extended Validation (EV) SSL Certificates. In tests, the company found that visitors who see the EV green address bar are 87% more likely to complete the online registration process - the key step in becoming a customer.

Tags: IT Budgeting