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IT Sustainability Insights and Imperatives | 2009-05-01 | |
| Going green is golden. From emerging government mandates and regulation to increased consumer and press attention, the environmental movement is upon people. Terms like carbon footprint, sustainability, environmentally friendly, and renewables are becoming common vernacular. And it's not just hype. Investors are putting their money where their mouth is, ponying up more than $6 billion in the U.S. in clean-tech venture capital. "Indeed so-called green technology - appears to be blooming, even if the world economy is in wilt mode," according to a recent eCommerce Times paper. | |||
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Beyond Power Consumption: What It Really Means to Go Green | 2009-05-01 | IDG (International Data Group) |
| "Going Green" has become one of the most pervasive slogans in today's commercial marketplace. Growing awareness among policymakers, who are introducing more stringent environmental regulation and guidelines, and consumers, who are adapting buying habits and lifestyles toward more sustainable choices, is prompting businesses across the globe to enhance product sets and to build marketing strategies around the new metric of green credentials. Whereas the extent to which businesses are embracing going green varies from company to company and from segment to segment, the directional path toward greater greenness is evident.
Tags: IT Budgeting |
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Achieve Business and Environmental Goals: Using HP Web Jetadmin Functionality and HP Eco Solutions Reports to Reduce Environmental Impact | 2009-05-01 | Hewlett-Packard (HP) |
| HP Web Jetadmin software offers business intelligence capabilities, as part of the Enterprise Edition software service that helps IT managers assess printing behaviors and lowers their organization's environmental footprint. HP Eco Solutions reports enable measurement of environmentally relevant capabilities, settings and use patterns. IT can use the results to spotlight opportunities to decrease energy and paper consumption - for a printer, group of printers or an entire fleet. HP Web Jetadmin then makes it easy to establish settings across networked printers to reduce costs and manage the impact of printing and imaging. This paper shows how to use select HP Web Jetadmin capabilities and the HP Eco Solutions reports to drive environmental initiatives forward in organization.
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Greening Your IT Infrastructure | 2009-04-24 | Microsoft |
| IT executives at enterprises across myriad industries are learning - and sharing with peers - the ROI, efficiency improvements and other benefits of a dynamic infrastructure supporting environmentally sustainable operations. With Microsoft infrastructure optimization, including Windows Vista Enterprise and Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP), organizations benefit from a nimble, powerful and dynamic IT architecture. Through green IT architecture design, energy-efficient power management settings and centralized desktop control, IT departments can lead the way to environmentally sustainable operations, bringing substantial cost savings.
Tags: Desktop Client OS, IT Budgeting |
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Winning With Environmental Strategies: How & Why Businesses Should Adopt Green Practices | 2009-04-17 | AMI-Partners |
| This paper is aimed at small business owners who are interested in learning more about green business practices that will help increase productivity and efficiencies throughout their business. This paper provides specific how-to advice for each best practice cited so that one can immediately implement ideas one finds most compelling. | |||
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Green IT Project Report: Consolidation and Virtualization in x86 Environments | 2009-04-08 | 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 |
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Preventative Maintenance Strategy for Data Centers | 2009-04-08 | American Power Conversion (APC) |
| In the broadening data center cost-saving and energy efficiency discussion, data center physical infrastructure preventive maintenance (PM) is sometimes neglected as an important tool for controlling TCO and downtime. This white paper describes the types of PM services that can help safeguard the uptime of data centers and IT equipment rooms. Various PM methodologies and approaches are discussed. Recommended practices are suggested.
Tags: Data Infrastructure, IT Budgeting, IT Infrastructure, Data Infrastructure, IT Budgeting |
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Fujitsu's Sustainable Business Heritage | 2009-03-23 | Fujitsu |
| Fujitsu works at sustainable business management. Through lasting economic, environmental and social contributions it will fulfill corporate citizenship responsibilities and help to make a better world. For Fujitsu, sustainable business management means that through activities, products and services it will contribute to a better society, now and into the future.
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Got Paper?: Go Green Tips for the Public Transportation Industry | 2009-03-18 | EMC |
| The public transportation industry is dominated by paper-intensive processes. Employees are inundated with massive amounts of data, drawings, and human resources documentation that must meet internal and external compliance requirements. A content management solution from EMC and OzNet Systems will enable to save time and money by effectively protecting and easily managing one of the most precious assets - the documents. The presenters explain why capturing and electronically storing paper makes sense for the organization - both economically and environmentally. Attendee will find out how to implement a content management solution that transforms paper into electronic information that is easily secured, retrieved, and archived. And, attendee will learn about the impact of state and federal regulations - and how to comply.
Tags: IT Budgeting |
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Business Service Efficiency: The Key to Green IT and Profitability | 2009-03-17 | BMC Software |
| The days of simply adding hardware to meet the growing demands of business for IT services are over. IT can no longer afford to pay the resulting energy bill. That's why Green IT has emerged as a major issue. One can't simply throw out current hardware and replace it with green hardware. Very few, if any, IT organizations can afford such wholesale replacement. There is a far more practical and effective approach. Begin with a simple step that requires a fraction of the capital outlay, and then progress incrementally to continually improve efficiency. Don't limit vision to just improving energy efficiency.
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