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Green IT: 10 Surprising Facts presented by Fujitsu Siemens Computers (FSC)
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Today is a video day. NASCIO, community organization representing all state CIOs, have this good video urging member states to adopt Green IT.
This is well timed to benefit from Obama’s renewable energy intiative.

Dell partnered with CIO magazine to host event designed to provide CIOs and other IT decision makers with insight into energy efficient computing strategies.
In a moderated question and answer session with CIO publisher emeritus Gary Beach, Michael discussed various aspects of the greening of the IT landscape. (See highlights from his comments in vlog below.) […]

Scientific progress is full of skepticism. Diversity in opinion we see in global warming debate is one example. Scientific process itself is a data driven journey.
Have we established the need for Green Computing as a sure shot way of reducing our climate footprint? Hardly!
All we have achieved is a framework […]

Enjoy this teaser video from meettheboss.tv. Alain Benoist is a CTO of Societe Generale’

Full video is available on funny sounding website - meettheboss.tv. Apparently they are using teaser YouTube video to increase site registration.
To see full video you need to sign up and to sign up one has to cross both Nile and Sahara!

This is old news but more relevant now than it was announced years ago. US Green Building Council (USGBC) and Adobe had teamed to streamline the LEED rating system documentation and certification process. LEED is a leading certification process which builders need in order to claim green building status.
Adobe, with it’s suite of tools, had […]

Talk about great idea and horrible timing. Economy is weak to say it mildly. Consumers are stretched and companies are scaling back in an unprecedented way. So who cares for new shiny green widget? At the Mobile World Congress, going on in Barcelona, Spain, Nokia and Motorola are showcasing  green mobile handsets.
In a marketplace, which […]

The 2009 Good Jobs, Green Jobs National Conference featured a Green Jobs Expo showcasing the many pathways to green jobs and careers, which surprisingly didn’t have any of the blue chip IT companies!
It definitely can’t be lack of awareness considering its hype everywhere, so what’s the deal here?
For example companies like HP, IBM, Cisco and […]

One of the big unknowns we have in 2009 is the fate of green IT budget. Is it there as part of the budget? If yes, then is it going to survive the worst recession since World War II?. We don’t know all this. We are in cut-to-the-bone phase now. I won’t be surprised […]

IBM runs the world’s largest commercial technology infrastructure, with more than 8 million-square feet of data centers in six continents to its name, so if it implements its Green Initiatives in a  planned manner ,it surely will assuage the carbon footprints in  large extents and as a matter of fact it has pretty much succeeded […]