More and more organizations are coming around to the idea that Data centers present good opportunity to reduce energy cost. Data centers have more than 10 million computer servers which on average consumes 15 times more energy per sq foot.
Association To Save Energy has good set of policies and recommendations for migrating to energy efficient […]

Viridity as in dictionary means green color or pigment; the quality or condition of being green and the company justifies the meaning. The company was founded in the year 2007. It’s main aim was to make the datacenters more eco-friendly and effective.

Since datacenters are the integral part of any organisation so it needs the most […]

BREEAM (BRE Environmental Assessment Method) is the leading and most widely used environmental assessment method for buildings around the world, with over 110,000 buildings certified and over half a million registered.These Buildings can be used to assess the environmental performance of any type of building (new and existing).It sets the standard for best practice in […]

- Apple revamped Mini product line with greener core - Apple claims the computer is super-efficient, using 45 percent less power at idle than its predecessor.
- Recently concluded DataWorld conference effectively replaced Green IT with Energy Efficiency. All about cost savings!
- Green Grid - companies are working to develop metric to measure datacenter efficiency. Green […]

I was reading HP CEO Michael Hurd’s biographical piece on Fortune magazine and it struck me how cost conscious HP management is. Article attributes this culture to Hurd’s mid-western background.
In that context I read this announcement by HP that the two leading visual effects companies have gone with HP blade server to drive […]

Continuing with our effort to share good quality video with our readers. We found this interview of James Governor by Adam Bomb very fascinating. Lot of hype surrounding Green IT is related to loaded buzz words. James clear message related to cost savings and applying common sense makes great sense.
Watch it:

Takeaway for executives is to […]

Mumbai, India, based IT outsourcing firm Patni Computers has been awarded the prestigious LEED certification for its green IT-BPO center.
Building, based in Delhi, named Patni Knowledge Center is the second largest platinum rated building in the world and first in India.
LEED rating system was set up in the US in 1993, and focuses on […]

Now this is interesting. Harvard University physicist, Alex Wissner-Gross, has calculated environmental impact of a typical Google search query and results are not something Al Gore, famous Google fan, will appreciate. TimesOnline reports:

While millions of people tap into Google without considering the environment, a typical search generates about 7g of CO2 Boiling a kettle generates […]

Companies are gearing up for large investments in green computing intiatives. These recent news announcements reflect that -
- OMG to Acquire Green Computing Impact Organization (GCIO). OMG had been working with GCIO on maturity model -
Prior to the merger, GCIO and OMG already had a relationship for work on […]