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 […]

Inspite of the hiring being slowed down by recession, green-collar jobs are growing double than that of traditional jobs. Clean Energy Economy study which is billed as the U.S.’s first state-by-state survey of green-collar jobs states that Green-collar hiring took a hit during the current recession and may accelerate beyond its 1998-2007 growth rate of […]

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 […]

AT&T has a simple six step check for green computing

Use an LCD instead of a CRT;
Consider a laptop;
Kill the screen saver;
Use your computer’s sleep function;
Buy Energy Star compliant machines;
Recycle your old system.

Note: Windows Vista use can be detrimental to your productivity. Stick to Windows XP

- 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 […]

While we are talking about numbers. Here is a random sprinkling of numbers I collected from different surveys.
The Association of Energy Engineers (AEE), a nonprofit professional society of over 9,500 members, issued a survey to its members to determine the need for Green Jobs.
Survey Results:
* 41% of the energy professionals who were surveyed plan […]

Forrestor Research, Inc. has introduced green IT baseline calculator , online tool to help IT professionals calculate their green IT baseline.
Doug Washburn explains how this baseline calculator can help in quantifying Green IT implementation practice:

* Guide your greening efforts with solid data. Avoid guessing about what to green first by […]

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 […]

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.) […]