- 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

This is an interesting video. Executives from different companies were being asked the same question and their reply ranged from “Definitely happening” to “Total hype”. We think reality is somewhere in between.

What do you think? Is your company planning to allocate budget for green computing?

Community site Green Grid is rated by New York Times as one of the sites IT professionals should put on their must visit list. Rising popularity of Green Grid site shows that Green IT is a cost management initiative. Initiative has less to do with oil price dynamics.
With the economy in shambles and energy prices […]

Mobile service carriers are hopping on green bandwagon faster than the speed at which Angelina Jolie is adopting kids. It’s fast and furious, to add one more cliche. Nokia announced their green campaign ‘Take Back’ recently to promote handset recycling.
Today TMONews is reporting that T-Mobile is ‘leaking’ news of it’s environmentally responsible MOTO W233:
“Exclusively from […]

Nokia is starting 2009 with a big campaign around generating the need to recycle old handsets. Using multiple marketing tools, company plans to take this cause to end users. Recycle initiatives, named Take Back, is aimed to reduce e-waste and to help reduce environmental impact of Nokia’s widely used cell phone handsets. From Nokia […]