http://www.greencio.com Sat, 26 Dec 2009 21:52:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.greencio.com/2009/12/data-centers-one-big-energy-sink/ 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 ... http://www.greencio.com/2009/06/green-collar-jobs-are-still-growing/ 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 ... http://www.greencio.com/2009/05/viridity-managing-datacenter-in-a-greener-way/ 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 ... http://www.greencio.com/2009/04/digital-realty-trust-adopts-breeam-standards/ 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 :) http://www.greencio.com/2009/03/att-tech-channel-green-computing/ - 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 ... http://www.greencio.com/2009/03/weekly-roundup-apple-more-green-now-green-grid-updates-website-datacenter-world-touts-energy-efficiency/ 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 ... http://www.greencio.com/2009/03/green-it-survey-results/ 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 ... http://www.greencio.com/2009/03/forrestor-rolls-out-green-calculator-for-green-it/ Do Dell’s products rightfully deserved to be called green? And are they the only champion of computer industry whose mantra once used to be build more powerful computers/servers and gorge up hordes of power. So let's see. One of Dell’s big pushes was to build laptops whose displays used LED backlights. ... http://www.greencio.com/2009/03/dell-shows-its-green-stripes-with-plenty-of-promises/ 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 ... http://www.greencio.com/2009/03/hp-blade-servers-power-the-next-generation-of-visual-entertainment/