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Co-Op America: Greening Businesses Large and Small
The second annual Green Business Conference takes place in Chicago this month; in advance of the gathering GreenBiz Radio sat down with Denise Hamler, director of Co-Op America's green business programs, to learn how the world of green business has grown.
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Energy use is notoriously difficult to calculate in a real-world setting; although SPEC is developing a high-functioning set of benchmarks to manage those numbers, there are ...- Five Simple Ways to Help Your IT Infrastructure Go Green
If you're an IT pro, though, going green may well be new to you, and you may not know where to begin. So here are five simple ways to get started going green. ... - The Difficulty of Gauging Workstation Power Consumption -- and How to Get it Done
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Two Steps Forward
Exxon, the Rockefellers, and the Future of Big Oil
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Corporate America
Fiji Water, tacos and going “green”
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Marketing Green
Reframing Global Warming Across the Political Spectrum
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The Triple Bottom Line
Timberland And Stonyfield Farms--Two Little Guys Showing The Big Guys How It's Done
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Whether they're running a single application or virtualizing an entire company, servers form the backbone of a company's IT skeleton. With concern about cost and environmental impacts of the machines on the rise, manufacturers are pushing forward on new technologies to maximize the efficiency of servers and green their clients' data hubs.
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LONDON -- New research from Sun Microsystems aims to allow firms to measure the carbon footprint of their emails.
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SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Sun Microsystems launched its Eco Advantage Program to help its partners green their IT practices. The program offers assistance with training, assessment, scenario modeling and implementation.
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OAKLAND, Calif. -- Fujitsu Siemens has set a new record for server energy efficiency based on a Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation benchmark.
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OAKLAND, Calif. -- The group, founded by computing giants like Google, Dell and Intel, has teamed up with the EPA's Energy Star program and the China Electronics Energy Saving Committee to expand energy efficiency amongst computer systems.
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There's no one seal of approval that lets you know you've gotten the most energy efficient and least-toxic products on the market, but there are no shortage of online resources to point you in the right direction.
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ROUND ROCK, -- The company's new PowerEdge blade servers target HP and IBM's server businesses, aiming to use less energy for more performance than offerings from those two companies.
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The bottom line is that multiple cores are now universal, so you have no choice but to buy them when upgrading x86-based servers and desktops. But the performance improvement for each will vary.
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Server power consumption is certainly a big part of the problem of data center energy drain, but it only tells part of the story -- there are many other pieces of the puzzle that IT managers have to address in order to save on energy bills and improve their environmental performance.
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With a looming data center energy crisis on the horizon, IT managers can today take proactive steps to meet tomorrow's data center challenges.
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LAKE FOREST, -- Three new hard drives from Western Digital, aimed at increasingly energy-conscious IT managers, promise savings of up to 40 percent over similarly sized drives.
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LONDON, -- 1E launched power management software for Windows Vista users that it claims will help businesses save energy by avoiding idle workstations.
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One of the most effective ways to lower energy use, consolidation has quickly moved out of the realm of pipe-dream into a real-world, practical solution for businesses of all sizes. In his inaugural feature, GreenerComputing's Technology Editor Andrew Binstock explains the ins and outs of server consolidation.
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