Green IT is equal parts social imperative and a business need. This blog explores how to adopt a business-driven green initiative in your IT organization.
The latest C-level officer that organizations are benefiting from is the CGO – Chief Green Officer. Sure, this can be seen as "greenwashing", but when implemented thoughtfully and without trying to pull one over on the public, this is a very important person.
With the advent of Green IT there are numerous industries and jobs that will be created. Perhaps one of the first will be the Green Sherpa -- someone to guide you to the summit of your Green IT mountain. We had the great opportunity to speak with one such Sherpa last week -- Dave O’Hara of Green Datacenter Blog.
Currently the U.S. doesn’t have a national law governing e-waste. As politicians try to pass legislation, many efforts simply "run out of gas." Thankfully, lack of consistent federal legislation doesn't mean that action hasn't already been taken.
When we think of consolidation in terms of Green IT, our first thought is of consolidating servers. This is, to be sure, the star of Green IT. However there’s a supporting actor who has it in him to steal virtualization’s scenes. We’re talking about storage area networks (SANs).
Twenty years ago Sting was going on and on about saving the rain forest. Every time you’d turn around, Sting was with some group griping about deforestation. It was easy enough for many to tune out Sting and his "save the rain forest" buddies, but it turns out we should have been listening.
There is a certain feng shui to laying out your datacenter. It has nothing to do with putting a palm plant in an east-facing window or organizing the racks so that they all face the door. Reorganizing your datacenter can help reduce the amount of money you spend to cool it.
The last few years have seen an explosion of general and IT-related technologies touting to help an organization be greener. This is good news for all of us however, it turns out that many of the green products and solutions aren’t the cheapest options, and it may take some time before the scales of finance tip in green’s favor. So how does an organization go green – you know, do the right thing for planet – while doing the right thing for the bottom line?
Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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