Newsletter // GreenerComputing News, Sept. 9, 2009 :: Inside Microsoft's New Green Data Lab, Get Ready for Green IT 2.0, and More...

You're an IT pro, so you're quite familiar with the basics of Green IT. You know the benefits of virtualization, and may be knee deep in a project already. You know about blade servers and how to more efficiently cool data centers. You know the importance of power savings on individual PCs.

Get ready for your world to change. As I write in my blog "Get Ready for Green IT 2.0," there's a new wave of Green IT headed your way, and it's very different from what you know. Instead of looking at the data center or technology alone, it looks at the very heart of a business, its business processes and way it works. It will be integrated deeply into enterprise-level software, including SAP. So if you want to ride the way rather than be swamped by it, check out "Get Ready for Green IT 2.0."

This web-based diagnostic tool is designed specifically to help you to assess how your Green IT initiatives compare with best-in-class implementations.

These three books by Alan Calder -- The Green Agenda, The Green Office, and Compliance for Green IT -- offer a one-stop shop for how and why to make your IT operations more environmentally friendly and energy efficient.

In these tough economic times, sustainability leaders and CIOs are looking for projects that deliver a fast payback and lower their environmental impact. In this session, IT executives and a PC power management expert will discuss their approach to greening IT operations and delivering rapid paybacks for the investment.