With a score of 72 out of a possible 100, Cisco boosts its score to stay at the top of the heap, while Ericsson and Fujitsu also made big strides in applying IT solutions to greenhouse gas emissions to land in second and third place.
The power management company's CIO explains how it has put its own technology to work in its data centers, saving tens of thousands of dollars per year in energy costs while lowering greenhouse gas emissions.
The Climate Savers Computing Initiative will expand its push for more energy efficiency IT beyond computers with a new workgroup focused on networking equipment.
The third annual CDW Energy Efficient IT report finds that three-quarters of IT professionals have put efficiency on their to-do lists, although some tools and concept for green IT have not yet made their way into common usage.
More than 70 companies led by Intel have launched the Open Data Center Alliance to develop the hardware and software requirments needed for future cloud interoperability.
Computing and communication companies like IBM, Xerox, SAP and Cisco recognize sustainability and climate change as opportunities, but their industry as a whole has not integrated those issues into their core businesses.
A report from the Technology CEO Council has found seven initiatives -- from green data centers to paperless offices -- that will create billions of dollars a year in savings at the federal level.
With the release of a newly ratified standard on energy efficient ethernet, Broadcom has released a line of products that meet the new standard as well as make older equipment compatible and capable of saving 70 percent of energy used.
The new software program from the makers of EnergyCenter gives CIOs and data center managers a fast and thorough analysis of power utilization in new or existing data centers.