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Finding new ways to tap energy savings in the data center and participating in demand response programs.
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What are the best energy-management practices for keeping a lid on the ever-growing costs of running a compute facility?
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Cloud computing could redefine the way we think about business ethics and sustainability. Here's how the cloud could affect two of our biggest sustainability challenges: climate change and human rights.
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Schneider's acquisition of EnergyCenter 2.0 software provides data center operators visibility over both IT and facility operations.
by Derek Top
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At Big Blue's annual 'Connect' analyst event, the company gave a glimpse at how its Smarter Planet initiative is driving business opportunities, and mapped the next hurdles it will need to overcome.
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Cutting energy use across the enterprise can be so simple, and so cost-effective that it's astounding there is still any of this low-hanging fruit waiting to be plucked. Here are eight case studies showing what's possible.
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The world's largest semiconductor producer says its newest data center will save 2.21 million kilowatt-hours of electricity and eliminate 1,350 tons of carbon emissions a year.
by Derek Top
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Google's Energy Czar, Bill Wiehl, walks us through the company's new level of transparency around energy and the environment.
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Sharon Nunes, the head of IBM's Smarter Cities initiative, personifies the kinds of evolution that IBM has undergone over the past 100 years.
by Ann Goodman
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The company has created a new type of modular structure designed to cut the costs and deployment times of powering corporate data centers, designed to take up just four parking spots' worth of space.
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For all the forward-looking solutions on offer, and just on the horizon, at the kickoff of the Uptime Institute's annual Symposium this week, there are a number of very old problems that remain to be solved.
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The convergence of the two historically siloed departments comes as the major IT-industry players -- IBM, SAP, Cisco and Accenture, among others -- have strengthened their offerings to align corporate sustainaibility and financial goals.
by Chip Pieper
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Green IT initiatives have tended to be middle-range priorities for companies, but that's changing, especially with IT's growing role in helping businesses manage energy use in their buildings and facilities, according to a recent survey of executives in the U.S., U.K. and Germany.
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Schneider Electric has acquired Lee Technologies of Fairfax, Va., in a move that is expected to buttress Schneider's formidable business in data centers by bringing in a firm that specializes in providing services for the facilities.
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Facebook's Open Compute Project will allow the IT industry to access the design secrets behind the social network's new data center in Prineville, Ore., which the company says uses 38 percent less power than existing server farms.
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From faster, more energy efficient coding to greening their data centers, as well as bourgeoning green projects on campus, Facebook is finally pulling back the veil on how it's reducing its environmental impacts.
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Although improving energy efficiency can be as simple as gathering low-hanging fruit, smart companies will take efficiency projects far beyond the usual suspects.
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IBM and Schneider Electric are joining forces to provide new smarter buildings solutions that combine robust data collection and powerful analytics, enabling owners to better manage energy use at their facilities and obtain greater savings. The partnership was one several announcements about new offerings, software, services and tools from IBM in its Smarter Planet campaign.<br />
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In the newest campaign against the social network's new data center in Oregon, Greenpeace has created a short animation mocking the company's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg.
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Panduit Corp.'s new headquarters is a showcase of green design and advanced technology by the firm and two other leading companies that develop products for more energy efficient lighting and flooring in data centers and other facilities.
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When he left the field of public accounting, Jeremy Dommu thought he'd also left behind the world of office cubicles. But he happily -- and proudly -- works in one as an EDF Climate Corps fellow as he helps PHH Arval search for energy efficiency opportunities.
by Jeremy Dommu
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Fannie Mae's 247,000 square foot data center, which was the first certified by the U.S. Green Building Council in 2005, has saved the agency $1.7 million in energy use.
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The kickoff to IBM's third-annual Pulse expo showcased how the company has its eyes on making the world's cities connected, automated and efficient, through hardware and software innovations and new partnerships with Johnson Controls and Ricoh.
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Symantec Corp.'s new State of the Data Center report shows that mid-sized data centers are more likley to adopt tehcnologies liek virtualization and cloud computing than smaller and larger enterprises. However, security, backup, recovery and data protection are taking precendence as companies combat staff and budget restrictions.<br />
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AT&T has established a corporate post for a director of energy to take the reins of the firm's energy management drive -- and named its first appointee to the job.