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At the morning sessions of the first conference aimed at bringing together green and IT, much of the discussion focused on addressing the challenges faced by measuring, managing and securing environmental data.
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With help from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, a coalition of groups is asking the U.S. Green Building Council for LEED certification standards for datacenters.
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The new tool offers enhanced data-capturing that gathers mid-sized companies' energy use and greenhouse gas emissions and helps to focus efforts on cost savings and emissions reductions.
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IBM will build three energy efficient datacenters in a $3.1 million project for Religare Enterprises Limited of India.
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Information technology has been both a hindrance and help to the environment -- on the one hand, dematerializing commerce and increasing efficiencies; on the other, becoming a voracious consumer of energy. But green IT is on the rise in many companies, largely due to its huge cost-saving potential and quick payback times.
by Joel Makower
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Sun Microsystems cut the ribbon on its largest green IT project, a revamped and consolidated datacenter that is expected to slash electricity costs by $1 million a year, reduce CO2 emissions by 11,000 metric tons annually, shrink the company's carbon footprint by 6 percent and save 675,000 gallons of water each year.
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NetApp's $1.4 million rebate — the largest of its kind awarded so far by PG&E — for construction of its new data center and its certification as a green business mark the latest recognition for the 16-year-old firm and its eco-friendly efforts.
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Sometimes bad news can be good news: The economic meltdown may be the best thing that ever happened to Green IT. I recently interviewed Dr. Albert Esser, Vice President of Data Center Infrastructure at Dell, and Dell's resident green guru, and he explains why tough times can be good for greening the data center.
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Going green with a data center is no longer merely good public relations, or just a money-saving project. It's about to become imperative for a corporation's survival. That's the inescapable conclusion of a recent study that predicts nearly two-thirds of data centers will run out of power capacity by 2011.
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After completing a three-year refresh of its technology, Hewlett-Packard has cut its total IT spending in half, saving $1 billion per year; the company's Critical Facilities group can help companies of all stripes achieve similar results.
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The Web-hosting company 1&1 has put a new twist on smart re-use: It's building one of the biggest data centers in Europe at the site of a former nuclear fuel facility, and making the data center exceedingly green.
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As a self-declared 'work in progress', the software solutions giant lays out its overall environmental impact and reaches out through the Web to develop strategies for a greener future.
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One of the biggest problems enterprises face greening IT is political and organizational --- what incentive is there for IT professionals to reduce data center power use if the electricity budget falls under the facilities department? Increasingly, IT pros will come up with this answer: They should run the facilities department.
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The computer manufacturer has said it will double the amount of renewable energy it uses over the next four years, and is adding a host of green energy and green IT projects to its near-future plans.
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Hosting company The Planet has implemented a company-wide efficiency program to reduce lighting and HVAC consumption.
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The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers recently launched two guides to move these structures toward reduced energy consumption.
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Hiring a C-level 'Energy Czar' position and creating a corporate average data-center efficiency metric are among some of the top-level changes companies should adopt in order to make serious reductions in energy use and greenhouse gas emissions, according to a report released by the Uptime Institute and McKinsey.
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As IT needs take up an ever-bigger part of companies' energy bills and purchasing budget, the costs of maintaining computers based on their performance per dollar are growing exponentially. Ken Brill of the Uptime Institute spoke with GreenBiz Radio about the surprisingly easy ways to drop IT costs while improving performance.
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From large-scale data centers to every desktop it owns, here's how the search giant's quest for energy efficiency gets results.