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Fans of the TV series Amazing Race were treated to a disturbing and disheartening spectacle Sunday night, as competitors used cutters, hammers, screwdrivers, and their bare hands to tear apart electronics, throw them haphazardly into piles, exposing themselves, onlookers, and the environment to dangerous toxins. All this in the name of supposed recycling. Perhaps the show should be renamed Amazing Waste?
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Looking to green your IT infrastructure? If Microsoft is to be believed, making the move to Windows 7 when it's released will go a long way toward doing that.
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When it comes to going green, IT pros care very little about green procurement issues and getting vendors to create more energy-efficient hardware. That is one of the surprising conclusions in a recent report by Gartner.
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Plenty of technology and IT vendors tell you they're the greenest companies on the planet. Apple, though, recently updated its Web site to reveal in great detail exactly where its greenhouse emissions come from --- and to provide information about the the environmental impacts of its products.
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Cooling the data center represents a big IT cost and contributes significantly to carbon emissions. But plans are afoot to cool data centers with cold water from the world's oceans and lakes.
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The Smart Grid will certainly help greeen the planet. But increasingly, IT vendors are looking to it for another kind of green --- cash. Multiple billions of dollars are at stake annually.
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Private enterprise has made Green IT a centerpiece of its overall IT strategy, but that isn't the case with U.S. colleges. According to a recent study done by IT solutions company CDW-G, less than 25 percent of IT pros in higher education said that saving energy is "very important."
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By now, most IT pros are familiar with Green IT technologies such as virtualization, and more efficiently cooling data centers. But consultants say that a new wave of Green IT technologies are on the way --- call it Green IT 2.0.
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Want a simple way to help green your computer? If you're a Mac user, upgrade to Snow Leopard. Upgrading to that operating system may save plenty of money and electricity every year, says a prominent blogger.
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The next big corporate C-level job will be the Chief Green Officer (CGO). And if IT staff plays their cards right, they'll walk right into that high-paying, high-visibility, high-payoff job. Here's why.
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Google's efforts to make its data centers as energy efficient as possible have some arguing that Gmail is the greenest of them all.
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When people think green IT, they think about technologies such as virtualization. But one Linux proponent claims that Open Source software such as Linux is even more key to green IT -- and she has plenty of good points, even if some of them are stretches.
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Looking to get the most energy savings out of your data center? The newest technique, called 'power-capping,' may be your answer, even though at first blush it sounds like a very scary proposition.
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The U.S. is well behind South Korea in green IT, and could well fall even further behind if action isn't taken soon, warns a new report. Even in areas where the U.S. holds a clear advantage, such as cloud computing, it could give up its lead.
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When you think Cisco, you generally think routers, not power plants. But increasingly, Cisco sees its future in the Smart Grid via a backdoor route -- selling data center hardware to electric utilities. And that's good news for anyone wanting to green their data center.
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There have been increasing concerns that the Smart Grid may be vulnerable to cyber attack. Now Ontario's information and privacy commissioner warns that the grid may represent a significant privacy threat as well.
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There's been plenty of evidence recently that the Smart Grid could become a serious security risk for IT and households. Now comes something potentially just as troubling: A U.S. Congressman warns that the grid can be taken down by an electromagnetic weapon.
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If truly green data centers are ever to become a reality, IT departments will have to feel some pain if they don't reduce their energy use --- and reap the benefits if they do. Today, though, too often, IT departments don't even pay their own energy bills, as a recently released survey found. In order to green IT, that has to change.
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The Smart Grid has gotten plenty of hype and little action, but in the last few days there are serious signs that it may finally be at the tipping point.
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Walmart's move to include green labels on all of its products that detail such things as the amount of energy used to make them is an excellent model for what should be done for Green IT. To date, although there are several green standards for computers and IT, none really hit the mark.
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IBM, long known for making many of the fastest supercomputers in the world, has another supercomputer accolade: It dominates the Green500 supercomputer list, with a whopping 18 of the world's greenest 20 supercomputers.
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The agreement just reached by the G8 to reduce greenhouse emissions may not be a particularly strong one, but it will inevitably lead to increased U.S. attempts to halt global warming. And that means that your data center may be in the cross-hairs.
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Recently a Cisco official was quoted as saying that the Smart Grid will be 1,000 times as large as the Internet. That quote, says the Cisco official, was inaccurate -- but she has plenty of good reasons why the Smart Grid will dwarf the Internet.
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More bad news on the security front for the Smart Grid: The Wall Street Journal reports that the electric utility industry is negotiating with a defense contractor to determine whether spies from China and elsewhere have already hacked into the U.S. power grid.