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Six Technology Tactics to Promote Corporate Social Responsibility

Six Technology Tactics to Promote Corporate Social Responsibility

By on February 7, 2012 in Enterprise Applications, ERP, Supply Chain Management, White Papers

Businesses are turning more and more of their attention to corporate social responsibility and going green – reducing carbon emissions, conserving energy, and creating a more sustainable supply chain. This white paper presents how you can use the technology systems you already have to help your business promote corporate social responsibility. Download Whitepaper

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Japan Betters PUE at Data Centers

By on April 14, 2010 in Breaking News, Community Manager, CRM/ERP/ETL, Data Center, Green Technology, Information Technology, Software

Although the power usage effectiveness (PUE) metric is not without its problems, it is the de facto standard for measuring energy efficiency in a data center. Japan’s Green IT Promotion Council  wants to improve on PUE with its own metric, data center performance per energy (DPPE). The council (GIPC) wants to make this metric the [...]

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Green Computing: New World Record in Energy-Efficient Data Processing

By on March 30, 2010 in Community Manager

Scientists from Frankfurt´s Goethe University and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) developed a system that substantially reduces the energy consumption for processing huge amounts of data. They improved over the power efficiency of the former record holders from Stanford University by a factor of three to four. The record is listed in the "sort [...]

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Enterprise Sustainability, Symantec’s Way

By on January 14, 2010 in Community Manager, Data Center, Green Technology

I met Jose Iglesias of Symantec when I hosted one of the sessions at the Green Software Unconference in August 2009.I talked to him briefly then and found out that his team was doing a lot in the green software area as well as in the overall sustainability work at Symantec. I finally had a [...]

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The Green IT Perspective on Data Centers, Cloud Computing, and Sustainability

By on December 16, 2009 in Cloud Computing, Community Manager, Data Center, Green Technology, Information Technology, IT Compliance, On-Demand, Virtualization

As 2009 draws to a close, I would like to ponder each element in the title of this blog. The information sources are my blog posts and others’. I will talk about data center market trends in this blog and treat the rest of the subjects later. Regulatory pressure on data centers The U.S. House [...]

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An Unconference About Green Software: Exploring Its Meaning and Applications

By on August 17, 2009 in Community Manager, Green Technology, Software

The Green Software Unconference is scheduled for August 19 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. Since this is an unconference, there is no set agenda or program. But its theme is clear: What is green software and what can we do with it?

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Keizai Society: “Green Technology and Collaborative Business Opportunities”

By on July 21, 2009 in Community Manager, Data Center, Green Technology

Zen Kishimoto is our newest guest blogger. His posts will appear here weekly on Tek-Tips. Zen writes about data centers, green IT and emerging technology developments in Japan. In this post, he writes about a presentation he saw last week about solar energy and the issues in making it an effective energy resource. When I [...]

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