Category: Green IT

Mar 31 2010

Recycling electronics as easy as taking out the trash

Ontarians have no excuse for tossing old iPods in the trash as a province-wide recycling program doubles its list of devices and drop-off locations. Torontonians get special curbside treatment and free e-waste bags for tired gadgets.
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Jan 14 2010

GEO Foundation cuts desktop costs by $60K

The Indianapolis.-based school management services provider has rolled out desktop and server virtualization and data storage technologies to tackle a computing infrastructure buckling at the knees. The IT challenges specific to the education sector
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Jan 08 2010

UBC saves $8 million, cuts paper waste by a quarter

With Xerox Canada’s help, the University of British Columbia has embarked upon a $40-million six-year initiative to revamp its printing services. Plus, SAS Institute shares the green IT message it evangelized at COP15, the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen last December
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Nov 13 2009

Get serious about green: David Suzuki

At the Earth Friendly IT Event, hosted by Hitachi Data Systems, environmentalist David Suzuki said the IT sector will be forced to respond if businesses are made to pay a carbon tax. How placing a price on natural resources will change how businesses operate. WITH VIDEO
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Nov 09 2009

Top 10 IT trends for the next 5 years

As users set up shadow IT systems via social networks and mobile devices, IT is poised to strike back with technologies such as client virtualization
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Nov 09 2009

HP laptop cuts power consumption, extends battery life

The Power Assistant feature on HP’s ProBook 6445b and ProBook 6545bcan reduce screen brightness or shut of wireless features to cut power consumption …
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Nov 09 2009

How to run a ‘lights out’ data centre

In an effort to cut cost, the state of Vermont data centre began a two-year program to move from round-the-clock operation to turning off the lights between midnight and 6 a.m. Joe Ng, the data centre’s CIO, shares five key lessons he learned from the implementation
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Nov 09 2009

Green data centre priority for Disney and Verizon

Disney is aiming to cut electricity consumption by 10 per cent by 2013 while Verizon is looking into solar energy…
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Nov 09 2009

Datacentre energy use monitoring often neglected

Unless users create dashboards, they will not be able to reduce energy costs and meet compliance requirements, according to Gartner…
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Nov 09 2009

HP’s ultrathin laptop shed hazardous material

The 5310m lightweight business laptop from HP is powered by Intel’s low-power Celeron processor and is the first laptop by the computer maker that is made without hazardous substances such as polyvinyl chloride plastic and brominated flame retardants…
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