Under pressure: 10 sources pushing CIOs to go green

News July 7, 2008

Now with a stagnating U.S. economy, CIOs need to squeeze every penny out of their IT operations and that means choosing the most efficient servers and desktops as well as data center power supplies and air conditioning ...

Expanding green IT

By Sneha Jha , CIO , 08/14/2008

Squeezed between a woodworking unit and a grimy garage is a tiny billboard workshop in Bangalore that says: 'We Use Eco-Freindly [sic] Plastics'.

Chat: IT needs to think green to save greenbacks

By Julie Bort , Network World , 06/12/2008

Experts offer advice on the cost savings of green IT, outsourcing, protecting IP and making the most out of Web 2.0

5 technologies that will change IT

Podcast August 26, 2008

Larry Quinlan, CIO of Deloitte & Touche LLP, draws on vast IT experience to discuss the tehnologies that will change the industry.

Is 'green IT' real? As real as your bottom line

Eye on the Carriers By Johna Till Johnson , Network World , 09/18/2008

A few weeks back, I wrote about the rise of green tech. Many folks have been asking me how real this trend is.

IT buyers won't sacrifice performance to help environment, study finds

By Jon Brodkin , Network World , 06/30/2008

63% won't sacrifice server performance to lower carbon emissions

Green IT spend to outstrip Y2K within two years

News March 12, 2008

Within two years, most big businesses will be on their way to spending three times as much on systems for carbon accounting and sustainability reporting compared to what they spent on Y2K, according to analyst and ...

VOX - Data center power: the cost reality

By Carolyn Duffy Marsan, Network World, 02/18/08

U.S. data centers rack up billions in electricity costs annually. Here's how to get power costs under control before the energy crisis hits you

A future look at data center power

By Robert Mullins, Network World, 02/18/08

How cloud computing, liquid cooling and proximity communications could one day lower IT’s energy consumption

Doubling of energy use makes data center cooling a hot topic

By Jon Brodkin, NetworkWorld.com, 12/05/07

Virtualization and other ways to reduce your electric bill and save the environment

Companies of all sizes going green

By Nancy Weil, IDG News Service, 08/03/07

It has become a routine part of any given week to hear from IT companies about "green" innovations -- products or prototypes designed to have less of an effect on the environment.

Storage vendors’ power efficiency strategies

Storage Alert Newsletter  By Deni Connor, Network World, 02/06/07

Storage vendors’ power efficiency strategies

IT managers green their data centers

Servers Newsletter  By Jennifer Mears, Network World, 07/05/07

My former colleague Deni Connor, who also was the previous author of this newsletter, and I wrote quite a bit about power and energy concerns in data centers during my time at Network World.

Green computing driven by cold, hard cash

By Jon Brodkin, Network World, 05/24/07

Yahoo, Google aiming to control carbon emissions

The realities of green computing

By Nancy Weil, IDG News Service, 08/03/07

More and more lately, IT vendors trumpet their electronic-waste recycling and "takeback" programs, where manufacturers accept responsibility for the full life cycle of goods they produce.

Podcast: Efficiently cooling and powering big data centers

By Network World Panorama

With everyone talking about global warming, "going green" is the trendy thing to do. For a large data center operator such as Equinix, green is a little harder to do when you're talking about the power requirements of a small city and a lot of heat that must be dissipated. Joining the program to discuss the company's efforts at being more energy efficient is Margie Backaus, chief business officer at Equinix and an employee since Day 1 of the company. (14:02)

Blog: Asset Recovery on the Rise

By Green Your Network on Tue, 07/24/2007 - 11:49am.

In late 2000, Union Bank of California concluded that it was time to refresh its desktop PCs every four years and some IT equipment as often as every 2.

Data center managers see green, battle virtualization hangovers in '08

By Denise Dubie, Network World, 12/14/07

It’s time to face the challenges of managing virtual environments and adopting green computing practices

Podcast: A solar-powered data center

By Network World Panorama

While many data center companies are giving lip-service to being green by buying carbon credits, a new player in the hosting space is claiming to be completely green by using solar power. Mike Corrales, founder and CEO of Greenest Host, explains the company's mission and why it thinks green is the way to go. (12:24)

Power your gadgets by sun and water

By Narasu Rebbapragada, PC World, 01/11/08

While the Consumer Electronics Association announced that it would go green by purchasing 20,000 tons' worth of carbon offsets, a few companies at CES 2008's Sustainable Technologies TechZone introduced new products that use fewer nonrenewable resources from the get-go.

Server farm meets wind farm: How Internet servers may be the killer app for renewable energy

Network Applications News Alert Newsletter  By Jeff Caruso, Network World, 12/06/07

If you want to change the world, it helps if you can build a business case. Bill St. Arnaud last week blogged about how Internet-connected servers and storage might represent an excellent business case for wind and solar power.

Power isn't everything; Green500 offers new supercomputer list

By Sharon Gaudin, Computerworld, 11/19/07

The most energy-efficient supercomputer on the new Green500 List isn't the top machine on the biannual listing of the most powerful supercomputers in the world -- not by a long shot.