IBM Joins the Club and Announces ‘Big Green’ Initiative.

IBM has begun a $1 billion-per-year project to design ‘green’ data centers that consume less energy. – Deni Connor, Network World. Good for IBM – Running your servers and personal computers, under-utilising hardware, using old servers, not optimising server space and virtual servers all use energy that creates a carbon footprint. For example, a moderate size server has about the same annual carbon footprint as a gas-guzzling SUV getting 15 miles-to-the-gallon. Reducing an organisation’s carbon footprint is not just the environmentally correct thing to do, it’s also a way to save money. * 3M reduced its carbon footprint by 37 percent and have saved more than $190 million. * Canon’s energy efficient products yielded savings of $250 million for its customers. * IBM saved $791 million by reducing emissions 37.8 percent through energy conservation measures. * California, the world’s sixth largest economy, has already saved itself $20 billion in electricity and natural gas expenditures and by 2011 forecasts saving $57 billion more. UsedCisco.com Green Your Network…Reuse Resources: IT ‘Carbon Footprints’ Waste Billions– by PAUA INTERFACE LTD IBM Announces ‘Big Green’ Initiative – by Deni Connor, Network World