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Let’s be real. It is sort of difficult to test the side-by-side claims of one green data center practice or technology against another. So, Hewlett-Packard is trying to make it a bit easier for both is own services team and its customers: The company is dedicating a portion of its 50,000-square-foot Fort Collins, Colorado, data [...]

I have had many a conversation with managers at small-ish (or REALLY small) companies, who insist that they can’t address some of the energy efficiency practices that I write about because they are leasing real estate and don’t control overall management of their electricity consumption. I think that excuse is becoming thinner with each passing [...]

If greening mobile gadgets is a priority for you — either individually or from a corporate standpoint — there are two new reports that will help you apply this thinking to one of the most “disposable” of all gadgets, your mobile phone.
I’m obviously being facetious when I call mobile phones disposable, but the rate at [...]

Product lifecycle assessment software has been around since businesses first started using technology to run their companies better. Now, many of these applications are being updated with sustainability in mind.
Which ones matter? There’s a new report out from market research firm Verdantix that identifies 18 “smart innovators” that are addressing issues such as green materials, [...]

We all know that utility companies around the world are knocking themselves out to make smart grid investments. But which ones are leading the way, especially in the all important area of demand-side management? Well, Zpryme Research is serving up a list, based on the level of investment (along with megawatt-hours managed and revenue generated). [...]

SAP is absolutely one of the more transparent companies in high-tech when it comes to corporate sustainability initiatives, and its 2010 sustainability report offers a great example.
If you visit the site’s page specific to energy efficiency (one of SAP’s biggest success stories), you will discover that in 2010, the company used 791 gigawatt-hours of [...]

SAP is absolutely one of the more transparent companies in high-tech when it comes to corporate sustainability initiatives, and its 2010 sustainability report offers a great example.
If you visit the site’s page specific to energy efficiency (one of SAP’s biggest success stories), you will discover that in 2010, the company used 791 gigawatt-hours of [...]

For the past 10 months, apparently, IBM has been working with the City University of New York (CUNY) on analytics software specifically focused on helping schools in the New York public school system better-manage their energy consumption. But, frankly, I don’t see any reason why this technology couldn’t be applied to other public school systems [...]

It has begun: The strategic consolidation of the energy and carbon management software category got its first high-profile example this week in the form of IBM’s proposed acquisition of Las Vegas-based TRIRIGA.
With literally dozens if not hundreds of smaller software developers innovating in this burgeoning applications category, it is not surprising that IBM is staking [...]