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Green computing or green IT, refers to environmentally sustainable IT. The goals of green computing are to reduce the use of hazardous materials, maximize energy efficiency during the product’s lifetime, and promote the recyclability or biodegradability of defunct products.
Energy efficient IT can reduce greenhouse gas emissions and save energy costs, without compromising on features, style or comfort. Insight Blog discusses the new generation of ‘Green’ and ‘Energy Efficient’ products and finds out how they can pay for themselves fast and offer environmentally friendly benefits
The Power Struggle
With organisations failing to put their houses in order facing potentially significant levies, a number of pundits, including Mark King, Director of datacentre innovator, 2bm, see power consumption as another vital technology battleground for
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Bring a little green to your office
It’s easy to make the technology in your office a bit greener if you apply a little common sense and know what to look for. The simplest step is printing on both sides of the
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Got those Green blues?
With environmental issues gaining pace, corporate social responsibility rising inexorably up the commercial agenda, and industry under ever-increasing pressure to keep up, are some businesses mistaking greenness for naivety?
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Cutting Costs with Environmental IT
Green may or may not be the new black – but there’s no doubt that more environmentally conscious IT deployments can help put IT budgets back in the black and make a major impact
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Get Creative with the W.E.E.E Directive
Time was that organisations felt roughly the same way about their old PCs and servers as anyone that hasn’t had a pre-frontallobotomy feels about former Big Brother contestants– we didn’t know where they ended
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10 Ways Your IT Function is Wasting Money
10 basic ways your IT function is probably wasting money…recycling, purchasing, networking and more
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Green IT Tip: Super-Power Get-Realistic Wastage-Is Atrocious
With every other facet of the datacentre rapidly firming up and slimming down, power infrastructures need to shape up or ship out too
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Sustainable IT…Green Technology Is Never that Easy
At one point you could be forgiven tuning out of the forecasts and marketing that surrounded it, there seemed to be endless noise, endless green-angled products and an awful lot of hype
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How Government Incentives fall short of encouraging Green IT
Under pressure to adopt greener technologies, organisations looking for encouragement from Government financial incentives and subsidies will find there’s currently a lot more stick than carrot, writes Christine Horton
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The Impact of Green Technology on IT Budgets
Green may or may not be the new black – but there’s no doubt that more environmentally conscious IT deployments can help put IT budgets back in the black and make a major impact
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