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Retailers go green but customers don't care

Many retailers struggle to quantify ROI on sustainability

Green IT: Train staff to think about sustainability

If you're running a green IT shop or developing green business initiatives, you need staff with relevant skills. But you may have to train them yourself.

Five critical questions to ask your data centre vendor

Is your data centre up-to-date, secure and energy efficient?

Five reasons not to get an ebook reader

Kindle and colour screens might sound attractive, but think before you buy

How we picked the top Green IT organisations

What it takes to reduce power demands and use technology to create energy efficiencies

Top 12 most popular green IT products

Cut energy costs, boost data centre efficiency and promote green IT practices

Forrester: Three ways to cut data centre energy costs

Cut server energy costs by up to 65% with these pointers

Green IT: a critical industry practice

IT organisations need to embark on green initiatives and advantage from the outcomes: key message of SiTF’s conference.

Rare earth shortage may hurt tech industry

Raw material shortages may move prices, manufacturing jobs, recycling projects and even pollution round the world

Yahoo data centre chief draws lessons from auto industry

Self-cooled data centres based on century-old factory design, says Scott Noteboom

The necessity of green IT

Power costs are no laughing matter

The most dangerous jobs in technology

And you thought being a network admin was fraught with danger

Burning Man's open source mobile phone system could save the world

Solar-powered, low-cost, open source mobile network could revolutionise coverage in underprivileged and off-grid spots

Turn unused desktop cycles into fast server clusters

Cycle Computing wants to make automated clustering technology viable in cloud computing services like Amazon EC2

Green Christmas gift ideas for do-gooders

Even during lean times, nobody wants to receive gifts that create clutter. These presents fund good causes and reduce waste

Cisco Unified Computing System data centre tour: Green and virtualised

Texas DC1 and DC2 relies on Cisco's own UCS products

The top 12 green IT departments: Green from the ground up

Top 12 IT departments that are reducing power demands and using technology to create energy efficiencies

Green gadget charger market to hit $34bn in 2015

Solar-powered handsets, solar chargers, wireless power units and more

NASA wants to run space missions, not data centres

CTO says the primary effort of NASA's open source cloud effort is to free itself from IT tasks

Facebook and eBay share green data centre tips

Better air flow and cooling can save big money

Ice balls help data centre go green

By shifting electricity usage from daytime to night time, I/O saves about $1,250 per kilowatt

Will web servers find a role in the enterprise?

Low-power servers from Dell, SGI and SeaMicro cut power use by reducing server components to a minimum

Oracle: Most companies are cutting data centre costs

CIOs must become more creative

MIT builds oil-eating, nanotech to absorb spills

Swimming robots could work in swarms to clean up oil spills

Fujitsu: Green IT remains immature

Carbon emmission offsets are highly unlikely


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