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Reducing Paper…Increasing Information

I was reading through the recent blog entry on reducing paper, and it reminded me of an article about "digital shadows" that I read in the Singapore Straights Times. Even though we are now in a Green IT wave with a focus on reducing paper, power consumption, and CO2 emissions, there is an increase in another area: digital information.

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Posted Friday, May 16, 2008 9:04 AM by René Aerdts | 0 Comments

Reducing Paper

My city has recently moved to mandatory recycling. So, every week I have to remember if it is a normal week or a recycling week. While this is difficult enough, we have all had to change our habits and start putting paper, cardboard, cans, bottles and batteries in different containers for the recycling week. All this sorting has led me to make a few changes to our regular routine.

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Posted Thursday, May 15, 2008 1:29 PM by Chris Moyer | 1 Comments
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Green Data Centres – It’s Easy, Follow the Sun

If you are an advocate of solar energy, then one of the biggest debates that you are likely to get into is around the question of Grid Parity. If you carry out some simple sums, then in terms of the cost to build a new power plant, we are already there.  The supporting evidence is the number of new base load solar plants that are springing up, like this one in Arizona. But the phrase that has captured my interest is that of a Solar Continent. Australia is, like much of the US, very well positioned to capture a great deal of energy from the sun. With the falling prices of PhotoVoltaic (PV) panels, it is very likely that in the next ten to twenty years much of the western world will be powered with some form of distributed energy (DE). So how does this affect our data centres?

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Posted Monday, May 12, 2008 5:19 PM by Alex Cameron | 1 Comments

Collaboration 1.0 or 2.0?

I was reading through a very interesting study by the Economist Intelligence Unit about collaboration. We have made tremendous progress on the technology front, as is reflected in the developments in the Web 2.0 space. In spite of all this technology advancement, it seems that face-to-face collaboration still has the greatest success rate.

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Posted Thursday, May 08, 2008 8:40 AM by René Aerdts | 0 Comments

Color E-paper Coming Soon, but Will It be Greener??

I was reading IEEE Computer and they had an article E-paper Soon to be in Living Color; based on the description we should have commercial products by 2010.

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Posted Wednesday, April 30, 2008 5:17 PM by Charlie Bess | 0 Comments

Is there better power out there? What role will IT play?

Energy is the lifeblood of the economy and the British Thermal Unit (BTU) is the standard measure for the energy we use to heat our homes, travel to work, run our factories, power communications, produce foods, and power our computers. Information technology (IT) plays an ever increasing role relating to energy, whether it is helping to locate, develop, produce, transport, or even consume energy.

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Posted Friday, April 25, 2008 6:43 PM by Charlie Bess | 0 Comments

Is the Market Ready for “Green Services”?

At the moment there is a lot of discussion going on around Green IT. In the broadest sense, Green IT can be defined as the practice of deploying and using Information Technology (IT) as efficiently as possible. Based on this definition, the concepts of virtualization, power management, technology refresh, and mobility can all be encompassed under the Green IT umbrella. Even from a data center perspective, the focus is on data center design, maintenance, and operation. As such, the overarching end-to-end data center Green Services solution may be there in practice, but it does not come to the forefront.

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Posted Tuesday, April 22, 2008 7:26 AM by René Aerdts | 4 Comments

Is cloud computing vaporware or almost here?

In the past few months, I've been in numerous discussions about cloud computing and when it will get here. Lately there's been discussion even in the bastion of proprietary computing hardware -- the gaming industry moving away from consoles. You can already see today on some of the MMOG, that there is significant backend computing taking place with the console focused on presentation. Many organizations have already looked hard at putting thin client solutions (like the Sunray) on many of the desktops that perform normal office functions. They take less power and they're easier to support. Of course without a network, they are just a brick.

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Posted Friday, April 04, 2008 7:59 PM by Charlie Bess | 0 Comments

Sensors, Sensors, Sensors - Can they really help us get green?

Sensors in bridges, sensors in highways, and sensors in buildings could all help save lives, reduce energy and tell us how to best design and use a structure.

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Posted Tuesday, April 01, 2008 12:17 PM by Dan Gonos | 1 Comments

Virtual Presence and Green IT

For centuries the workers of the world have had to locate within commuting distance of their work. It was necessary because, their work could hardly travel to where they lived. Not anymore.  The paradigm of moving work to people rather than moving people to work is being adopted more and more by progressive companies who understand that there are benefits that devolve both to the enterprise as well as to employees.

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Posted Monday, March 03, 2008 5:49 PM by Charlie Bess | 2 Comments

A light green activity

EDS has been working with the products of a company called Fifth Light. This company does something that I thought was impossible - dim fluorescent light to improve energy efficiency. There is even a video from the Discovery channel that shows the product in action.

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Posted Wednesday, February 13, 2008 9:01 PM by Charlie Bess | 2 Comments

The 2048 teenager questions the teenager of today

Let’s spin forward 40 years to the year 2048.  Today’s 15 year old teenager is now approaching age 55. The 2048 teenager refers to the 55 year old as “the old guy”. The following is a fictional conversation between the 2048 teenager and “the old guy”.

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Posted Wednesday, February 06, 2008 8:49 PM by Mike Sarokin | 9 Comments
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Brighter LEDs could replace incandescent lighting

This article within ScienceDaily discusses researchers who are developing new technology that could replace the household light-bulb within three years. Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) are already used in electrical equipment such as computers and mobile phones, and are several times more energy efficient than standard light-bulbs. However, because of their structure and material, much of the light generated in standard LEDs becomes trapped, reducing the brightness of the light and making them unsuitable as the main lighting source. The article goes on to describe how they’re getting the light out of the structure.

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Posted Wednesday, January 16, 2008 4:54 PM by Charlie Bess | 0 Comments

Predictions for 2008

This year I’m going to go out on the limb a bit further than in the past, and focus on the positive things that will be coming.

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Posted Saturday, December 29, 2007 10:45 PM by Charlie Bess | 1 Comments

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