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IBM, OASIS Advance Smart Grid Initiatives

IBM, OASIS Advance Smart Grid Initiatives
Smart-grid initiatives are taking the form of many different partnerships including product improvements, standards development and demonstration projects that are designed to improve reliability and efficiency, ...

Supply Chain: Green Or Gold Or Both?

Supply Chain: Green Or Gold Or Both?
Companies face increased stakeholder pressure and government regulation to reduce carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions. To address this issue, companies must take action within ...

Climate Change, Water Availability to Impact Utilities

Climate Change, Water Availability to Impact Utilities
Nearly all electric utilities claim that climate change will result in power outages, higher costs and changes in usage in the midst of growing demand ...

Xerox, Accenture, CSC Atop List of Green Outsourcing Vendors

Xerox, Accenture, CSC Atop List of Green Outsourcing Vendors
For companies looking to outsource business services and minimize impact on the environment, a new list shows the top 50 green outsourcing vendors. The Black Book ...

Smart Meters Get Mixed Reviews

Smart Meters Get Mixed Reviews
As smart electricity meter programs start to roll out globally, there are some grumblings about a lack of standards and government regulation, as well as the ...

Socially Responsible Procurement – Doing the Right Things for Everyone

Socially Responsible Procurement – Doing the Right Things for Everyone
Procurement managers often struggle with how to do the right thing for society - protect the environment, conserve resources, treat people fairly - as they strive ...

Smart Meter Projects Advance in Texas, Amsterdam

Smart Meter Projects Advance in Texas, Amsterdam
A new smart meter initiative in Texas may be one of the most comprehensive such deployments in the U.S., with the goal to replace 3.4 million ...

IBM Plastics Recycling Performance Wanes

IBM Plastics Recycling Performance Wanes
Compared to heady growth in recycling figures from 2004 to 2006, IBM's more recent performance on using recycled plastics has dropped slightly, with the percentage of ...

Carbon Management IS Information Management

Carbon Management IS Information Management
For most organizations today, sophisticated carbon management is simply not possible. At best, gathering, assessing, and analyzing the necessary information is a considerable challenge. In some ...

IBM’s Green Sigma Coalition Lines Up Industry Leaders

IBM’s Green Sigma Coalition Lines Up Industry Leaders
IBM has announced the formation of the Green Sigma Coalition at its Green and Beyond Summit for Industry leaders in San Francisco, to provide smart ...

EMC, Cisco, MIT Partner on $100M Data Center

EMC, Cisco, MIT Partner on $100M Data Center
The race for the biggest, best and greenest data center is on, with EMC, Cisco, MIT and the University of Massachussetts potentially partnering on a new ...

Tech Innovations Cool Data Centers

Tech Innovations Cool Data Centers
With energy efficiency regarded as a key aspect of a green data center, many companies are working on innovative ways to cool their data centers. They ...

Data Center Efficiencies Coming Full Circle to DC, Liquid Cooling

Data Center Efficiencies Coming Full Circle to DC, Liquid Cooling
Throwing around terms like liquid cooling and DC power, the next generation in data center efficiencies may have a decidedly retro look, said Roger Schmidt, Chief ...

CSR Hampered by Lack of Supply Chain, Customer Information

CSR Hampered by Lack of Supply Chain, Customer Information
Business executives that are committed to sustainability changes often are unable to accomplish them because of information gaps within their own operations, as well as misunderstandings ...

New Data Center Model Reduces Energy Use Up To 50%

New Data Center Model Reduces Energy Use Up To 50%
A new data center at Syracuse University will be among the world's most efficient, using half as much energy as a typical data center. The $12.4 million, ...

Smart Grid Initiatives Poised for Growth

Smart Grid Initiatives Poised for Growth
The U.S. market for smart-grid technologies is projected to reach nearly $17 billion by 2014, up from about $6.4 billion today, driven by an aging electric infrastructure, ...

IBM, Sun Top Greenpeace Cool IT Challenge

IBM, Sun Top Greenpeace Cool IT Challenge
The first results of the Greenpeace Cool IT Challenge reveal that IBM and Sun Microsystems are the top ranking companies, with scores of 29 out of 100. ...

Green Data Center Rx – Go Modular

Green Data Center Rx – Go Modular
Demands for IT capacity are unrelenting and often unpredictable, making it difficult for CIOs in mid-market businesses to keep up with the pace of change. Growth from ...

Dell Comes Up Roses in Corporate Sustainability Index

Dell Comes Up Roses in Corporate Sustainability Index
Dell took the top spot in the inaugural Corporate Sustainability Index, a survey of technology firms' sustainability efforts put together by Technology Business Research, a ...

Cisco Predicts $20B Annual Smart Grid Business

Cisco Predicts $20B Annual Smart Grid Business
Networking equipment giant Cisco has outlined its plans for a highly secure smart-grid infrastructure. The networking equipment giant's solutions for the electricity grid will address ...

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