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Green IT: Reducing your Carbon Footprint with Citrix

Going green has become an imperative, not an option, for companies facing the new reality of balancing business objectives with dwindling environmental resources. Limited energy supply and skyrocketing costs are compelling organizations to take radical measures to reduce their carbon footprint. Read on to learn how Citrix products can help...

Tags: Green IT, Citrix Systems Inc., Carbon Footprint

White papers 2008-04-23

London Borough Saves £200,000 a Year by Reducing Carbon Footprint With Dell Print Services

Waltham Forest Council wanted to address costs resulting from inefficient printing processes. The borough also wanted to eliminate wasteful processes, such as single-sided printing, to reduce its environmental impact. Waltha Forest Council deployed Dell for its solution and standardised on Dell 5310n, 3115cn Multifunction Devices and 1720dn printers, which are...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Carbon Footprint, Printing, London Borough, Document Management, Servers, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Hardware

Case studies 2008-03-27

Carbon Footprint Calculator (exe)

Calculate your carbon footprint with this easy to use calculator software. Enter in data to figure CO2 generated from activities including transportation, energy, trash or waste, recreation, purchasing habits, and food. Learn where you can go green by calculating your carbon footprint and then focusing on areas where you can...

Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Enviroduck Green, Carbon Footprint, Transportation

Software downloads 2008-04-11

Online carbon footprint and power consumption calculator

The online carbon footprint and power consumption calculator from Logicalis will help organizations estimate the advantages of virtualization. An excerpt from TechWorld: The tool is only for U.S.-based IT users. Users enter the state location of their data centre, followed by the numbers of PCs, servers,...

Tags: Data Center, Power Consumption, Tool, Carbon Footprint, Data Center Efficiency, Data Centers, Productivity, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Arun Radhakrishnan

Blog posts 2007-12-23

Carbon footprint ??

Hi,I joined just now to find some ideas and information on how a I.T department can reduce its carbon footprint. Basically I am looking for low power PC's, printers, air con units - everything. I can't find anything on this site and was wondering if anyone had any...

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Discussion threads 2007-02-09

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College Reduces Carbon Footprint and Saves Thousands of Pounds With IT Infrastructure

Based in the New Forest, Brockenhurst College is a Beacon College that offers courses and training to around 2,700 sixth-form students and 8,000 adult learners. As part of a drive to reduce its carbon footprint, while also cutting costs, Brockenhurst College is overhauling its IT infrastructure to reduce energy consumption...

Tags: IT Infrastructure, Information Technology, Strategy, Management

Case studies 2008-01-01

Carbon Footprint Calculator (gg)

Find your impact on the earth. Calculate the amount of your CO2 emissions. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Tags: Bijoy Thangaraj

Software downloads 2007-12-07

Carbon Emissions Calculator (zip)

Carbon Emissions Calculator to help you reduce you carbon emissions. Simply enter the appliance wattage and how long it is used each day. The program will then tell you your carbon emissions by day, quarter and year. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Tags: Carbon Emission

Software downloads 2007-12-05

Converting carbon dioxide to fuel

Researchers at the Sandia National Laboratories are developing a reactor that could ultimately result in production of fuel from carbon dioxide. An excerpt from TechnologyReview: The device uses a two-stage thermochemical reaction to break down carbon dioxide to produce carbon monoxide, says Nathan Siegel, a senior...

Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Carbon, Arun Radhakrishnan

Blog posts 2007-12-18

Webcast: Five Steps to a Greener Data Center

Listen as IBM environmental experts discuss new and innovative IT solutions intended to help your business save energy, reduce its carbon footprint, and lower its cooling costs. View this webcast now.

Tags: Data Center, Webcast, IBM Corp., Data Centers, Digital Media, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Webcasts

CO2 Global (zip)

Program for control of emissions and management of carbon credits. You'll be able to manage the purchase and sale of carbon credits, to make the planning of the sustainable actions and control of emission, to organize the bought certificates, to establish levels of aditionality, emission, reduction and much more. The...

Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Credit

Software downloads 2007-08-01

Need for Speed Carbon demo (exe)

What starts in the city is settled in the canyons as Need for Speed Carbon immerses you into the world's most dangerous and adrenaline-filled form of street racing. You and your crew must race in an all-out war for the city, risking everything to take over your rivals' neighborhoods one...

Tags: Electronic Arts Inc., Crew

Software downloads 2006-10-30

OSIsoft, Long Used for Performance Measurement, Now Boosts Environmental Sustainability

A large and growing use of OSIsoft software is helping companies measure and monitor energy and other resource consumption, conserve energy use, reduce their carbon emissions, and improve water quality. The fear of global warming has accelerated interest in carbon footprint reduction, of course, as have government requirements at a...

Tags: Performance, Microsoft Corp., OSIsoft, Tools & Techniques, Portals, Monitors & Displays, Productivity, Management, Internet, Hardware, Components

Case studies 2008-04-01

Energy Efficiency in IBM Data Centers

This Webcast details how IBM is implementing hardware, software and services to become more energy efficient within their own network and how it can work for you as well. Chris Molloy, Distinguished Engineer, explains how IBM is deploying new technologies to reduce their data center carbon footprint. Register and...

Tags: Data Center, IBM Corp., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management

Webcasts 2007-06-01

Carbon nanotube-based memory may be reality by 2010 or earlier

Another use for Carbon Nanotubes besides RAMA show on building arcologies (giant habitats that qualify as mini-cities) in Japan suggested we build them out of carbon fiber. Instead of fabricating huge beams in a factory and hauling them, they suggested they be 'grown' - a machine on the end...

Tags: Nanotechnology, Dr Dij, carbon nanotube, nanotube, Carbon Fiber

Discussion threads 2007-11-19

Microsoft Windows XP Embedded: Reducing the Footprint

This webcast will discuss how to reduce the footprint of the image. It will also show the viewer how to remove unnecessary hardware drivers to reduce the Microsoft Windows XP Embedded operating system footprint.

Tags: Footprint, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software

Webcasts

(Images: Celebrating clean tech at Burning Man)

Carbon Offsets for camp fires?So how many 'carbon offsets' does Mother Nature have to buy for wild fires?

Tags: lonpreston

Discussion threads 2007-05-11

Gore takes global warming fight to Congress

The "inconvenient truth" is......that Al Gore and his hyperbole is a fraud, and in the long run, he's going to do far more harm for the environment than good. The biggest threat to the environment is poverty, and his enviro-economic agenda virtually guarantees that for most Americans and virtually...

Tags: U.S. Congress, JohnMcGrew@..., global warming

Discussion threads 2007-03-22

Enterprises struggle with data center utilization and reducing carbon emmisions

A survey of 120 IT enterprises in the United Kingdom starkly suggests that enterprises are struggling at utilizing their data centers, with worse results when it comes to controlling carbon emissions. An excerpt from ComputerWorld UK: The 120 IT professionals that responded to the survey manage...

Tags: Data Center, Industry, Survey, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Arun Radhakrishnan

Blog posts 2007-12-04

Environment Promoter Saves Expected £60,000 With New Operating System

The Carbon Trust, which supports U.K. organisations in reducing carbon emissions, wanted to standardise and upgrade its desktop environment. Disparate legacy systems reduced the cost-effectiveness of existing IT administration and impacted the performance of personnel. The organisation migrated to Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (SP2) as part of...

Tags: Operating System, Environment, Microsoft Corp., Environment Promoter

Case studies 2006-02-01