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  • Earth Hour on election night: Cast a vote for power

    In a chance case of progress versus sustainability, the NSW Electoral Commission will be in the middle of counting electronic votes on the evening of March 26 when everyone else will switch their power off for Earth Hour.

    Written by Rodney Gedda • 17 March 11 12:37

  • Turning service management green - Part 2

    Is it a bird? Is it a plane?..No! – it’s service management! ITIL Version 3 may not explicitly talk about sustainability but at every stage of the service lifecycle there is implicit guidance that can assist organisations in addressing the environmental challenges of its operations.

    Written by Karen Ferris • 09 March 11 14:27

  • Turning service management green - Part 1

    Green IT is a widely talked about subject at the moment. Organisations are undertaking numerous initiatives to address the challenge of increasing power consumption, growing carbon footprint not to mention increasing costs. An initiative that most organisations are not undertaking is embedding sustainability into processes and workflow.

    Written by Karen Ferris • 08 March 11 09:21
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    Ideas for green printing

    The pursuit to buy green can be baffling for consumers as so many vendors make claims of being green and it is hard to determine what’s valid and what is greenwashing. When considering a printing vendor look carefully at their environmental credentials for substance. There are a number of factors you can look for in determining whether they really do constitute a green choice or whether it is simply marketing spin.

    Written by David Finn • 21 Sept. 10 14:41

  • Data Centers Want an MPG Rating for Energy Efficiency

    These days, with the shock of US$150-per-barrel oil only a year old, consumers in the market for a car will likely pay much more attention to a pair of numbers: The vehicle's two miles-per-gallon ratings.

    Written by Robert Lemos • 15 April 09 09:26

  • Taking a lead on e-waste

    Doing the right thing makes sense from a business point of view as well as from an environmental and corporate social responsibility perspective.

    Written by Ian Kiernan • 23 April 08 12:13

  • IT's Thinking but Not Yet Acting Green

    Information technology is going green. At least IT systems vendors are, with announcements of new energy-efficient servers, data centre power and cooling products, and device recycling initiatives coming thick and fast these days

    Written by Christopher Mines • 06 June 07 15:25

  • Simple Steps to Greening Your Data Centre

    As heavy power users, IT departments have a key part to play in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. And apart from the environmental impact, they need to make sure they don't exhaust their capacity. A recent Gartner report notes that 50 percent of data centres will have insufficient power and cooling capacity by 2008

    Written by Matt Mulligan • 06 June 07 15:12

  • The Fragility of Road-Warrior Security

    It is often said that the weakest link in the IT security chain is the human being. In our technological age it is inconceivable to travel without network tethers such as a laptop PC, mobile telephone or e-mail PDA. The road warrior is connected 24/7 to his home, corporate office/clients/partners and the Internet. What has occurred in the 21st century is that all of this technology is taken for granted, and security is never a primary issue or concern.

    Written by Frank Dzubeck • 21 May 07 10:37

  • To Be Proactive or Not to Bee?

    Being "green" has become very fashionable. Along with that there's a lot more talk about behaving in ways that support our environment rather than our business-as-usual habits. But the problem with being green in practice is how much of our business as usual will we sacrifice to save ourselves?

    Written by Mark Gibbs • 14 May 07 11:27

  • Addressing the Challenges in a Virtual Workplace

    We've talked quite a bit recently about the inexorable shift toward the virtual workplace and reviewed the technical requirements for supporting one. Now it's time to look at the challenges.

    Written by Johna Till Johnson • 01 May 07 14:48

  • It's Not Easy Being Green

    Here are some frightening realities: You can't buy any more power in the cities of Boston or Houston, and other cities are either on the tapped-out list or about to be. It doesn't matter if you are Warren Buffet or Bill Gates, you can't buy any more. That, my friends, is a pretty harsh reality.

    Written by Steve Duplessie • 23 April 07 14:35

  • Work/Life Imbalance

    Seals don't balance balls on their noses for fun; they do it for fish. People don't try to achieve work/life balance for fun; they do it to survive.

    Written by Beverley Head • 17 April 07 11:52

  • Where's the Off Switch?

    Slack-jawed I watched the mother of the groom, seated on the top table, whip out her mobile phone to call a relative at the back of the function centre and chat during the festivities. Admittedly it was a big wedding with guests numbering in the hundreds, but this was a new paradigm at work.

    Written by Beverley Head • 12 April 07 12:38

  • The Carbon-Adjusted Supply Chain

    At the Emerging Technologies Conference at MIT in September, Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos gave a keynote talk on the slew of new and innovative Web services his company has recently launched. His discussion of MTurk, S3, and EC2 held no surprises for me, or for readers of this column and of my blog. But one of the questions posed by an attendee, in the Q&A period following Bezos' talk, was a stunner.

    Written by Jon Udell • 05 April 07 10:58

  • How Green Was My Silicon Valley?

    I'm seeing an increased emphasis on environmental greening of the IT industry. It may be due to the reduced levels of green on the actual environment due to ongoing drought, or to Al Gore's film, An Inconvenient Truth. Gore recently addressed a group of 1500 Silicon Valley business leaders, imploring them to promote green technology that causes less pollution. Companies seem to be heeding his request in one of two ways: Green by Proxy or Do as I Say

    Written by Bruce Kirkham • 03 April 07 13:10

  • Zapped!

    Server prices are dropping, performance is increasing, and IT is consuming less space. So why is total cost of ownership headed through the roof?

    Written by Kenneth G Brill • 03 April 07 12:33

  • IT Must Change Course on Environment

    Australia's newspapers are gorging on advertisements flogging special Vista deals. Local computer retailers want a slice of the action promised by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, who at the US launch of Vista said "The installed base of PCs is about a billion. To ship a billion upgrades and new machines is not going to be one year and it's not going to be five. It's probably something in between."

    Written by Beverley Head • 21 Feb. 07 12:47
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