• Five ways to improve data center power efficiency you might not have thought of

  By Jon Gold | 11 May, 2012 00:41

  LAS VEGAS -- While few doubt the importance of maximizing the energy efficiency of their corporate data centers, executive vice president of data center technology for Las Vegas-based Switch, Mark Thiele's talk at Interop this week showcased just how much companies might still be missing. 

• IT can lower your carbon-footprint

  By Sheila Lam | 21 April, 2012 08:46

  Traditional IT roles focus on enabling business and enhancing efficiency. But at UK-based real estate consulting and management firm Knight Frank, IT project management skills into achieving the business's strategic goal--a low-carbon emission operation.

• Panasonic team to lug solar-charged batteries up Mt. Fuji, live-stream eclipse

  By Jay Alabaster | 19 April, 2012 21:37

  Panasonic will broadcast live a solar eclipse next month over Japan from the top of Mount Fuji, using batteries that are charged at the base using solar power and then carried up to the peak.

• Japan picks eight tsunami-battered regions for smart city projects

  By Jay Alabaster | 18 April, 2012 19:59

  The Japanese government will provide assistance to eight cities that were heavily damaged in last year's earthquake and tsunami to rebuild using "smart city" technologies that use IT to cut dependence on traditional power sources.

• Apple and Chinese environmental group to audit factory for pollution concerns

  By Michael Kan | 16 April, 2012 14:58

  Apple and a Chinese environmental group for the first time plan to jointly audit one of the company's supplier factories in China, in what could lead to more open inspections of Apple's suppliers for pollution concerns.

• Wal-Mart Aims To Go Green With Global Supply Chain Makeover

  By Thomas Wailgum | 28 October, 2008 14:18

  Wal-Mart has demanded that its Chinese suppliers adhere to green, environmentally friendly and product safety standards. But experts say that ensuring compliance in the complicated, vast network of Asian suppliers will be nearly impossible.

Whitepapers about environment

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  Virtual Certainty - Best Practices for Gaining Monitoring Clarity in VMware Environments

  The benefits of virtualisation are unassailable: increased agility, scale, and cost savings to name but a few. However, so too are the monitoring challenges posed by these environments—including complexity, lack of visibility and control, and inefficiency. This white paper reveals the best monitoring practices to employ in virtualized environments—best practices that are essential in enabling organizations to overcome their monitoring challenges so they can get the most business value from their virtualisation investments.

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  Trend Micro's End-to-End Vulnerability Management: A New Approach to Layered Security

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  Deduplication and Compression: Maximizing Effective Capacity Utilization

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  NEWS RELEASE: HP Recognises Australian Businesses for Driving Environmental Sustainability through their Imaging & Printing Infrastructure.