• Foxtel pushes crowdsourcing video initiative in the name of Green IT

  By CIO Staff | 15 May, 2013 10:42

  Foxtel has thrown its weight behind this year’s International Green IT Awareness Week with a video crowdsourcing competition to promote environmentally-friendly technology behaviour.

• Cloud's real ecological timebomb: Wireless, not data centres

  By Rohan Pearce | 09 April, 2013 11:10

  Cloud service providers have previously drawn ire from environmentalists for not being transparent when it comes to the energy efficiency of their data centres.

• Managing power and cooling costs in the data centre

  By Hamish Barwick | 22 March, 2013 12:10

  Rising energy costs and increased spending on server hardware could mean more power and cooling strains put on data centre facilities over the next four years, according to an analyst from Gartner.

• Sydney Uni seeks HPC energy cost reduction with new algorithms

  By Hamish Barwick | 25 February, 2013 13:30

  Newly developed algorithms may be the solution to reducing the increasing energy consumption and cost of high performance computing (HPC) networks, according to University of Sydney director of HPC Professor Albert Zomaya.

• CO2 emission testing of ICT equipment may need a rethink

  By Rebecca Merrett | 10 January, 2013 16:14

  The traditional method of measuring the energy consumption and CO2 emissions of ICT equipment for carbon reduction purposes may not necessarily be the best, according to researchers from University of Melbourne’s partner Centre for Energy Efficient Telecommunications, and Bell Labs.

• Set up your printer to save ink and paper

  By Sandra Vogel | 12 August, 2010 15:42

  Whatever else you may do with your PC, it's likely that you print out at very least the odd letter, document or photograph. Papers and inks can be expensive, so printing wisely isn't just a matter of choosing the right printer for the job; you also need to ensure it's properly set up.

• Supply chain management in Australia - Part 3

  By David Braue | 21 September, 2011 07:00

  As if data quality and stockouts weren’t enough of a day-today worry for CIOs, added pressure to serve demanding online customers and keep up with changing legislation are creating new challenges. With several retail giants lumbering online and the looming introduction of the government’s new carbon tax, CIOs need to be working with procurement, financial and other business leaders to ensure supply-chain systems are up to today’s new challenges.

• Smart grids set to revolutionise energy companies - Part 2

  By David Braue | 03 May, 2011 10:29

  Smart meters have a way to go. The recent 2010 Australian Smart Grid Study, a survey of 13 Australian utilities by sector consultancy Logica, showed an average self-reported maturity rating of just 2.14 on a scale of 1 to 5, and communications networks to support them rated 2.80.

• Smart grids set to revolutionise energy companies - Part 1

  By David Braue | 02 May, 2011 11:28

  Like any entrepreneur, Andrew Dyer is excited about the possibilities for his clean-energy venture, BrightSource Energy. The company, of which he is a director, is this year partnering with energy giant Chevron to cover 1000 acres of the US desert with 4000 mirrors that reflect sunlight onto three boilers mounted atop each of three 100 metre towers.

• Slideshow: Verb IT first with HP Performance Optimised Datacentre (POD)

  By Rodney Gedda | 20 August, 2010 08:57

  Sydney-based Verb IT is the first company in the Asia Pacific region to provision an HP Performance Optimised Datacentre (POD) next-generation data centre in a shipping container. The new Verb DC site where the POD is located is a standard industrial warehouse in Wyong on the NSW Central Coast (one hour north of Sydney). Verb DC is schedueld to go live in September after a 14-week project, including the POD delivery time. In what is being painted as a big win for the Central Coast IT industry, the new POD will provide computing services to local businesses and the world.

• Beware Worthless Claims in Green Clothing

  By Bill Snyder | 13 April, 2010 06:45

  Reducing power usage and cutting carbon emissions is probably the right thing to do for the future of the planet. But keep this is mind: Green is a powerful marketing term right now and cost-savings promises are part of the marketing pitch. Like all marketing promises, results vary. One example: The amount of money a typical consumer can save by using or powering down energy-efficient computers, printers and the like is often small--in the case of an up-to-date laptop, the energy savings add up to perhaps just $10 a year.

Whitepapers about green IT

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  The Green Office: The Importance of Peripherals in the Green IT Ecosystem

  This document examines the role of peripherals in the Green IT ecosystem – both in terms of reducing costs of running the Green Office, as well as its role in the broader notion of environmental sustainability. Read on.

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  Allocating data center energy costs and carbon to IT users

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  Implementing Energy Efficient Data Centers

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  IDC Research | Measuring the Business Value of Green Datacentres