Governments are starting to recognise the need to reduce its carbon footprint and mitigate negative environmental impacts. Green IT can reduce exponentially the consumption and costs associated with critical, energy-intensive government IT functions, like the datacentre and the desktop. Victor Tsao, GM for Citrix Systems in Greater China, offers three key areas to help public-sector green efforts.
Money is paper: save both by managing your documents
US firm's experience shows virtualization technology use spreading into desktops and storage
IDC announced the results from a special report on the role ICT can play to curb almost 5.8 billion tons (GT) of CO2 emissions by 2020. In addition to the results of the study, IDC released its first ICT Sustainability Index, in which the G20 nations have been ranked based on their ability to reduce their CO2 emissions through the focused use of ICT.
International IT research firm IDC is set to release an IT Sustainability Index to effectively score countries’ efforts in using ICT to meet their CO2 emission targets.
IDC has quantified the reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that result from using key information and communication technologies to their full potential. The complete results of IDC's study will be released at a press conference in Copenhagen on December 10th.
IDC has recently completed the ICT Sustainability Index that scores a country's ability to use ICT to effectively reduce its carbon dioxide emissions. The complete results will be released at a press conference in Copenhagen on December 10 this year.
Enterprise-sized companies, including IBM and The Coca-Cola Co., have taken the lead in making sure their IT operations are as "green" as possible. But what about the green data center of the future?
How are you dealing with the massing piles of e-junk? Large companies must act today to limit to the damage done by dispatching toxic e-waste.
US casino tackles energy efficiency and tips on kickstarting Green IT
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Environmental group Greenpeace, which last week assailed Facebook for using coal-powered electricity in its data centers, is itself using carbon-producing energy to power its servers.
Equinix says its SV2 International Business Exchange (IBX) has earned the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Certification from the US Green Building Council.
Customer serving organisations have always faced a demand dilemma. This paper lays out the reasons why contact centre strategy is changing, outlining the benefits of the different solutions out there, and provide practical guidance to how to move to a hosted or virtual model.
Enterprises that seek a successful move to virtualization have a number of hurdles to overcome. Not all are obvious. This paper identifies seven key things that you must know if your business is to be successful in virtualizing your mission-critical applications.
Operational risk is an ever-present challenge of the banking industry, inhibiting performance and reducing profits as banks need to keep adequate reserves of capital to cover potential losses. But in recent years, corporate wrongdoing, high-profile fraud and major process failures have put the dangers of operational risk – and the consequences of poorly managing it – in the spotlight. This case study looks at how Woori Bank in Korea went with analytics to reduce its operational risks.
Queensland University of Technology (QUT) is a culturally diverse Australian education provider with campuses in Brisbane and southeast Queensland. In 1989, QUT decided to partner with Oracle to deliver key elements of its information technology architecture. Download this free case study to know more.
