Earth Day is the time of year when everywhere you turn it’s green. The newspaper, radio, and of course TV: several broadcasting networks are featuring special green-themed logos and programming. So it shouldn’t have been a surprise to see thousands of “green” consumers at this year’s Go Green Expo in NYC. I had the pleasure of speaking at the conference on Saturday about Dell’s green IT strategy. While I'm usually I’m talking to CIOs and business executives
Dell has made aggressive strides with the "greenness" of our enterprise products and solutions in an effort to help our customers meet their environmental and cost goals. Our hard work is paying off... According to a recent GreenFactor study released by Strategic Oxygen and Cohn & Wolfe, Dell is the number one green technology brand among IT buyers. Strategic Oxygen surveyed more than 3,500 enterprise IT decision makers, including CXOs, CIOs and IT Managers, in 11 different countries
AMD has done some fantastic things of late, especially in terms of helping Dell increase our virtualization performance on PowerEdge servers and blades. I follow our friends at AMD regularly and came across a blog called “ A Socket Full of Growth .” In his post, John Fruehe, director of business development for server and workstations at AMD, claims makes the case that it is more time and cost effective to replace a processor than to buy new servers. He says, “Here's a little
When I’m out talking to different audiences about the benefits of Green IT , one point I typically bring up is the somewhat sensitive relationship between an organization’s Facilities and IT departments. These are traditionally different departments with different objectives and different budgets. But when you’re tasked with implementing a Green IT strategy across your organization to help lower energy costs and CO2 output, both Facilities and IT can play a part. I believe that Green IT can be a
I spoke this week at the Uptime Institute’s Symposium 2008. Green IT is a topic that undoubtedly is becoming more top of mind among CIOs and data center managers. Research from the Uptime Institute indicates that enterprise greenness is both socially responsible as well as economically smart. I couldn’t agree more . Greening your data center for efficiency is both good for the environment, since you’re lowering your overall CO2 emissions, and good for your pocketbook, since you’re able to reduce
Technorati Tags: Data Center , Data Centers , metrics , earth day Earth Day is a day to reflect on our planet’s condition and to re-dedicate ourselves to the work that lies ahead. One of the keys to effective conversation is having good metrics that indicate the progress we are making. That’s why we became one of the founding members of The Green Grid , an international consortium of companies dedicated to improving energy efficiencies in data centers and business computing ecosystems. One of the