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Expanding Eco-Practices Benefits the Bottom Line and the Brand: Sustainable IT Initiatives at Midsize and Large Organizations

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Overview The demand for sustainability at organizations today is clear with a broad range of sustainable IT projects/ initiatives in progress and planned for implementation that are designed to help reduce environmental impact and power consumption. The adoption of performance management frameworks and the implementation of environmental, economic and social metrics can help organizations strategize, analyze and implement effective sustainability initiatives; however, the high rate of proprietary frameworks indicates that standards are still emerging.

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Publisher	SAS Institute	File Format	PDF
Date Published	February 2008
Format	White Papers
Topics	Green IT

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Green IT: Reducing your Carbon Footprint with Citrix

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Solutions Brief: Storage Consolidation and Data Protection for the Remote Office/Branch Office (ROBO)

Driving Enterprise-level efficiencies and capabilities beyond the corporate data center.

Publisher:
Dell EqualLogic

Tags:
high performance computing

To Green or Not to Green. That Is the Question

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Publisher:
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green it

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Publisher:
KACE

Tags:
storage management

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Publisher:
Switch and Data

Tags:
infrastructure management

How tech can make us greener

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Make tech greener, CIOs told

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Channel:
Public Sector
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cio

CIOs are driving the green agenda

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Channel:
IT Director
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green,
cisco,
cios

BT to cut CO2 emissions by 80 per cent

It is a powerful tool for embedding sustainability into organisations worldwide and critical in effecting change. Its 2008 Sustainability report revealed that during the last financial year it had saved £365.3m as a result of its environmental...

Channel:
Telecoms
Tags:
co2,
green it,
bt

Time to green-light sustainable IT

For sustainability to be sustainable, the emphasis needs to be evolution, not revolution. Management may find it is pushing against an open door when it comes to implementing sustainability initiatives.

Channel:
IT Director

Green IT - how CIOs can help

So what can CIOs and the IT department do to support sustainability? In comparison, sustainability refers to the process of living and working in a manner that conserves resources and uses them in an efficient manner - and in a way that does not...

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