You don't need to be green to be a Green Techie
Just read about a new proposed data center metric called Corporate Average Data Efficiency (CADE) in this Information Week article…
McKinsey: Measure Data Center Efficiency Like Car Fuel Efficiency
The article says that this metric… combines both IT and facilities costs to monitor energy use, and create “energy czar” positions to manage energy efficiency.
From MSNBC…
The ‘green’ way to dump electronic junk
The article provides tips and actual web links (unlike CMP Techweb which always forces me to search for things they mention) to site providing information about reselling, donation, recycling, and other green practices for electronic junk disposal.
ZDNet reacts to Gartners’ Windows’ sky is falling commentary with an article titled…
Windows is a glacier and glaciers don’t melt overnight
But, according to CNN…
Lake in Chile empties from melting glacier
Melting ice in southern Chile caused a glacial lake to swell and then empty suddenly, sending a “tsunami” rolling through a river, a scientist said Thursday.
So, I guess anything is possible.
Just read this at PC World…Get Paid to Return Your E-WasteYou don’t actually get cash. But, you do get credit from the partnered retailer. The two recycling firms are mentioned but not linked in the article. This is the only website I could find for EcoNow. But, it doesn’t look like the right one. I found this for TechForward though. And, it looks like the right site.
CNET’s Dennis O’Reilly provides detailed information and advice for Windows XP and Vista desktop PC power management.
Here’s a link to a video of a WinHEC 2007 conference presentation by Microsoft’s Stephen Berard about…
Windows Server Power Management
The video is just under 42 minutes long. Click on the PowerPoint tab in the right sidebar to see the slide deck for this presentation.
Ars Technica published an article titled…
Ars System Guide special: it’s easy being green
…that is a guide to buildig green PCs. The article provides two budget lists: One for a green PC (with hard drive) and one for an extreme green PC (with solid state drive).
Saw this Microsoft TechNet video mentioned on the Green Data Center Blog…
How much power does your PC consume?
It is a 20 minute long video. So, get comfortable for a sit-back experience (vs. lean forward).
A co-worker told me about the…
…IP-enabled power, temperature, and humidity data collection device a while back. I just saw it mentioned in a Green Data Center Blog item titled: Power Monitoring Equipment Review - Smart-Watt and a visit to Microsoft.
PC World reports that…
Government Workers Skip Telecommuting Opportunity
I was surprised to learn from the article that…A three-day-a-week government telecommuter could save an average of US$5,878 a year in commuting costs and avoid putting 9,060 pounds of pollutants into the environment, according to Telework Exchange.