From www.echannelline.com:
The Business Case for Sustainable IT . Solution providers can make a compelling case for green IT to small and midsized businesses. Referencing Forrester's Christopher Mines' 2008 study, Going Green goes hand in hand with increasing efficiency and effectiveness of both the IT function and the enterprise as a whole. Generally, activities that are environmentally unfriendly are often also ineffective or obsolete.
Are Solution Providers, VARs and IT Consultants Ready for Environmental Certific
A Gartner study points out that most solution providers can claim only the energy efficiency of the products and solutions they sell. Within a few years, Green IT certification standards will expand to include the environmental friendliness of full supply chain and lifecycle management and business practices, as well as stringent energy reductions.
From IBM:
This December 2008 white paper frames Green IT within the context of business process transformation, summarizes some IBM initiatives, and hints at ways IBM can help their customers go green. As author Ellen Johnson concludes, "Green is the new Black."
(Sponsor)From eWeek:
IBM, CalTech Use DNA for Future Microchips
What's the connection? Processors today use an immense amount of energy. And, although they're made in spotless "clean rooms", making them is a dirty, toxic business. This article describes a way to work with nature to make processors immensely smaller and more powerful, yet be cleaner to create and operate.
5 Steps to Green IT
Oh, this is scary. Although it doesn't come out and list the 5 steps, it does bring a lot of attention to e-waste and energy consumption. Mountains of computers and cell phones still go into our municipal solid waste stream, and they're just about the most toxic stuff in there. To quote the article: "More than 1,000 chemicals used during electronics production, such as lead, mercury and cadmium, have been linked to cancer, reproductive problems and other illnesses."
Top 10 Resources for Green IT . ...
Lists resources for the Small Business Owner. These are:
- The Dept. of Energy's Green Power Network (GPN)
- NERIC (National Electronics Recycling Infrastructure Clearinghouse)
- Computer TakeBack Campaign
- IBM's Green IT web site
- Verdiem, power management software vendor
- EnergyStar
- GreenBiz.com
- PlanetMetrics. A suite of carbon-based performance indicators, with improvements indicated
- EPA Small Business Gateway. Resources for getting started, environmental assistance, technical help, and tips on saving money and finding other resources.
- Is Green IT Dead? Video interview with Steve Schultz, Storage IO analyst in Princeton. By becoming more economically efficient and productive. Literally by shifting and addressing the business issues, becoming more efficient and more focused...green gets funded for free.
The Green IT and Green Computing Article Archive has lots more articles, but one caveat: eWeek's Green IT section picks up articles that have nothing to do with Green IT. Some examples are "No Funds for Deadly Asteroid Discovery" and "NASA's New Inflatable Heat Shield".
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