Technologies that help businesses use power more efficiently should become a bigger money-maker in the next decade, even if surging demand for data means overall energy use in the tech sector will still rise.
CIOZone and the Society for Information Management’s New York Metro chapter are asking CIOs to make a public pledge to reduce waste and increase energy efficiency over the next 12 month. Next year, the CIOZone will review all pledges to see which teams reached or exceeded their goals and recognize those outstanding CIOs/IT departments with the SIMNY/CIOZone Green Pledge Award.
As environmental issues continue to attract attention, business executives can look for ways to make a difference to their company, their customers and to the global community. Those that ignore this will miss an opportunity to beat the competition.
Blog: If companies are going to successfully deal with the new oil reality, CIOs will need to play a key role—a role that goes well beyond adopting 'green' strategies to run data centers and computing systems more efficiently.
Green may be the new black, but many U.S. consumers are not recycling old electronic gadgets despite promises by multiple organizations for hassle-free ways to get rid of electronic waste.
Energy conglomerate General Electric Co and Internet leader Google Inc plan to hold a news conference shortly on unspecified joint energy projects, the companies said on Wednesday.
When it comes to reducing IT energy consumption, there is no one technology solution. That was Vijay Sankaran's message to the 200 information technology managers gathered in New York last Thursday for IDC’s Green IT Forum.