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What Are the Top 10 Green IT Strategies?

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 06:15:00 EST

Back in 2009, when I started the Green IT Practice for EcomNets, I was optimistic that every company would adopt the top 10 strategies for Green IT immediately. After gaining no visible business, I realized that I was the consummate early-adopter. Back then, nobody knew there was a chasm to cross, in fact I had to explain to IT professionals that Green IT is more than being on the Internet. It is, in fact, energy efficient computing from the desktop to the data center, from hardware to software, and from manufacturing to waste management.

Disruptive Technology from the Desktop to the Data Center

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 06:45:00 EST

According to Wikipedia, a disruptive technology or disruptive innovation is an innovation that helps create a new market and value network, and eventually goes on to disrupt an existing market and value network (over a few years or decades), displacing an earlier technology. The term is used in business and technology literature to describe innovations that improve a product or service in ways that the market does not expect, typically first by designing for a different set of consumers in the new market and later by lowering prices in the existing market. Virtualization and software design have been the main drivers in the development of disruptive innovations in hardware.

Making the Case for Green IT

Sun, 10 Jul 2011 11:00:00 EDT

Every time someone asks me what I do, I tell them, "I'm the Green IT Guy and I help companies and organizations become energy efficient from the desktop to the data center, from hardware to software, from the network to the virtual cloud." It took me a while to articulate that. For some reason energy efficient computing was not hitting the mark. Sometimes you have to repeat yourself over and over again. IT professionals would snicker and say stuff like, "Isn't the Internet already Green because it is paperless, and online?" This illustrates how far the industry has gone from the last couple of years. Now Green IT is a little more digestible. Others would say, "That's just Green Washing, Marketing Hype!" If I can walk into any organization and cut their energy usage, carbon output, and IT expense in half, I don't see how that could be considered green washing or marketing hype.

The Evolution of Green Printing

Fri, 08 Jul 2011 10:20:41 EDT

Printing is a huge environmental hazard resulting in exorbitant paper usage to the toxic production and usage of toner. Any way you slice it, printing is a total environmental waste. According to a survey of environmental pet peeves among over 1,569 adult U.S. and Canadian office workers by Harris Interactive, here are the top ten:

Disruptive Clouds: Imagine If IT Was Treated Like a Utility Service

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 11:00:00 EDT

First, just let me say I was never one to get caught up in the hype-cycle of cloud computing because I'm old school. We called it network services in the early '90s, then it became managed services by the late ′90s, then it became Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), and so on and so forth. Now we are calling the same monthly billing for IT services the cloud. Let's compare Cloud Computing to heating and air conditioning. We pay a monthly bill for services rendered. We never touch the water heater or the air conditioner, unless you're like me that has an ex-father-in-law that would talk you through it. Beyond that, we just pay the bill and expect not to freeze or overheat. It gives us more time to live our lives. Trust me, I have better things to do than wonder if I'm going to blow myself up lighting the pilot light.

Will Vivek Kundra’s Departure Have a Negative Effect on Green IT in Gov?

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 11:00:00 EDT

I wonder how much Vivek Kundra's departure will slow down the government's innovation, which is already too slow! I may be able to understand Vivek's frustration with the Federal Government. He is responsible for Data.gov. His plans to consolidate over 800 federal data centers, the Federal Cloud Strategy, and his legacy of the "25 Point Plan" are stuff of legend. I mean how long does it take to steer the course of an aircraft carrier? The federal government is a huge ship that moves very slow. Vivek's a pretty young guy, so he may not know that it takes a while to move large federal agencies within the beltway, or maybe he does and he's too impatient to see it through. Nevertheless, he did a great job as the nation's first CIO. Saving a 3 billion dollars with the IT Dashboard, while serving the President of the United States is no shabby undertaking. My fear is that the government will return to the status quo. This position requires extreme technical intelligence, business practicality, and fiscal activism. My hope is that Richard Spires, CIO of the Department of Homeland Security ensures that the next CIO sticks with the plan. The last thing we need is the beltway shuffle with these innovative initiatives.

Making the case for Green IT!

Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 EST

Green HR: The Ultimate Change Management Tool for Sustainability

Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 EST

The Four Pillars of Green IT!

Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 EST

Unsexy Software That Works

Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 EST

Disruptive Technology from the Desktop to the Data Center

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