Tag Archive | Incentives
Greener IT Can Form a Solid Base For a Low-Carbon Society
Precisely a year a go we launched the book Greening IT in print and online (free to download). And if I may say so, the book is still worth the effort of reading. The book aims at promoting awareness of the potential of Greening IT, such as Smart Grid, Cloud Computing, Thin Clients and Greening […]
Datacenters, an architecture approach
Many IT people underestimate that a great new technology can be insufficient to build a successful and sustainable business. Because of their trust in a technology’s superiority they fail to spend enough time exploring business drivers, (alternative) business models and business architecture. They often go with the first IT product they come up with. Yet, […]
Asian Tigers still have something to learn about Green IT
In Asia, the larger data centres tend to be based in the most expensive cities such as Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore or Shanghai. For almost ten years there is an impressive and continuous growth in data centers in the Asia-Pacific market. According to Chengyu Wu from Frost & Sullivan this growth in Asia-Pac will continue […]
5th Power & Cooling Conference
Last week I attended (and was chairman of one of the tracks) of the Power & Cooling conference that was held at 7 and 8 october in London and organized by Broadgroup. In its fifth edition this annual global event is for CIOs, IT and Facilities leaders and Infrastructure executives who share the need for […]
Green IT is Hard
A New Book in Town Did you already have a look at Greening.IT ? This weekend a next public draft release of our book, on how IT can be used to build a Low-Carbon Society, will be published and can be downloaded. Our mission is to write an internationally collaborative non-profit book on Green IT […]
