• AIIA spruiks green IT sustainability to Canberra

  Industry body Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) has called upon Australian governments, businesses and the ICT industry to collaborate on using technology more effectively to reduce the nation’s carbon footprint. Doing so, it believes, could see Australia cut carbon emissions by 20 per cent or 116 megatonnes annually by 2020, while also boosting the economy by up to $80 billion.

  By James Hutchinson | 29 September, 2010 12:37

  Tags: Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA), Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) CEO, green IT, ian birks, sustainable IT

• Google: Crank up the heat in your data center

  Google's top energy executive has offered some simple steps for making data centers more energy-efficient, including raising the thermostat to 27 degrees Celsius (80 degrees Fahrenheit) to cut down on cooling costs.

  By James Niccolai | 30 April, 2010 10:48

  Tags: data centres, Google, green IT, sustainable IT

• Companies call for better home energy monitoring

  A group of 47 companies and organizations, including several in the IT sector, have asked U.S. President Barack Obama to take new steps that would allow homeowners and businesses to better monitor their energy use.

  By Grant Gross | 06 April, 2010 05:31

  Tags: Barack Obama, Google, sustainable IT

• SAP plays up sustainability angle

  Organizations seeking ways to conserve energy and profit from being green may find the true gains won’t come from "greening" their data centers, but rather by maximizing the efficiency of their supply chains, said Peter Graf, the chief sustainability officer for SAP.

  By Joab Jackson | 12 January, 2010 06:17

  Tags: green IT, sap, sustainable IT

• Alcatel kicks off green networks group

  Alcatel-Lucent wants the telecommunications industry to turn a little more green by developing new equipment that cuts power consumption by a factor of 1,000.

  By Stephen Lawson | 12 January, 2010 01:37

  Tags: alcatel-lucent, green IT, sustainable IT

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