Green IT Market/Trends

Jan. 6, 2009 - Microsoft has dedicated its latest issue of Architecture Journal, the company's free publication for IT managers, to green computing. READ MORE

Doug Washburn hand-picks five trends that IT managers can't afford to ignore in the New Year. READ MORE

Dec. 11, 2008 - Fujitsu Siemens Computers has introduced a new eco-label to help customers "find a clear path through the green IT jungle." READ MORE

Nov. 25, 2008 - Nearly four in five of the world's most energy-efficient supercomputers are made by IBM, according to the latest Green500 rankings. READ MORE

Nov. 13, 2008 - The Green Grid, developer of the Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) metric for measuring and comparing energy performance among datacenter cooling and power supply units, says it is now working on a similar metric for servers, storage systems, and networking equipment, BusinessGreen reports. READ MORE

Oct. 3, 2008 - Toshiba's Digital Products Division has expanded its free e-waste recycling program to include everything from laptops to cellphones to GPS units - regardless of the product's manufacturer. READ MORE

Sept. 22, 2008 - Struggling to select the right vendors for your green IT upgrades? It all comes down to crafting the right request for proposal (RFP), according to a new Forrester survey. READ MORE

Sept. 15, 2008 - Research firm Gartner is predicting a muddled approach to green IT investment "for years to come," as companies struggle to identify the best ways to allocate their technology budgets. READ MORE

Aug. 13, 2008 - With electricity costs heading skyward, you'd think all IT managers would be keeping an eye on the meter - but one in ten still don't make energy efficiency a top priority within their departments, according to a new survey. READ MORE

Aug. 5, 2008 - With small and medium-size enterprises buying PCs and servers in record numbers, green (read: energy efficient) computing is starting to look a whole lot more attractive within the sector, a new report finds. READ MORE

July 30, 2008 - Despite overwhelming support for green IT initiatives, more than half of IT managers say the costs of implementation are still too high, according to a new report. READ MORE

July 14, 2008 - More than three-quarters of U.K. firms don't have a green IT strategy in place, but those that do deserve kudos - don't they? Not so fast: Barely a tenth of the 21% that have adopted a formal environmental policy are actually following through on their own green recommendations, according to a new survey. READ MORE

July 8, 2008 - Unite, the British labor union representing workers in the electronics and IT sectors, says it should have the right to access environmental performance data for the companies served by its members. READ MORE

June 20, 2008 - Seven global IT firms have finished in a statistical dead heat for the title of world's greenest tech brand - primarily because expectations for green IT performance vary so widely from country to country, a new survey shows. READ MORE

June 17, 2008 - Advanced Data Centers is pouring $100 million into a state-of-the-art green datacenter that the company says is already generating big buzz among corporate clients keen to save on IT energy costs, Sacramento Business Journal reports. READ MORE

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