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March 26, 2008 The State of the Art in Sustainable IT SLM Home | Green IT News & Ideas | Connections | Events | About

65% of IT Managers Expect to Run Out of Power Within Five Years Datacenter energy consumption jumped 30% last year, far outpacing U.S. EPA predictions for 9% growth, according to a new study from Uptime Research. Sixty-five percent of companies surveyed expect their computing needs to outstrip datacenter power capacity within five years, and 41% say they could run out of power within just two. Read more... Also This Week... Thin Clients Help Businesses Cut Computing Costs 81% Thin clients - computers than concentrate processing activities for many networked machines on a central server - can slash energy costs per workstation by as much as 81%, according to new research from the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany. Given that thin clients currently account for just a fraction of commercial desktops, the potential for savings is actually much greater, the study suggests. Read more... New Power System Safeguards IT Operations Using 75% Less Energy CyberPower, a manufacturer of backup systems for IT equipment, has introduced a new uninterruptible power supply (UPS) technology that draws 75% less energy than similar products. UPS systems are typically used to safeguard IT equipment from data loss in the event of a power failure, meaning they must remain on at all times. Read more... IT Managers Wary of Suppliers' Green Claims While most IT departments are working to implement green programs and practices, many datacenter managers question equipment vendors' claims on environmental performance, according to a new survey from Aperture Research Institute, a market research firm. Forty-two percent of respondents say they have no way to validate those claims, and 26% percent call them "outright hype." Read more... 76% of Companies Don't Monitor IT Energy Costs, Survey Finds A new CIO magazine survey IT executives finds that only a quarter of respondents currently measure their carbon footprint and, of those, just 11% include energy use from IT operations in their calculations. The figures are hardly surprising given some of the study's other findings; 76% of the companies don't even keep track of their IT-related energy spending. Read more... Barclays Taps HP Technology for New Green Datacenter Barclays’ planned datacenter in Gloucester, U.K., will be the first in Europe to use Hewlett-Packard's Dynamic Smart Cooling technology, a system that monitors and automatically adjusts air temperature to maximize cooling functions. The bank estimates that its new datacenter, slated for completion in February 2009, will be about 13% more energy efficient and save more than 7,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide from release each year. Read more... More Green IT News & Tools... We want to hear from you! Post your comments or questions below any SLM news story and we'll feature the best of them here. Forward to a Friend! Chris Laszlo on Talking Sustainability with the C-Suite Business consultant and author Chris Laszlo knows a thing or two about value creation. His new book, “Sustainable Value: How the World's Leading Companies Are Doing Well by Doing Good,” builds on decades of experience advising the world’s largest companies on how to leverage sustainability into competitive advantage. In this SLM interview, Chris outlines his strategy for selling corporate executives on green initiatives (hint: it's helpful to equate "sustainability" with "opportunity") and explains why “tradeoff” is such a dirty word. Read more... PC Magazine's Greenest Desktops and Laptops The computer weekly's 2008 rating of some of the latest and greatest green desktop and laptop PCs on the market today. (PC Magazine) Read more... Top Headlines from Other SLM Channels Corporate Climate Reporters Rallying Around GHG Protocol New Software Helps Companies Design More Climate-Friendly Supply Chains GE Innovation Sets Stage for Super-Efficient TVs, Monitors Wal-Mart Tailors Energy-Efficient Store to Desert Climate China Mobile Pledges to Boost Energy Efficiency 40% Report: Clean Energy Market to Triple within Ten Years Check Out Our New, Improved Website! Bookmark this page for updates on Sustainable Brands '08! Advertise on SLM! Become a Sustainable Life Media advertiser or sponsor and reach thousands of business leaders looking for product or service solutions to help them build their sustainability story. Click here to learn more. Have a story you want told? Send it to us!

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