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Zero clients speed hospital care, lower energy bills

Doctors and nurses at Seattle Children's Hospital are making use of zero-client devices (also known as ultra-thin clients) to pull up patients' data at their bedsides, and meanwhile the devices are Read more...

How SAP uses IT to practice sustainability

SAP uses software to promote sustainability, and has four approaches to engage its own employees in the practice: transparency, tools, role modeling and incentives. Peter Graf, SAP's chief Read more...

Panasonic in the enterprise?

Panasonic is viewed primarily as a consumer electronics maker in the United States, but in the company's home country of Japan, it is viewed largely as an enterprise solutions provider, reports Kym Read more...

How managing energy can be profitable

As strategic innovation becomes a growing part of the CIO's job, a focus on energy management could prove valuable. If managed correctly, energy could become its own profit-generating unit, says Read more...

Best practices for data center efficiencies

Data centers and other IT systems are beginning to pose one of the world's great environmental challenges as their energy consumption continues to expand. As businesses take a wide variety of steps Read more...

Cow power and other ideas for reducing IT's energy costs

CIOs are facing twin stresses in the data center these days: Usage is growing and so is the pressure to reduce energy consumption and costs. These imperatives, along with increasing environmental Read more...

Elusive tablet PC a touch away

The faster you buy some great new technology, the sooner it gets pushed aside for something faster and better. But in the case of tablet computers, IT executives have been waiting and waiting for the Read more...

Data centers aren't all the same

There are several different types of data centers, and each is different and provides different kinds of business missions. With escalating IT energy consumption, it's important to find out what kind Read more...

How green is your data center?

If altruism doesn't motivate you, surging power demands might convince you that it's time to make your data center a green one. Green data centers don't just save energy, they also reduce the need Read more...

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Press Releases

Idaho National Laboratory and Fujitsu Laboratories of America to Collaborate on Next-Generation Smart Grid Technology

The collaboration will create a joint test bed for advanced modeling of efficiency and security in smart grid deployments SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Fujitsu Laboratories of America today Read more >>

Sprint Leads Wireless Industry in Green Power, Securing No. 13 on EPA Fortune 500® Green Power Partner List

Only wireless carrier named to National Top 50 OVERLAND PARK, Kan.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Sprint Nextel (NYSE: S) announced today that the company has moved up from No. 20 to No. 13 on the U.S. Read more >>

Verdiem Interoperates with Cisco EnergyWise to Help Customers Lower IT Energy Costs and Reduce Carbon Emissions

SEATTLE, Jan. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Verdiem, a leader in IT energy management and efficiency solutions, announced today that Surveyor 6 is interoperable with Cisco EnergyWise, delivering energy Read more >>

ThinkEco Selects DataArt as Integrated Solutions Partner

Custom Software Development Firm Creates a Roster of Green Applications to Remotely Monitor Power Consumption NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- DataArt, a custom software development firm that builds Read more >>

Earth Networks and EnergyHub Debut e5 Home Energy Demand Response Program Based on Neighborhood-Level, Real-Time Weather

GERMANTOWN, Md. & BROOKLYN, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Earth NetworksSM the operator of the largest weather, lightning and climate observation networks, and EnergyHub, Inc., a leading provider of Read more >>