Information Communication Technologies

How to make your data center more energy efficient
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15 Aug. 2012 — added by Lucinda Broad, 2degrees
In today’s world, it is almost impossible to discuss any business operation without considering efficiency. In the data center realm, maximizing the energy efficiency without …
"Don't just measure ICT energy consumption - disaggregate it, understand it, manage it"
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19 Oct. 2012 — written by Lucinda Broad, 2degrees
Efforts to improve ICT sustainability have stalled in organizations across the world and opportunities to cut costs and make more efficient use of resources are not being …
Multi-seat Computing: An ICT solution
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8 March 2012 — written by Roger Anscombe, Kira Supplies
As the MD of an IT company, Roger Anscombe of Kira Supplies has spent several years researching the energy consumption of office equipment with particular emphasis on PC …
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Green IT to grow 3.5 times faster than wider IT market
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30 July 2012 — written by Lucinda Broad, 2degrees
The UK’s emissions reduction-related IT market will grow 3.5 faster than the current wider IT market between now and 2020, according a study by sustainable innovation …
Your Favorite Track May Destroy The Planet
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16 May 2012 — added by Vanessa Delgado, 2degrees
[10 mins] The environmental cost of streaming music services may potentially be worse than actually buying physical products. An interesting interview with MusicTank's Eamonn …
A Growing Problem
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27 June 2011 — written by Laura Spiers, 2degrees
As conversation (and English wine) began to flow at Food for Thought, the bright green broadbean pesto dressing on my mozzarella starter vaguely reminded me of a warning sign …
It's Not Easy Being Green: IT's struggle with sustainability
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4 April 2012 — written by Vanessa Delgado, 2degrees
Read key points and concepts from 2degrees' visit to the Hosting and Cloud Transformation Summit 2012. What is going on in IT today? The Hosting and Cloud Transformation …
Smartbunker – The Challenge
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3 June 2010 — started by Dan Robinson, Smartbunker
An Introduction Smartbunker is a data centre located deep underground in east Lincolnshire in a 30,000sq ft ex-NATO military bunker. In 2005, when Smartbunker became fully …
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Using Digital Connections To Accelerate Sustainability
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15 March 2012 — added by Vanessa Delgado, 2degrees
"Peter Grant from Clouds Apps explains how in the age of digital it is much easier to create a baseline from which to monitor sustainability gains or losses." The speakers …
To end user ICT buyers, your help with research into resource efficiency
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11 July 2012 — started by Jim Craig, PE INTERNATIONAL
Hello All, I'm engaged on a research project for a UK government funded body looking at attitudes and behaviours towards resource efficiency in the purchase of ICT …