I could not help wondering how the upcoming legislation might affect small business and their data centers energy efforts? "Obama pushes Senate to act on climate measure" more --->
On June 19th Mike Manos the recognized energy guru wrote in his blog "As an industry, we have been talking about it for some time. Some claimed it would never come and it was just a bunch of fear mongering. Others like me said it was the inevitable outcome of the intensifying focus on energy consumption .... This is no longer a drill. more --->
For tools and information to create an energy baseline for your data center. click here --->
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Monday, June 22, 2009
Save Paper & Energy
Tired of printing web pages only to find your printout is full of ads, empty space and other junk you don't want? Tired of feeling bad that you once again wasted part of a tree, never mind the toner and energy to produce this mess.
Later as you relax to read the "offending printed copy" - oops, you have everything you never wanted to know on a "will not rip you off credit card", you have the 1,2,3 of avoiding identity theft, but you do not have the article!
We can make a choice here!
a) Curse loudly and promise to print 3 copies of all the pages next time?
b) Think that the conspiracy has struck again?
c) Thank God for the opportunity to practice patience?
Continue reading this story ==>
Later as you relax to read the "offending printed copy" - oops, you have everything you never wanted to know on a "will not rip you off credit card", you have the 1,2,3 of avoiding identity theft, but you do not have the article!
We can make a choice here!
a) Curse loudly and promise to print 3 copies of all the pages next time?
b) Think that the conspiracy has struck again?
c) Thank God for the opportunity to practice patience?
Continue reading this story ==>
Thursday, June 18, 2009
No Case Studies?
There is no shortage of rhetoric on green IT amongst our esteemed muckety-mucks, but do a search on Google for a serious case study and see for yourself what is actually going on.
Google has an impressive track record, see solar panel project. But with 100's of thousands of servers you would hope they were doing something. And take note, the solar project has a 7 year cost recovery, and a 25 year pay back. For most of us smaller businesses, ROI is this week, and remaining employed next month is long term planning.
As a 7 times serial entrepreneur, this all seemed like the perfect opportunity to investigate further.
Continue reading this story ==>
Google has an impressive track record, see solar panel project. But with 100's of thousands of servers you would hope they were doing something. And take note, the solar project has a 7 year cost recovery, and a 25 year pay back. For most of us smaller businesses, ROI is this week, and remaining employed next month is long term planning.
As a 7 times serial entrepreneur, this all seemed like the perfect opportunity to investigate further.
Continue reading this story ==>
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