Green Computing

Tips for Buying Green Technology

Tips for Buying Green Technology

IT companies are admittedly not among the greenest of business environments. And while they’re certainly not the worst industry when it comes to carbon footprint and energy consumption, SMBs acquiring new technologies or upgrading their IT systems can get help for adopting eco-friendly practices. Greening the IT workplace has become the norm across many fields. [...]

Tips on Reducing Server Power Consumption

Servers have got to be the busiest workhorses within any workplace, running large amounts of business-wide processes and mission critical tasks on a daily basis. They serve as the backbone behind most 24/7 operations, integral in consolidating productivity-based applications and network connections across the workforce. With their reliability and the number of benefits they bring [...]

Green Your IT Workplace

We’ve all heard this before: Computers, office equipment, and appliances are driving increased demand for more energy consumption both at home and at work. In a workplace dominated by Internet and information technology, taking steps to become greener is more crucial today than ever. With commercial energy use increasing every year, there are several simple [...]

Simple Green Computing Tips

Arguably one of the most overlooked aspects of any office’s operations is just how much of an impact day-to-day work makes on the global environment. It is difficult to quantify, as every office is different, and have different people with different ways of doing things. Suffice to day, some things are a given: Offices use [...]

The Paperless Office: Ambitious but Potentially Possible

Ecologists and conservationists have been telling people since the 1970s that the rise in computer use will usher in a ‘paperless’ age. This was aptly described in the June 30, 1975 edition of BusinessWeek, in a piece called “The Office of the Future.” In it, the author describes how all the vital information kept in [...]