Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JANUARY 27, 2009

For a couple of years now we've been seeing talk of Green IT, and as early as 2007 management consulting giants Gartner and McKinsey were addressing Green issues as a major issue facing IT managers. Techsoup offers some suggestions for Greening the smaller workplace. Tags: nptech greenit.

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NTEN

JULY 1, 2009

Every Wednesday, Gartner does a free webinar on a variety of topics. According to Gartner, the average server uses 65% of its power just sitting idle. AND, it's the green thing to do. Gartner noted that client virtualization is still pretty new, though, and there are kinks to work out. . You know how I feel about data.

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Tech Soup

MAY 27, 2009

All collected equipment with data storage will be swept clean, and all equipment that is old or broken will be end-of-life recycled without being exported , incinerated, or being sent to a landfill. As a major asset recovery company, Redemtech readily champions electronics reuse, often citing recent Gartner statistics on the topic: read more.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

"As the use of virtual environments for business purposes grows, enterprises need to understand how employees are using avatars in ways that might affect the enterprise or the enterprise's reputation," said James Lundy , managing vice president at Gartner, Inc. So, is your organization prepared?

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