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.

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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. . Gartner agrees.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 11, 2007

For instance, Gartner’s top 10 technologies to watch in 2008. There’s some great stuff there, like virtualization, social software, green IT, etc. It is nice to see that “Green IT &# tops Gartner’s list. Some nonprofits fit into this category, but most nonprofits that I work with don’t.

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Lesson Gartner Open Source Green 100

Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Just for fun, we at GreenTech like to read corporate promotional white papers that may have a nugget of green IT value to nonprofits and really anyone running a small or medium sized office.

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Tech Soup

MAY 27, 2009

Redemtech has been working with the Green the Capitol office at the US House of Representatives, whose mission is to reduce carbon emissions, save energy, and make the House a model of sustainability. The event will have something additional that many e-waste collection events don't have — a robust charitable reuse component.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

IT and telecom research firm Gartner Dataquest found that the secondary PC market is growing rapidly: 55 million PCs worldwide in 2004; and 86 million 2007. Gartner also found that of the nearly 200 million PCs that were retired by corporations and institutions in 2007, fewer than half found their way into the secondary PC market.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Here is Prashant and Pooja's view of the cloud based on a survey of Indian NGOs that they completed in September 2011: Gartner has forecasted that India's spending on green IT and cloud initiatives will double from $35 billion in 2010 to $70 billion in 2015, indicating a buoyant technology outlook for the Indian industry.

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