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5 Reasons Why Your Nonprofit Should Care About Cloud Computing

TechImpact

When using a cloud-based email system from your laptop for example, your machine is not doing any of the raw computations, it is simply displaying the results of computations that are happening elsewhere. Since so much is happening away from your local machines, you will likely require a much smaller IT staff. Green benefits.

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350.org Is Greening the Planet with Lean, Green IT

Tech Soup

In a time when climate change and developing the green economy are somewhat passé, nonprofits have not given up on the mission. Find out how they're greening the planet and using the leanest greenest IT possible. They have no infrastructure beyond that, which is why cloud computing is regarded as green IT.

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Why TechSoup Product Donations and Donors Are Green

Tech Soup

This isn't a comprehensive list of all our donor partners' environmental activities, but this time I'd like to talk about Cisco and Symantec and also about our Green Technology Product Donations. The company is also greening its supply chain. Symantec has formed 18 different Green Teams. Now a bit about us.

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350.org Is Greening the Planet with Lean, Green IT

Tech Soup

In a time when climate change and developing the green economy are somewhat passé, nonprofits have not given up on the mission. Find out how they're greening the planet and using the leanest greenest IT possible. They have no infrastructure beyond that, which is why cloud computing is regarded as green IT.

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Back to School in Tanzania with a New Windows Multipoint Server Computer Lab

Tech Soup

Jim walked out of there with four refurbished laptops preloaded with Windows Multipoint Server and 16 NComputing thin clients. The laptop servers are far more energy efficient than desktop computers and each little five-watt NComputing thin client uses 90% less electricity than a laptop. Three refurbished i5 laptops.

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If you're a Salesforce user, 3 great reasons to use Google Chrome

Judi Sohn

You enter your credentials, all stored locally, and you now have a handy window to manage your logins. Makes it easier if I want to log in using my laptop while on the go. Click it and it turns green, telling you that the ID only is on the clipboard. Managing all those logins securely used to be a royal PITA.

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If you’re a Salesforce user, 3 great reasons to use Google Chrome

Judi Sohn

You enter your credentials, all stored locally, and you now have a handy window to manage your logins. Makes it easier if I want to log in using my laptop while on the go. Click it and it turns green, telling you that the ID only is on the clipboard. Managing all those logins securely used to be a royal PITA.

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