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Heather Clancy is an award-winning business journalist in the New York area with close to 20 years experience in the high-tech industry. A monthly columnist on Web 2.0 and Mobile Technology issues for Entrepreneur, she also covers small business technology trends for the magazine and is a contributor to The...- more about Heather Clancy »
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- Dell applies its own data center lessons to new green IT services
- As a business society, we've been pretty much used to thinking of information technology as a disposable asset. Even data centers were built with a 10-year lifespan in mind, which means a lot of the work done and systems deployed around the year 2000 is quickly reaching that maturity point....
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Data Center, Green IT, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- Using TREES to save the forest
- Lots of green building news bouncing around in the past few weeks, which simultaneously disheartening and heartening because of the state of the real estate market. The biggest deal, perhaps, is the fact that the U.S. Green Building Council is updating its Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design guidelines. (Here's...
- Tags: Software, Power Consumption, TREES, Tools & Techniques, Real Estate, Management, Business Operations, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Aclara application provides consumers with hourly visibility into electricity usage
- Want to find out how that cold snap last night is going to affect your monthly utility bill? Or whether or not you should do your wash in the morning, afternoon or night? If you're one of the 1.4 million customers in Pennsylvania served by PPL Electric Utilities, you can...
- Tags: Corporate Communications, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Channel Management, Tools & Techniques, Marketing, Internet, Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-11-30
- Catholic Church flirts with green tech of the solar sort
- Poking around the Web looking for green technology news on an otherwise quiet Thanksgiving weekend, when I came across this item about solar panels being installed in Vatican City. Apparently, the new Roman Catholic pope has a green bent. According to news reports,...
- Tags: Green Technology, Catholic Church, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-11-29
- IBM, HP update workflow and forms software with an eye to cutting paper waste
- I love it when competing vendors do something semi-related within days of each other, because it makes these posts so much more relevant. So, here's the deal: Both IBM and Hewlett-Packard are making some noise right now about the impact of enterprise document management technology on green technology agendas. I...
- Tags: U.S. Army, Hewlett-Packard Co., Workflow, IBM Corp., Document Management, Tools & Techniques, Content Management, Managerial Accounting, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-11-28
- Chill-Off project tests various recipes for real-world data center cooling
- It seems appropriate as I hunker down in my rather chilly office that I pen this post about the ongoing data center "Chill-Off" projects being run by the Association For Computer Operations Management AFCOM in Northern California. The intention of the Chill-Off demonstrations/tests is to monitor the effect of modular...
- Tags: Data Center, Blog, Data Centers, Blogging, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Internet, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-11-27
- Verari signs up partner for Forest data center container line
- I've poked around some during the past two months, trying to get a read on whether or not companies are actually buying the data center containers or "pods" that several of the larger high-tech systems vendors have been piloting this year. So far, the biggest evangelist on the customer side...
- Tags: Data Center, Verari Systems Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-11-26
- IBM dominates latest green supercomputer list
- Must be the season for lists. Aside from the Greenpeace one I pointed to earlier today, you've also got the latest Supercomputing Green 500 ranking to consider, published by the Green500.org. This is the list that reinterprets the organization's Top 500 high-performance ranking by focusing on...
- Tags: Energy Efficiency, Supercomputer, List, IBM Corp., Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-11-25
- When (if) you shop for electronics this holiday season, consider the latest Greenpeace environmental ranking
- Just in time for the Black Friday retail rush at least they hope, Greenpeace has released its 10th Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics! Greenpeace rates major tech gadget vendors on a scale of 1 to 10, where 10 is the best score the company can rate for...
- Tags: Greenpeace, Energy Efficiency, Electronics, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-11-25
- TI execs ramp up green tech contributions, at work and at home
- The trouble with the Green IT blog beat is there are literally hundreds of things that you could write about every day, often from the same company, but since this isn't the ONLY thing I do to put food on my table, I have to be really selective about which...
- Tags: Green Technology, Texas Instruments Inc., Ogboenyiya, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-11-24
- Xerox turns down the heat, saves power with green printing innovation
- Have you noticed how much more the tech companies have started to talk about technology software AND hardware to help cut back on paper consumption over the past two months? Well, here's a slight twist from Xerox, which is focusing on improved power efficiency in the printing process with its...
- Tags: Innovation, Xerox Corp., Printing, Document Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-11-22
- Deep in the heart of Texas: Electronics recycling infrastructure expanded
- The vendor-funded recycling organization MRM more formally known as Electronic Manufacturers Recycling Management Company has inked a deal with Goodwill Industries in Texas that will extend the territory it can cover in the state. MRM was started as a joint venture by Panasonic Corp. of America, Sharp...
- Tags: Texas, Electronics, MRM DOES, Policies And Procedures, Human Resources, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- IT resellers encouraged to spread the EPEAT green gospel
- If you're not interested in understanding the in's and out's of the EPEAT Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool rating systems, the Green Electronics Council has started training IT solutions and services providers about how to better-interpret the information for their clients. EPEAT uses 51 different criteria (such...
- Tags: Information Technology, Reseller, EPEAT, Federal Government, Strategy, Government, Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- Wells Fargo team shares green tech tips for the data center
- In my quest to uncover practical information about what real data center managers are doing to decrease their energy consumption, for real, I recently spoke with two executives from Wells Fargo's Technology Information Group TIG. Scott Dillon, executive vice president and CTO for Enterprise Hosting...
- Tags: Team, Data Center, Green Technology, Wells Fargo & Co., Data Centers, Server Virtualization, Virtualization, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Servers, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-11-20
- It's green report card season: Proclamations from IBM, SAP, Toshiba and Xerox
- Some scintillating corporate sustainability reading for your perusal today, folks. In all seriousness, the last few weeks have seen several of the biggest of the big high-tech vendors publish their latest environmental reports or corporate responsibility statements. Here's a list of some of the most recent, along with a brief...
- Tags: Sustainability, Xerox Corp., Card, Corporate Responsibility, Greenhouse Gas, SAP AG, Toshiba Corp., IBM Corp., Business Ethics, Leadership, Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-11-20
- Dell data dump: More energy ammo for the procurement checklist
- Two Dell-related green tech proclamations this week: First, the company has done one of those fun green math exercises and is calculating that its customers have saved an estimated $3 billion in energy costs and 29 million tons in carbon dioxide emissions by using OptiPlex desktop systems since 2005. Whether...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Dell Optiplex, Procurement, Desktops, Hardware, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- More tidbits about electronics recycling and e-waste
- Goodness, they did it. As debate continues over nasty e-recycling behavior and the role of the government, businesses and the average U.S. citizen in fixing the situation, Massachusetts asset disposition company Converge has delivered on its promise to expand its international network with responsible partners. The company says it has...
- Tags: Asset, Recycling, Electronics, E-waste, TV, Alberta Recycling, Asset Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- New carbon monitoring resources available via the Web
- If one of your near-year-end resolutions is to build out the carbon and greenhouse gas emissions reporting for your company, there are a couple of new resources that have been released in the past week. First off, Sun Microsystems has updated the tools that are available on...
- Tags: Web, Monitoring, Greenhouse Gas, Greenhouse Gas Emission, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- Just in time for the holiday madness, UPS embraces new green packaging label solution
- Talk about a customized piece of green tech. Hewlett-Packard and the United Parcel Service have collaborated to design a device that not only can scan packages for tracking purposes but that can print sorting labels right onto packages, cutting out the paper that would normally go toward...
- Tags: United Parcel Service Of America Inc., JIT, Printing, Document Management, Handhelds, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Hardware, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-11-16
- NextWorth offers special tech trade-in program for military personnel
- One of the tech recycling and trade-in organizations, NextWorth, has struck an electronics trade-in deal with the All Services Exchange Catalog & Online Store, which is a source of products for military personnel and their families. The relationship will allow armed services personnel to receive cash...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple iPod, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-11-15
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