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NEW! Presentations and Podcasts from the Green Enterprise IT Awards
View the presentations for the Best In Class Green IT awards as well as listen to podcasts from the winners.
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Symposium 2008 Press Coverage
The 2008 Symposium: Green Enterprise Computing was a resounding success with over 440 Delegates participating and contributing to the dialogue and help shape the future of the industry and the direction of the Institute.
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McKinsey & Company Report on Data Center Energy Efficiency Released!
The capstone of the 2008 Symposium was a presentation of key findings and recommendations of the McKinsey & Company Report: Revolutionizing Data Center Efficiency—Key Analyses. View the presentation and listen to an audio recording of co-author Will Forest from McKinsey & Company.
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Premium Symposium Content Now Available for Symposium Delegate Registered Users
Access premium content throughout Symposium 2008! Information will continually be added so check back frequently for updates.
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Dell's Pickle: How to Sell Greener PCs
The Wall Street Journal—May 14, 2008—Making information technology “greener” is at the top of every tech
company’s wish list and rhetorical stump speech—as long as the
economics work. But now that climate change is mainstream enough to be
a Republican campaign issue, green IT is getting serious—even in Texas.
>>Read the full article...
Data Centers to Pass Airlines in Pollution
InformationWeek—May 3, 2008—Greenhouse gas emissions from data centers will more than quadruple by
2020, passing the total emissions of airlines, predict McKinsey &
Co. and the Uptime Institute in a new report.
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Corraling the Energy Hog Data Center
IT Business Edge—May 2, 2008—In a report on the worsening energy picture for data centers,
consultants McKinsey & Co. and the Uptime Institute call for a new
metric that combines energy efficiency as well as capacity used, a sort
of “miles-per-gallon” measure.
>>Read the full article...
BMO Financial Group Distinguished as an Energy-Efficiency Trailblazer
CNW Group—May 2, 2008—BMO
wins Uptime Institute Award for IT Hardware Asset Utilization for
energy reductions at Scarborough Computing Centre
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Uptime Announces Green IT Winners
IDM.net.au—May 2, 2008—A range of high-profile companies, including Sun Microsystems, AOL,
NetApp and HP, have been praised as data centre energy efficiency
pioneers, winning awards in this year’s Uptime Institute Green IT
Awards.
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Data Centers are Becoming Big Polluters, Study Finds
New York Times—May 1, 2008—The world’s data centers are projected to surpass the airline industry
as a greenhouse gas polluter by 2020, according to a new study by
McKinsey & Co. The study,
released on Wednesday at the [Uptime Institute] Green Enterprise Computing Symposium in
Orlando, Fla., mainly focuses on the cost- and energy-saving
opportunities being squandered today in corporate and government data
centers.
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Can the Tech Guy Afford to Care About Pollution?
The Wall Street Journal—May 1, 2008—Information technology is fast becoming one of the world’s biggest
polluters. The main culprit: Data centers, the vast farms of back-end
computers that do things like process data and run Web sites.
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Six Lessons Learned at the Uptime Green Enterprise Computing Symposium
InfoWorld—May 1, 2008—"Green = efficiency = savings" was a recurring theme at this year's Uptime Institute
Green Enterprise Computing Symposium in Orlando, Fla.
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McKinsey: Servers nNed an MPG-like Energy Rating
c|net—May 1, 2008—Greenhouse gas emissions from data centers rank higher than the
countries of Argentina and the Netherlands and right behind airlines,
shipyards, and steel plants. Those comparisons were compiled by consulting firm McKinsey
& Company and the Uptime Institute, which on Wednesday published a
report on the worsening picture—environmentally and economically—of energy consumption from data centers.
>>Read the full article...
Corporate Execs Must Take Charge of Green IT, Report Says
GreenBiz.com—May 1, 2008—Hiring a C-level 'Energy Czar' position and creating a corporate
average data-center efficiency metric are among some of the top-level
changes companies should adopt in order to make serious reductions in
energy use and greenhouse gas emissions, according to a report released
by the Uptime Institute and McKinsey.
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IT Greenhouse Emissions to Quadruple by 2020
IT Week—May 1, 2008—Greenhouse gas emissions from datacentre operations are set to quadruple by
2020, reports management consultancy
McKinsey. A year-long study into IT's energy use, conducted in association with the
Uptime Institute, highlighted the
profligate use of energy in today's data centres, which are a fast-growing
contributor to global carbon dioxide emissions and a drain on organisations'
resources.
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Cut Datacenter Power with Bureaucracy, Green Tech
Ars Technica—May 1, 2008—A new study from consulting firm McKinsey & Company with assistance
from the Uptime Institute has concluded that current initiatives to
reduce data center power consumption aren't adequately addressing the
issue.
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Day in the Sun: HP San Diego Solar Project on Track for August
ZDNet—May 1, 2008—Hewlett-Packard
has snagged some kudos from the Uptime Institute for a solar power
project in San Diego that is expected to go online in August.
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Report: Data Centers Fast Growing Contributors to Global Warming
TMCnet—May 1, 2008—Digital processing is on the rise today. From online banking to
auctions, orders in shopping carts, Web searches and videos that are
uploaded and streamed, and these rising demands require large-scale
computing facilities, or data centers to process. According to the
latest research study conducted by McKinsey & Company with Uptime
Institute, these data centers are not only the fast growing
contributors to Global warming, but are also a drain on corporate
profitability.
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Data Centers May Spew More Carbon Than Airlines by 2020
TechNewsWorld—May 1, 2008—At the rate it's currently growing, the power demands for data centers
will reach such heights that they'll become a larger cause for carbon
emissions than the airline industry by 2020, according to research from
McKinsey & Company. The problem, says the Uptime Institute's
Kenneth Brill, isn't that hardware makers aren't creating green
products; it's that data centers are reluctant to buy them.
>>Read the full article...
McKinsey: Measure Data Center Efficiency Like Car Fuel Efficiency
InformationWeek—April 30, 2008—Despite
the increasing urgency to get a hold of soaring energy demands
in IT, costs continue to spiral out of control. Energy costs are
increasing by 16% every year, while greenhouse gas emissions from data
centers have already passed the output of Argentina and are due to pass
those of all airlines by 2020. But, according to a new report by
McKinsey & Company and the Uptime institute, it doesn't have to be
that way.
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Green IT Acclerates in Orlando, Florida
Groves Green IT—April 30, 2008—Tonight is the opening
keynote for the Uptime Institute and the crowd is filling the chairs this
Sunday evening at Disney’s Swan Hotel.
>>Read the full blog...
NetApp Wins Green Enterprise IT Award From Uptime Institute
Business Wire—April 30, 2008—NetApp (NASDAQ:NTAP) announced today that it was named a winner of the
prestigious 2008 Green Enterprise IT Award from the Uptime Institute, a
leading research-based think-tank and corporate advisory on the business
and technology issues related to critical computing environment
reliability and energy efficiency.
>>Read the full article...
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