IBM Offers Green IT Advice

eweek.com (Jun 21 2010) Carbon Footprint , Cloud Computing , Servers

1. In an interview with eWEEK, IBM's resident green IT expert, Steven Sams, talks about Big Blue's efforts to help its customers go green. The explosion of connectivity, online applications and new services has driven the average business to increase its server capacity by six times and storage by 69 times over the last 10 years. The increased demand to keep up with growth and manage rising energy costs, as well as increased concern for the environment, places significant pressure on aging data center infrastructures. Many companies are under pressure to reduce their carbon footprint. While "going green" and growing business appear to be diametrically opposed goals, IBM has pioneered technologies that demonstrate how green IT can actually provide a much more efficient and competitive infrastructure to support emerging business requirements. (Read Full Article)

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