CIO's Get Plugged in to Energy

Triple Pundit (Sep 15 2010) Monitoring , Servers

1. It is likely that Chief Information Officers (CIO) will be increasingly tasked with finding ways to reduce energy consumption in their corporations, if they haven’t become engaged already. According to a report released earlier this year by the Society for Information Management (SIM), CIO’s are being urged to become familiar with energy informatics, a new subfield whereby information systems are applied in order to optimize energy supply and demand. Energy informatics uses sensor networks to gather information about the use of energy consumption and distribution systems and can then optimize operations. The push to get CIO’s more involved in a company’s energy portfolio, whether through informatics or otherwise, is a necessary one. According to an article in Forbes.com, the majority of CIO’s have never even seen a power bill. In most organizations, the power bill is handled by the facilities department, although the technology ... (Read Full Article)

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