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Firms Told To Take Ownership Of Carbon Management
Explore Article Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Feb 15 2010) Monitoring , Carbon Footprint , Emissions
Board-level bosses are being warned that their firms will fail to achieve reductions in CO2 emissions unless they take ownership of carbon management With the CRC (Carbon Reduction Commitment) legislation looming in the UK, senior management figures are being advised to take a hands-on approach to their carbon management. So said a new report from research firm Verdantix, which warned that unless CEOs take ownership of carbon management as a business transformation challenge, not a corporate responsibility issue, their firms will fail to achieve absolute reductions in CO2 emissions.
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How Cap & Trade May Impact the Data Center
Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Feb 9 2010) Monitoring , Cap and Trade , Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Cloud Computing
As governments around the world continue to explore and implement carbon emissions standards and carbon reduction commitments, many companies will be required to participate in auction-based carbon emissions trading schemes that are designed to provide economic and reputational incentives for achieving reductions in emissions. In many cases, those companies that do not reduce emissions could face financial penalties in the form of emissions credits they will need to purchase. For example, in the United Kingdom, the Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy Efficiency Scheme will begin in April 2010 to promote energy efficiency and help reduce carbon emissions.
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Measuring the smart-grid effect
Explore Article Technology News (Feb 4 2010) Monitoring , Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Fossil Fuel
Good old-fashioned guilt and frugality might go a long way toward helping the U.S. reduce its carbon footprint. Converting the U.S. electricity grid to a series of smart grids would have a significant impact on carbon emissions from utilities mainly because the shift would tend to change people's usage habits, according to a report released last week by the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). Researchers at PNNL's Electricity Infrastructure Operations Center (EIOC) used real-time U.S. electric grid data, advanced software, modeling computation, and data from existing smart-grid projects to determine whether, and by how much, a series ...
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Cloud Monitoring Services: A Resource Guide
Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Feb 4 2010) Monitoring , Cloud Computing
The cloud computing market has spawned an ecosystem of third parties that provide tools that monitor the performance of your hosted apps in the cloud, or keep a watch over public clouds (notably Amazon EC2) for breaks in service-level agreements. Some cloud computing monitoring services provide a single dashboard for SysAdmins to check the status of all their different clouds, whether public or private. Below is a list of cloud monitoring companies (in alphabetical order) with a brief description of what they offer. We will continue to update this list as new suppliers come on board. Have we missed someone?
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Carbon Management Software and Services to Grow 40% Annually Through 2017
Explore Article environmentalleader.com (Jan 19 2010) Monitoring , Carbon Footprint , Fossil Fuel , Cloud Computing
The carbon management software and services market exceeded $380 million in 2009 and is expected to achieve a heady 40 percent compounded annual growth rate through 2017, according to Pike Research. The software market for carbon management was estimated at $132 million in 2009, according to the Carbon Management Software and Services report. The market should reach $1.2 billion by 2017. The services market, including consulting, implementation and outsourcing services, was estimated at $248 million in 2009, and is projected to grow to $3 billion by 2017. In other carbon management news, logistics provider Damco developed a new model for ...
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CBI comment on Environmental Audit Committee report on carbon budgets
Explore Article climatechange.cbi.org.uk (Jan 11 2010) Monitoring , Emissions , Fossil Fuel
The CBI today (Monday) commented on the Environmental Audit Committee’s report on carbon budgets, which proposes a 42% cut in carbon emissions by 2020. Dr Neil Bentley, CBI Director of Business Environment, said: “Businesses are excited by the opportunities the shift to a low-carbon economy could open up, and we were disappointed that world leaders did not agree a binding global deal on emissions cuts at Copenhagen. “This makes it all the more urgent for the UK to press ahead with its own plans to curb emissions, including a big push on energy efficiency and serious investment in a broad ...
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EMC Acquires Risk Specialist Archer Technologies
Explore Article Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Jan 5 2010) Monitoring , Cloud Computing
EMC continues to branch out in areas peripheral to storage, most recently in the data governance, risk and compliance sector. The hardware and software vendor announced on 4 Jan. that it plans to acquire privately held Archer Technologies, a provider of GRC software. Financial details of the transaction were not released, but EMC reported that the deal will not have a material impact on revenue for the full 2010 fiscal year. Archer has about 6 million licensed users and a client list that includes 25 of the Fortune 100, EMC said. Archer makes automated, integrated GRC software for managing corporate ...
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Meet the Data Center Boss: He Runs the A/C, Too
Explore Article GigaOM (Dec 15 2009) Monitoring , Cloud Computing , Networking , Servers
Privately held startup Zyrion tomorrow plans to announce a new version of its Traverse network management software that helps enterprise customers control their data center from the packets to the chillers, a trend that’s becoming more important as energy consumption becomes a priority and corporations start trying to manage their data centers like a computer. I covered the trend of IT and facilities managers merging a few weeks ago, and Vikas Aggarwal, the co-founder of Zyrion, confirmed that customers of its software were experiencing the same thing. Customers asked Aggarwal for help tying their facilities equipment to their computers, so ...
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New Smart2020 Project Tracks IT Industry's Progress on Climate Goals
Explore Article greenercomputing.com (Dec 15 2009) Monitoring
Following on the release earlier this year of a report outlining how information technology can enable a low-carbon future, the Climate Group this week launched a project to keep the IT industry on course. The new "Pathways to Scale" project offers case studies of how companies are applying high-tech solutions to building energy efficiency, transportation, the smart grid, and other areas. The original Smart2020 report found that the IT industry can play a role in achieving global emissions reductions of as much as 15 percent by 2020, and save companies over $725 billion by improving efficiency. Among the findings of ...
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How Green Is Green?
Explore Article Forbes.com (Dec 11 2009) Monitoring , Carbon Footprint , Cloud Computing , Servers
IBM says the carbon footprint of a data center tells you how green it is. Look inside almost any data center these days and you'll find initiatives under way to consolidate servers, improve server utilization rates and cut overall power consumption. These are all green initiatives, but what exactly makes a data center green? Forbes posed that question to IBM ( IBM - news - people ) CIO Pat Toole. IBM claims to have two of the greenest data centers. So how do you prove it? You can't. "There are no industry standards on that," Toole says. "The best way ...
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Google.org unveils deforestation monitor
Explore Article Technology News (Dec 10 2009) Monitoring , Emissions , Fossil Fuel
Google.org demonstrated a new platform on Thursday that, if implemented in conjunction with a proposed United Nations program, could provide a significant tool to combat climate change. Its new "high-performance satellite imagery-processing engine" can process terabytes of information on thousands of Google servers while giving access to the results online. The platform, which was demonstrated on Thursday at the International Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, would allow anyone using the tool to monitor whether or not trees were being chopped down in a given forest. It analyzes satellite images to show forest changes over a given time period.
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The Polarization of the Data Center Industry (at least for now): Part 1 of 2
Explore Article TechNet Blogs (Dec 9 2009) Monitoring , Power and Cooling
I read a lot about what others are doing in the industry, and a recent post by Rich Miller of Data Center Knowledge caught my attention. It was titled “Gartner: Energy Woes to Worsen in 2010” and he posted a Graph from Gartner showing that only about 50 percent of the IT professionals are using some form of energy metrics in the data center. At first I was not surprised, because as many of you heard me complain in the past, “this industry is moving too slow when it comes to efficiency”. Clearly, the adoption of efficiency metrics is quite ...
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Harnessing the Power of IT to Drive Sustainability
Explore Article greenercomputing.com (Dec 8 2009) Monitoring , Emissions , Fossil Fuel
For the next 10 days, world leaders are meeting in Copenhagen for the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009 (also known as COP15). There is wide hope that by the end of the conference, world leaders can significantly advance a joint global commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and minimize changes to our climate. Today, a growing number of governments and scientists have endorsed a goal of limiting global average temperature rise to less than two degrees Celsius compared to pre-industrial levels. According to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, released in 2007, meeting this ...
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IBM Offers Data Centre Monitoring Via The Cloud
Explore Article Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Dec 8 2009) Monitoring , Cloud Computing
IBM is giving IT managers the ability to monitor their data centre remotely thanks to Tivoli Live Monitoring Services IT managers not longer need to drive out to check on their data centres, but has now monitor it remotely after Big Blue announced Tivoli Live Monitoring Services. Tivoli Live Monitoring Services is a subscription-based offering that is hosted by IBM Global Services, on a Big Blue cloud computing environment. Key targets for the new service are midmarket companies, according to Al Zollar, general manager of IBM’s Tivoli business. “This will give the smaller businesses the same powerful monitoring [capabilities] that ...
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Smart Meters Allow Companies To Monitor Home-Worker Carbon
Explore Article Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Dec 8 2009) Monitoring , Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Networking
A new service could help businesses more easily include remote staff in carbon calculations Teleworking has been promoted as a way to help companies cut energy use and carbon emissions by cutting staff travel, but there have been problems including the C02 consumption of home-workers in the total used by the business as a whole. But home energy management specialist AlertMe and energy meter company AMEE have now developed a new service which they believe will allow companies to include the carbon generated by home-workers in any environmental emission totals. Launched this week, the Carbon Tracker service allows home-workers to ...
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