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IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced today it has achieved Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold certification for its new data center located at the company’s Research Triangle Park (RTP) campus. The new facility, which is the company’s most technologically advanced green data center, officially opened in February 2010 and is IBM’s first LEED Gold certified data center. IBM was awarded the LEED Gold certification by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) which certifies which facilities meet the nationally accepted benchmark for the design, construction and operation of high performance green buildings. A key factor in IBM’s LEED recognition was the company’s re-use of an existing building on its RTP campus. The construction reused 95 percent of the original building’s shell and in the process IBM recycled 90 percent of the materials from the original building and ensured 25 percent of newly purchased ... (Read Full Article)

The European public sector is still in the early stages of adopting green IT, according to a new Dell-commissioned whitepaper published by industry analyst firm Ovum. The whitepaper, available today, is based on Ovum’s analysis of European Union and national government policies and initiatives, as well as interviews with IT managers and other contacts within the European public sector. “Although the majority of our contacts believed that it was very important to reduce greenhouse gases to save the planet, they also believed that reducing costs was equally if not more important,” writes Ovum analyst Sarah Burnett, who penned the whitepaper. “This indicates that green IT for the sake of the planet by itself is not considered enough of a driver for change. It has to make business sense and deliver monetary value if it is to be widely adopted. (Read Full Article)