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UN Climate deal leaves all to pay for - by Peter Judge

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Dec 11 2011)

...his is progress since, the disastrous COP15 summit in Copenhagen in 2009. Vastly over-hyped, it saw President Obama publicly failing to win over the Chinese and was surrounded by overheated arguments about the so-ca... (Read Full Article)

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Lessons From President Obama's First CIO

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... very much a bespoke system but Karlung has now been converted to the idea of modular. Lessons From President Obama's First CIO Cory Edwards Cory Edwards, Dell 0 comments, 0 called-out + Comment now + Comment now Po...... than the situation Vivek Kundra inherited as the first C.I.O. of the U.S. government for President Barack Obama. A spellbound audience had the pleasure of hearing him keynote a recent ... (Read Full Article)

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Steven Chu's Gamble on Green Energy

Explore Forbes.com (Nov 6 2011) Emissions , Servers

For better or worse, Steven Chu, President Obama’s Nobel-prize winning Secretary of Energy, is likely to have greater influence over the world’s fut... (Read Full Article)

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What it Will Take to Make Renewable Energy a Reality in the US

Explore The Indypendent (Sep 29 2011) Cap and Trade , Carbon Tax , Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Nuclear , Solar , Wind

...o leadership from the White House, and worse from other quarters,” says Warren. In January 2009, as Barack Obama was preparing to take office, Denis Hayes, national coordinator of the first Earth Day and now head... (Read Full Article)

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Signs of Progress on Government 2.0

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Sep 21 2011) Cloud Computing

...nology Officer for Government, Aneesh Chopra is the US Chief Technology Officer and an Assistant to President Obama for Technology within the Office of Science & Technology Policy speak on a panel on Government......by citizens. Obama Hails Open Government Across town at the United Nations Chopra’s boss, President Barack Obama, hailed the progress made by the eight founding nations in the Open Government Initiative, and said... (Read Full Article)

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Web Host Rackspace Names CSO Sabre Holdings CEO to Board

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...ss, and senior vice president and general manager of Sabre Business Travel Solutions. He is also on President Obama's Management Advisory Board, and serves on the US Commerce Department's Travel and Tourism Advisory... (Read Full Article)

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White House Names a New Chief of Information Technology

Explore The New York Times (Aug 4 2011) Cloud Computing

..., including a stint as an assistant to Bill Gates, the co-founder. Mr. VanRoekel was a supporter of President Obama, attended the inauguration, and after a conversation with Julius Genachowski, the new chairman of t... (Read Full Article)

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Inspiration for the Low Carbon Data Center, 7x24 Exchange keynote by Robert F Kennedy jr

Explore greenm3.com (Jun 13 2011)

...article that captures part of what Robert F. Kennedy Jr. presented. If ever an issue deserved President Obama's promise of change, this is it. Mining syndicates are detonating 2,500 tons of explosives each day... (Read Full Article)

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Internet Traffic Surges on Bin Laden News

Explore Data Center Knowledge (May 2 2011)

...ead quickly. “Twitter reached more than 4000 Tweets per second tonight at the beginning and end of President Obama’s speech,” the Twitter communications department reported. While the levels of traffic were not... (Read Full Article)

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Tips for data center efficiency

Explore csemag.com (Mar 16 2011) Fossil Fuel , Servers

...utive Order 13514, Federal Leadership in Environmental, Energy, and Economic Performance, signed by President Obama Oct. 5, 2009, outlines a mandate for reducing energy consumption, water use, and greenhouse gas emi... (Read Full Article)

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Twitter Struggles as Japan News Traffic Surges

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Mar 16 2011) Nuclear , Microblogging

... reaching 4.2 million per minute, roughly the equivalent of traffic on election night in 2008, when Barack Obama was elected president. The performance problems came a day after Twitter began offering users the o... (Read Full Article)

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Industry Trends: Part 2 - Business Efficiencies, Regulation, and Security Risk Management

Explore Data Center Post (Feb 23 2011)

... improve the numbers. A potential larger area focus in 2011 will likely be on the Clean Air Act and President Obama’s introduction of a Clean Energy Standard he referenced in his State of the Union address last mont... (Read Full Article)

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Spurring the Feds to Pursue Green from Data Centers to Cafeterias

Explore GreenBiz.com (Feb 22 2011) Servers

...eral environmental executive with the Council for Environmental Quality offers an insider's view of President Obama's Green Gov Challenge and government efforts to rein in energy use in a conversation with GreenBiz ... (Read Full Article)

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What Can We Expect on Climate and Energy in China in 2011?

Explore World Resources Institute (Jan 5 2011) Construction , Cap and Trade , Carbon Tax , Emissions , Wind

...the coming year: Clean energy high on the agenda for President Hu’s visit to the U.S in January. President Obama will host a visit by Chinese President Hu Jintao on January 19 in Washington, D.C. This bilateral m... (Read Full Article)

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Analysis: Obama under pressure to delay EPA carbon rules

Explore uk.reuters.com (Jan 5 2011) Cap and Trade , Carbon Tax , Emissions

...xcess for the political right but an institution of last resort for environmentalists. President Barack Obama has long vowed that the EPA would enforce legal requirements to keep the air clean if Congress was ... (Read Full Article)

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