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Greener Computing

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — In the growing universe of green IT hardware, software and services, there are two kinds of technologies, according to a new report from Forrester Research: Green IT 1.0 and green IT 2.0.

The 1.0 technologies are those that green the IT infrastructure of a company — like virtualization and power management — while 2.0 technologies are those that help the company green other aspects of its business, such as videoconferencing or supply chain management software.

An interesting read about the evolution of green computing, the evolution of green computing needs to continue, but as with virtualization, we need to recognize everyone is at a different stage in their IT lifecycle, that remembering the basic steps, getting buy-in a the easy level is the first step to adopting green IT as a strategy. Let us not scare people by saying refresh your equipment, re-write your application, and first start on the basics, power down the pcs at night, look at blank screensavers or enable power management, going forward you can see what steps you can take with your infrastructure, small steps, then we can move on to the next level in the data center, in the application code and the server/network/storage infrastructure.

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