Dell released its 2009 Corporate Social Responsibility Report (PDF) this week. Within are many statistics related to the IT giant’s work on the environmental front. Here are some of the highlights:Lower Carbon Emissions:Completed 88 projects to save 17 million kWh…
Linux Ships on a Third of Dell Netbooks
An interesting little factoid emerged today. According to David Finch, nearly a third of the netbooks sold by Dell ship with Linux, Ubuntu to be precise.OSNews reports:Even though Dell is only the fifth-largest manufacturer of netbooks in the world, it…
Utah Hearts Four-Day Workweeks
Last August, Utah moved its many of the state’s government offices to a four-day work week. Apart from a nice long three-day weekend every week for many of the state’s workers, other benefits include the 13 percent savings attributed to…
Green Stats: U.S. Wind Power
It took a while, but the U.S. is a leader in wind power production, culminating in 28,635 MW as of April 30, 2009. See a decade’s worth of growth via an animated map courtesy of the U.S. Department of…
IBM Tops Green500
No stranger to ranking high on the Top500 list of supercomputers, IBM is also racking up eco-points with a formidable presence on the Green500 list. In the latest ranking, IBM dominates the top 20, with the first spot going to…
IBM Study: Green IT on Midsized Businesses' Radar
IBM’s survey of midsized businesses, “Inside the Midmarket: A 2009 Perspective” (PDF), reveals that a large majority of organizations in the 100 – 1000 employee bracket have Green IT squarely in their radar: This year’s survey also illustrates the…
Surprising E-waste Stat of the Day
As a nation, we love our TVs. So much so that we’re keeping nearly 100 million of old, likely CRT-based relics collecting dust. The New York Times reports: The Environmental Protection Agency estimates 99.1 million televisions sit unused in closets…
Security Risks of 'Hyper-extended Enterprises'
As businesses adopt cloud-based services, there’s a danger that security may not be getting the attention it deserves, according to a study conducted by IDG Research for RSA Security. Sixteen percent of those polled are planning to start migrating some…
Datacenter Operators Planning for Economy, Energy Efficiency
IT managers are feeling the economic pinch and they’re planning accordingly. Thirty-five percent of the 120 data center, facility and IT managers polled in Emerson Network Power’s Data Center Users Group (DCUG) survey have delayed plans to expand or build…
US Gov't Printing: A $440 Million Waste
Lexmark and O’Keeffe & Company recently polled federal agencies about their printing habits and what they found would make any eco-conscious taxpayer fume: Federal employees on average print 30 pages every work day, totalling 7,200 pages printed per employee, per…
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