The top Green-IT organizations: Hard-wired to be green

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	The top Green-IT organizations: Hard-wired to be green Computerworld's top Green-IT organizations for 2011 have woven energy-saving initiatives into the very fabric of their IT strategies Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Cisco Systems Improve Organizational Communications Cisco Collaboration Solutions offer collaborative technologies, cultures, and processes to enhance information delivery to employees. These solutions help cut costs, support better product launches, and improve productivity and training. You can promote customer success, boost growth and profitability, and gain other tangible business results. Click to continue In this Issue Cray to Build 20-Petaflop System New low-power memory could challenge DDR3 Obama issues order aimed at preventing federal data leaks FCC warns retailers to stop selling signal-jamming devices IT stress test aims to prove systems are tough Software development success is still elusive The Grill: Linglong He Thornton May: Managing the fears that define the information age Kaiser Permanente: Slashes data center power by 7.2 million kilowatt-hours KPMG: Aims to reduce its carbon footprint by 25% through environmental stewardship State Street: Compression technology helped cut storage use by 50% Allstate: Reduces nearly 3,000 servers or devices in 18 months NBC Universal: Retired or recycled 47 tons of hardware Baker Hughes: Wake-on-LAN technology has resulted in 40% energy savings Northrop Grumman: Virtualizing or retiring approximately 3,000 servers Citigroup: Desktop standardization cuts energy costs by $6 million per year Nixon Peabody: 300 physical servers were swapped for 30 VMware ESX servers Raytheon: Boosting data center temperatures cuts energy use by 30% Prudential Financial: 1,000 servers moved into a virtual environment JM Family: Works to eliminate more than 1,400 physical servers Opinion: How CIOs can help curb e-waste Methodology: How we picked the 2011 Top Green-IT Organizations Career Watch: Combatting doublespeak Scot Finnie: Steve Jobs' indelible mark RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: FileMaker Resource: iOS White Paper and Deployment Kit Quickly Develop and Deploy iOS Solutions. With FileMaker Pro, iPad and iPhone solutions can be prototyped and completed in hours or days versus weeks or months. No iOS application programming or design experience is required. Read the white paper and download the kit. Cray to Build 20-Petaflop System Cray was awarded a $97 million contract to build a supercomputer that could potentially deliver up to 20 petaflops of peak performance, or 20 quadrillion floating operations per second, to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Read More New low-power memory could challenge DDR3 Samsung Electronics and Micron Technology have jointly launched a consortium to support and develop a new low-power memory called Hybrid Memory Cube, which could challenge DDR3 memory in high-performance computers in a few years. Read More Obama issues order aimed at preventing federal data leaks President Obama has issued an executive order that aims to reform rules for the sharing and securing of data by federal agencies. Read More FCC warns retailers to stop selling signal-jamming devices The Federal Communications Commission has warned 20 online retailers to stop selling illegal devices that jam cell phone, GPS and Wi-Fi signals.. Read More IT stress test aims to prove systems are tough In an experiment that began in January, decommissioned Trinity Health servers, networking gear and storage systems have been running outdoors in a simple shed without failure. Takeaway: IT equipment appears to be a lot tougher than conventional wisdom says. Insider (registration required) Read More Software development success is still elusive The path to better projects may be for software developers to become better people. An organizational psychologist contends that the source of project dysfunction is generally a project manager. Insider (registration required) Read More The Grill: Linglong He Linglong He, CIO at Quicken Loans, leverages the company's stellar reputation in the industry to recruit the most talented IT professionals. Read More Thornton May: Managing the fears that define the information age One big fear is that the volume of information that must be known is growing far faster than organizations' capacity to know. Insider (registration required) Read More Kaiser Permanente: Slashes data center power by 7.2 million kilowatt-hours Specialized green-IT teams at this healthcare company crank out dozens of eco-friendly ideas. The initiatives they spawn range from changes in the data center that yield big savings of power and money to a decision to use biodegradable eating utensils in dining areas. Read More KPMG: Aims to reduce its carbon footprint by 25% through environmental stewardship KPMG has made the use of green technologies a key component of its efforts to optimize its investments in IT, including a data center transformation that is expected to save about 15% in energy costs. Read More State Street: Compression technology helped cut storage use by 50% State Street is using compression and deduplication technologies to reduce stored data, tackling a multiyear virtualization program and implementing processing on demand, an infrastructure as a service that provides on-demand capacity. Read More Allstate: Reduces nearly 3,000 servers or devices in 18 months Over the past 18 months, Allstate Insurance consolidated its four data centers into two and recently earned LEED Gold certification for its data center in Rochelle, Ill. Read More WHITE PAPER: AMD Building a Virtualized Data Center CIOs are wrestling with new business demands and they are turning to virtualization to consolidate resources and make this happen. Learn how an AMD technology-based virtual strategy can help. Learn More! NBC Universal: Retired or recycled 47 tons of hardware At NBC Universal, a new data center replaced 300,000 feet of copper cable and a multisite telepresence system cut internal travel budgets by as much as 80% in some divisions. Read More Baker Hughes: Wake-on-LAN technology has resulted in 40% energy savings Baker Hughes weaves energy reduction into its internal IT strategies, using a four-pronged approach of awareness, planning, harvesting and prevention. Read More Northrop Grumman: Virtualizing or retiring approximately 3,000 servers Northrop Grumman's "greeNG" sustainability program aims to reduce the firm's greenhouse gas emissions, manage automatically its desktop power and migrate some 100 server rooms and data centers to just three enterprise data centers. Read More Citigroup: Desktop standardization cuts energy costs by $6 million per year As part of a data center transformation project, Citigroup's newly constructed data center uses 800 kilowatts less power than conventionally designed data centers for the same footprint, for a 30% reduction in energy costs. Read More Nixon Peabody: 300 physical servers were swapped for 30 VMware ESX servers Nixon Peabody's IT department centralized its data centers, consolidated its storage assets and virtualized its servers. Its work cut power consumption by approximately 30%. Read More Raytheon: Boosting data center temperatures cuts energy use by 30% Raytheon's IT team took cues from the company's initiatives for data center energy efficiency and applied the same steps to other areas, focusing on its networking and telecommunications infrastructure during the past year. Read More Prudential Financial: 1,000 servers moved into a virtual environment Prudential's green-IT initiatives include using alternative energy sources to help power its data centers. In a project expected to be completed this year, solar panels are being installed at its Roseland, N.J., data center. Read More JM Family: Works to eliminate more than 1,400 physical servers JM Family first started to virtualize its data center servers in 2006, and since then, it has eliminated more than 1,400 physical servers and has avoided using more than 5.5 million kilowatt-hours of electricity annually. Read More Opinion: How CIOs can help curb e-waste CIOs play an important role in controlling e-waste through purchasing and life-cycle management decisions, as well as community outreach initiatives. Read More Methodology: How we picked the 2011 Top Green-IT Organizations Survey methodology for Computerworld's fourth annual Top Green-IT Organizations report. Read More Career Watch: Combatting doublespeak A Rutgers English professor wants business to talk straight. Read More Scot Finnie: Steve Jobs' indelible mark Steve Jobs' passing is a profound event for Apple, and for the entire tech industry, says Computerworld editor-in-chief Scot Finnie. Read More
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