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Best Practices for Greening Your Data Center

By Konstantin Gorshkov on June 14, 2010 4 Comments A/C, air, air conditioning, baseline, benchmarking, budget, Carbon, CISSP, cloud computing, cold aisle, computing, conversion process, cooling, corporate average datacenter efficiency, costs, D.C., Data Center, Data center Efficiency, DCiE, different energy efficiency calculator, economizer, efficiency, energy, energy efficiency, energy savings calculator, energy usage, Five Strategies for Cutting Data Center Energy Costs Through Enhanced Cooling Efficiency, footprint, green IT.green computing, Green-IT, greening your data center, hot aisle, How to Benchmark Datacenter Energy Costs, HVAC, information technology, InfoWorld, IT application and storage solutions, konstantin-gorshkov, Matthew D. Sarrel, operational efficiency, passive, power management, power supplies, power usage, Power Usage Effectiveness, PUE, PUE/DCiE calculator, ROI, server utilization, server utilization percentage, server virtualization, temperature, The Green Grid, virtualization, virtualized IT solutions

Best Practices for Greening Your Data Center

Rising energy costs and a focus on Green IT mean that it is time to find ways of reducing energy consumption and cutting data center bills. There are several best practices that will help guide you towards a greener and more efficient data center solution. by Konstantin Gorshkov, Green Economy Post When it comes to […]

A Day in The Life of a Chief Sustainability Officer

By Kathrin Winkler on November 10, 2009 6 Comments APJ., Battery regulations, best practices, Climate Corps, corporate sustainability, CSO, data sets, DESC, E3, EHS, EMC, energy consumption, energy efficiency, Energy Star, engineering, Engineering's Energy Efficiency and Effectiveness, environment, environmental, Environmental Sustainability Board, eWaste regulation, facilities, GHG emissions, Green Business, Green Champions, Green-IT, Innovation Conference, mentoring, Principles of Environmental Sustainability, procurement, product compliance, ranking, renewable energy, RFP, risks, social, strategy, supply chain, sustainability, The Green Grid, vendor, waste, WEEE, WEF, WRI

The following is an account of one day on the job with Kathrin Winkler. She is Sr. Director and Chief Sustainability Officer at EMC Corporation, where she has a history of taking on entirely new roles in which she has to fill in the interstices between more traditional functions. She took on the full-time sustainability position in July of 2008.