Green Dell gets greener with new green initiative
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So green they crap leprechauns A lot of PC makers are riding the going green pony pretty hard these days, but the folks at Dell â you've got to give them credit â are making a show out of boiling the poor thing down to eco-friendly glue.â¦
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HP and Dell, which together sell more than half the country's PCs, get kudos for using more eco-friendly components and recycling their products when consumers discard them. By the Associated Press.
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IBM's silicon-recycling announcement on Tuesday couldn't have originated from a more apt location: Vermont, with its high-tech ambitions and green sensibility. So what does it take for a scrappy, forward-thinking state to get in on the technology biz-dev fun? One word comes to mind: broadband.
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Customers including Allstate Insurance are actively pursuing green strategies, but say they want standards to help them gauge data center energy efficiency.
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Investors, corporations are warming to the idea that there's money in being green.
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Green ITÂ is something of a chameleon that appeals to different users on different levels. From a 10,000-foot perspective, it's hard to knock the benefits of energy efficiency, recycling and vendors working side by side with users to promote the green agenda. However, many users are finding it difficult to adopt a technology that is not characterized by a wide selection of physical products that they can buy and implement in their IT infrastructures today.
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Dell gets set to roll out its PowerEdge 1855 blade server line a home-grown design, this month.
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Meanwhile, Dell plants some trees... IBM has beefed up its data output while apparently watching its carbon footprint step by adding a new $86m "green data centre" space to its Boulder site in Colorado, USA.â¦
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'Green' PCs adapt to EPA's newest Energy Star label ahead of schedule.
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By Nic Fildes  The drive to make computers more environmentally friendly has been given an extra boost after the technology giants Google and Intel joined the rush to prove their green credentials.   The move was widely welcomed by environmental groups.
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Microsoft and Dell launched a new initiative program for their enterprise consumers that promise to be productive and cost efficient.
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(InfoWorld) - Dell will neutralize its carbon emissions and become carbon neutral by the end of 2008, chairman and CEO Michael Dell announced Wednesday. Dell is the first major computer manufacturer to announce its intention to balance its carbon emissions with activities that reduce carbon in the atmosphere. Companies have a responsibility to improve the environment, Dell said during a speech in Washington, D.C. "There's been a time in history of business where it's more important for organizations of all sizes to partner together to positively impact the Earth that well all share," Dell said. "It's not enough for Dell to be an environmental leader. We also need to partner with our customers ... to dramatically improve our own customers' environmental impacts." Dell will reduce its net carbon emissions in several ways, Dell said. The company will focus on creating more energy-efficient products and will purchase more energy-efficient electrical power, he said. Dell, the world's second-largest PC manufacturer, will also push its major suppliers to report and reduce their carbon emissions. If a supplier's carbon emissions are excessive, the company may penalize the supplier, although Dell didn't offer details about the penalties. Dell has also expanded itsÂ Plant a Tree for MeÂ program, which allows individual customers to pay a small amount to plant a tree as a way to offset the energy consumption of the laptops or PCs they purchase from the company. Dell has announced a Plant a Forest for Me program, partnering with companies including Salesforce.com, Ask.com, and Advanced Micro DevicesÂ in a reforesting program intended to offset carbon emissions. Companies can do many things to reduce carbon emissions, Dell said. They can purchase energy-efficient IT equipment, consolidate servers through virtualization, and use software to turn off computers and monitors after employees go home. Customers demanding energy efficiency are pushing IT vendors away from the old price/performance metric to a new "performance per watt" metric, Dell said. "Thinking about IT in terms of performance per watt forces businesses like ours to rethink the way products are designed and the way they're used," Dell said. In June, the company set the goal of becoming "the greenest technology on the planet." Governments can also play a role in encouraging companies to protect the environment, Dell added. Governments could give research credits to companies to improve energy efficiency and could provide incentives for companies to encourage green policies such asÂ telecommuting, he said. The 3.9 million telecommuters in the United States saved 840 million gallons of gasoline in a year, according to a recent Consumer Electronics Association report. Dell will continue to work with other tech vendors on environmental issues, Dell said. "While we vigorously compete in many areas in our business, when it comes to the environment, there actually are not competitors, only partners," he said. Dan Burton, senior vice president for global public policy at Salesforce.com, praised Dell's speech. With its focus on improving the environment through its business practices, "Dell is really redefining what is corporate philanthropy," Burton said.
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Business & money: Two 'green' stores will include a series of eco-features aimed at reducing their carbon footprint.
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By Hazimin Sulaiman  TECH companies are gradually moving towards a greener Earth with a little push from the Climate Savers Computing Initiative (CSCI) pioneered by Intel and Google. The initiative is rapidly gaining momentum among major IT players.
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IT can help the U.S. go green, technology CEOs said at a conference in Washington.
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Dell has announced the availability of virtualisation services.
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Don't expect to see a Dell Labs that focuses on fundamental research or a major move into highly bespoke "Big Iron" servers. But we are seeing a Dell that is showing some flexibility on what were once all-or-nothing principles.