Top Green-IT Companies and Vendors
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A list of the top companies working to cut energy consumption through their IT equipment and using technology to conserve energy and reduce carbon emissions.
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InfoWorld - Applimation is buying fellow application data management vendor Gamma Enterprise Technologies in a deal the companies claim will create the largest single vendor of its kind in the world, with more than 250 customers. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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Pay more to pay less Intel and Google have taken it upon themselves to lead yet another "green computing" project.â¦
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Eighty-five percent of users responding to a recent survey said environmental factors are important in planning IT operations, but only one quarter said they have written "green" initiatives into their company's purchasing processes. Meanwhile, critics of "green IT" say if vendors can sell by making their products appeal to that "feel-good" aspect of the market, then they know they'll get money out of it.
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Sweet Caroline Here's Sun Microsystems. Ahead of the curve with utility computing? Check. Interested in gaining the business of today's internet companies? Big check. Full of server-side software skills? Check. Behind Amazon.com of all companies in actually putting these things together as a product or service companies can buy? Yep.â¦
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By BREE FOWLER NEW YORK - The increased demand for &quot;green&quot; vehicles is spilling over to the rental car counter, where many more drivers will soon be able to choose a hybrid vehicle. Hertz Global Holdings Inc.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Businesses in Sweden, Ireland and Britain top the list when it comes to the use of information technology to improve their operations, according to a country-by-country survey. The United States, which was in the top three last year, slipped four places.
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Dell plans to become the greenest IT company by reducing greenhouse emissions.
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The annual Forbes ranking of the top tech deal makers.
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Swarming to the next new thing Over the past four years, venture capitalists have tossed huge amounts of cash at "green-tech" startups. The green, er, field has become saturated with speculative funding, rivaling even the two mainstays of Valley vulture capitalists: IT and life sciences.â¦
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(InfoWorld) - Open-source database vendor Greenplum had cause for celebration Tuesday, announcing both $15 million in venture capital financing and the appointment of a new CEO. The startup named Sun veteran Bill Cook as its new head. He spent 19 years at Sun and held a variety of positions there, including, most recently, a three-year stint as senior vice president of sales. After leaving Sun, Cook took on a similar role in heading up sales and services at Linux hardware and clustering company Penguin Computing. In August 2006, Greenplum announced a partnership with Sun to develop dedicated data warehousing appliances using the startup's database and the Sun Fire X4500 hardware server running Sun's Solaris operating system. Tuesday, the two companies unveiled their first customer for the Sun Data Warehouse Appliance, Smart Communications, the leading wireless service provider in the Philippines. Greenplum has developed its commercial open-source databases based on the open-source PostgreSQL databaseÂ and hasÂ aimed at users of data warehousing software and Bizgres to support BI applications. Sierra Ventures led the $15 million financing round in Greenplum. Three previous investors in the startup, venture capital companies Mission Ventures, Dawntreader Ventures, and EDF Ventures, also contributed. Greenplum will additionally benefit from the $4 million line of credit that Comerica Bank is making available to the company, the vendor said. Greenplum, which is based in San Mateo, California, plans to use the funds to continue development of its database as well as to expand its sales and marketing efforts around the world. That expansion is already underway with Greenplum on Tuesday also announcing the establishment of its Asia-Pacific regional headquarters in Singapore under the leadership of former NetezzaÂ executive Vinay Samuel. Netezza is a player in the data warehousing appliance market. Â
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Being ''green'' is all the rage with technology companies these days, but what's not clear is whether or not the environment-friendly approach is bringing in more greenbacks.
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The world&#39;s top PC vendor, Hewlett-Packard, beat competitors Dell, Lenovo, and Apple to provide the best online customer support, according to a survey released on Tuesday by The Customer Respect Group.HP was also rated as providing the best online customer service among a sample of 18 technology companies surveyed, ahead of Intuit, Xerox, Microsoft, and Lexmark, according to the survey, which rated online support for the first quarter of 2008.Using metrics, including Web site usability, content accessibility, and responsiveness to queries, the survey independently measured a customer&#39;s interaction with a technology company via the Internet, the company said.Dell lagged in 12th place behind hardware vendors HP, Lenovo, Apple, and Gateway, according to the survey. Dell has a good community site linked from the home page, but the support pages are difficult to locate, said Terry Golesworthy, president of The Customer Respect Group.&quot;I think the story with Dell is that they have excellent materials and content, but it is not always as usable by the more naive users,&quot; Golesworthy said. Dell needs to mature support to cater to new users without neglecting the self-service experts, Golesworthy said.Apple&#39;s product offerings are fairly simple compared to Dell&#39;s, and so is its online support, Golesworthy said. Apple provides no chat or e-mail support options and encourages users to contact Apple through stores and by telephone to resolve issues.Apple&#39;s message may be about being simple, but a major glitch could become a big problem as self-help provided by Apple is minimal, Golesworthy said. Apple has plenty of technical articles on its Web site, which could be hard to locate at critical times.While some issues linger, vendors are finding better use of technologies&#160;such as&#160;RSS, online chat, e-mail, forums, and self-support Web content to support novice and expert PC users, the survey said.Technical customers are generally well serviced on location, so companies are looking to provide more basic information to support novice PC users, Golesworthy said. The documentation on some Web sites is being aligned for novice users to first identify a problem, then download the relevant drivers and programs to solve problems.Companies are also adopting more interactive and real-time techniques to provide customer support, the survey said. Online chat is challenging e-mail as a support option, with more than 50 percent of companies surveyed including online chat, an improvement from 30 percent six months ago.Online chat provides quicker response, cuts down on customer support costs, and eliminates user concerns about speaking to support agents with foreign accents, Golesworthy said.Some Web sites had data-intensive home pages that took time to load, but it could become commonplace as companies try to provide better and more interactive support to users, the survey said.Two upcoming technologies -- remote support and intelligent monitoring -- could help improve customer support provided by vendors, Golesworthy said. With remote access, technicians will assume control of a machine from a remote location to fix a problem. Instead of wading through pages of content to diagnose an issue, intelligent monitoring will provide a clearer choice for users to diagnose and resolve issues.Sun was rated as having the simplest Web site, followed by Xerox, Microsoft, and Apple. Intuit was rated as being most responsive to customers&#39; problems, followed by Microsoft, Symantec, and HP.
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Environmental group Greenpeace on Wednesday issued the first quarterly update on the technology industry&#8217;s performance on environmental issues. While the group recognized many companies are improving Apple does not appear to be among them &#8212; Apple remains in last place.
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IBM tops in among IT companies in Climate Counts survey, while Apple, Amazon, and eBay are bottom.
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The idea of renewable energy at home is  no longer as distant as an offshore wind farm. More companies  are waking up to the popularity of green energy and the Web  hosts many sites showing steps people can take -- or gadgets  they can buy -- to use renewable technology, from renting a  solar panel to burning calories with a pedal-powered washing  machine.
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How green is your company? Answer 10 quick questions about your company's current energy-saving IT efforts and read about ways to get greener.