Resolutions, Yoga and Green IT: The Top 5 Pitfalls of Sustainability

Credit to Author: Kevin Brown| Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Every time I attend an IT industry event, it seems like everyone wants to chat about Green IT and sustainability. They’re eager, sometimes even excited, to get their company on the right path immediately. But they have no idea how to start. It reminds me…

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Pitching Efficiency: From the Ballpark to the Server Rack – The Moneyball Analogy for Data Center Mastery

Credit to Author: Matt Bailey| Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2024 15:58:00 +0000

In 2003, Michael Lewis unveiled Moneyball to the world —a book explaining the strategy used by savvy Major League Baseball teams to shift from traditional scouting to a more analytical approach for assembling a competitive team. As a zealous basketball fan and college student then,…

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When innovative tech meets highly engaged employees: Green IT initiatives for IMPACT

Credit to Author: Elizabeth Hackenson| Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2024 13:35:10 +0000

Measuring and optimizing the environmental footprint of business IT systems is more important than ever due to the tremendous acceleration of digitization we’ve witnessed in recent years.  At Schneider Electric, we’ve created a holistic Green IT program consisting of four pillars that aim to assess,…

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Scope out your Emissions: A Simple Tool to Assess your Building’s Electricity Impact

Credit to Author: Wendy Torell| Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2024 13:00:00 +0000

We need power to keep the lights on – to keep our businesses and our lives humming. We also know where that power comes from greatly impacts the environment. What we haven’t had is a simple, direct, and visible way to understand and quantify how…

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The EU Energy Efficiency Directive and its impact on CIOs, Data Centre Owners and Operators

Credit to Author: Alison Matte| Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2024 13:00:00 +0000

In my role as sustainability leader for EcoStruxure IT, I have the unique vantage point of seeing how the IT and Data Centre industry is changing to limit its impact on the environment. Data centres are voracious energy consumers, accounting for nearly 2.7% of European electricity usage…

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Failed unsubscribes could be a clue your data's out of control

Credit to Author: eschuman@thecontentfirm.com| Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2024 03:00:00 -0800

Anyone who’s eveer tried to unsubscribe to an email list knows that “unsubscribe” button never seems to work — except to verify your email account is working. But what if that failure arises from something more problematic than an unethical person ignoring the request?

What if it is the latest symptom of the overly distributed data problem?

That’s the same issue that undermines compliance and legal discovery rules such as GDPR’s Right To Be Forgotten rule. It’s also the same problem that makes it all-but-impossible for enterprises to have current and comprehensive datamaps. 

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