IBM and the Environment
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Full article: IBM and the Environment
Coverage in the Press
- Could IBM Be the World's First Green Business Behemoth? (22-Aug-07)
- IBM Linux Initiative Greens Data Centers (9-Aug-07)
- IBM aims to become Big Green, says Butler Group (7-Aug-07)
- IBM sees green in environmental tech (6-Aug-07)
- IBM: Dinosaurs were green (1-Aug-07)
- System i and the green skeptic (16-Jul-07)
- IBM touts greener and safer tape storage (11-Jul-07)
- IBM unveils green Linux push (8-Aug-07)
- IBM's Project Big Green Spurs Global Shift (9-Aug-07)
Text of IBM Articles on IBM and its close partners
- Servers move from a guzzle to a sip, on w3 (1-Aug-07)
- Lisa Lindblom on 2007 Market Outlook – 2Q07
- Andy McFarlane on Climate Change (25-Jul-07)
- Larry Hirst on areas of interest for IBM UK: Energy and Climate (23-Jul-07)
- Hursley leads the way in efforts to go green (4-Jul-07)
- Welcome to Green Driving
- Turning your Servers green
- Lenovo tops eco-friendly league
- Green champion Ecotricity moves ahead with IBM
Analyst Views and IBM
Summaries
Full article: Servers move from a guzzle to a sip, on w3 (1-Aug-07)
IBM is not jumping on the green bandwagon. We’ve been driving it for nearly 40 years. Now IBM is dramatically simplifying our IT infrastructure, identifying almost 4,000 distributed servers at its data centers around the world whose work will be consolidated onto about 30 mainframes. Power and cooling costs alone will be reduced by a 80%.
Since Thomas Watson’s call to action in 1971, IBM has been an environmental leader. In 1973, CEO Frank Cary updated IBM’s corporate policy on environmental protection, stating: “IBM will reduce to a minimum the ecological impact of all its activities."
Full article: System i and the green skeptic (16-Jul-07)
The article wonders whether System i really is more energy-efficient per workload than the equivalent computing power of scaled-out x86 boxes, because of its higher utilisation and use of virtualisation and logical partitions. (Does anyone really believe that IBM’s endeavours are environmentally altruistic?) It applauds the Power6 processor, which is twice as fast as the previous generation using almost no more energy.
Full article: Turning your Servers green
IBM, HP, Sun and AMD have launched The Green Grid, a non-profit consortium which aims to cut energy consumption at computer data centres by encouraging power-saving measures.
Full article: Lenovo tops eco-friendly league
Lenovo is top (displacing Nokia) and Apple is bottom of Greenpeace's league table. Lenovo offers take-back and recycling in all countries where it operates.
Links to IBM papers on the Environment
- 'The green data center'
- 'Incentive programs for data center thermal analysis, energy assessments and server consolidation projects'
- Big Green: IBM and the ROI of Environmental Leadership (April-07)
