I caught a great radio program on BBC 4 last week investigating the benefits of Working from Home. Below is summary overview. What I particularly like about flexible working is that it can provide benefits all round from the business who reduces cost...

I read a recent article comparing the cost of paper versus electronic versions. What caught my attention was the cost of ink – 469% more than the cost of blood! The article went on to mention an ingeniously simple way to reduce printing costs. Switching...

New improve power management on its way out of the box….. Power Management The goal of this capability is to enable Configuration Manager to further reduce the operational costs of IT by providing basic power management features native to the product...

Blatant cut and paste from Mark Aggar’s blog which I recommend to those who want to hear from Microsoftee whose day job is Environmental Technology Strategy :-) Mindteck updated their 2009 white paper which explores power use of various PC platforms using...

  Microsoft Consulting Services have started the development of a personal healthcare solution for the government funded, Assisted Living Innovation Platform (ALIP).   The project will create an online health solution for consumers and is built...

  Here is a great example of cloud services democratising the political process  - assuming we solve digital access divide. Still loads of opportunity to move government services online improving efficiency and reducing environmental impact...

I was working on my resume and thought it might be interesting to see what were the main key words I was using so I searched for a tag cloud generator and came across tagcrowd.com which turns out to be quite handy as you can control number and minimum...

Gartner recently sat down with Ray Ozzie, chief software architect at Microsoft, to discuss his vision for cloud computing, and the impact on enterprise computing and the IT industry. Summary follows – click here for full transcript. Cloud-based computing...

The UN's Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen (COP15) last month, didn’t manage to achieve the outcome that the world needs but at least at the debate is about what we should be doing rather than whether we need do anything. And of course technology...

Last week I saw Ted Shann, Head of Sustainability Practice for BT Global Services, present BT’s approach to Climate Change . In a nutshell BT aim to: Reduce their own footprint Influence their suppliers Help their customers Engage their employees …  ...

Come see us at the Green IT Expo 2009 , Barbican Exhibition Centre, London on 10th/11th Nov. Ask us about Microsoft approach to Environmental Sustainability and how we can help Reduce, Manage and Rethink! Check out Microsoft UK Environment Website  ...

Microsoft UK launches Environmental Sustainability website http://www.microsoft.com/uk/environment/default.aspx   Have a look around the site and discover our strategies: To reduce our own carbon footprint by improving the sustainability of our business...

  LifeCam Cinema was announced recently. This is the first consumer webcam to support 720p video at 30fps. That’s the full 1,280x720, unlike some other attempts at so called HD video . The device is planned to work Office Communication Server 2007...

Optimisation, dematerialisation, virtualisation.its ALL about making your investments work harder or smarter. Whether it be Data Centre, or supply chain, real estate, land, or logistics or other infrastructure that is not fully utilised. Lets start with...

Yesterday was the 40th anniversary of the Apollo missions to the moon and to celebrate this amazing achievement Shoothill have created a Deep Zoom experience - " Deep Moon - 10GB of Apollo imagery". [You will need Microsoft Silverlight installed on your...

Here is a trend that will increase. Virtual conferences. Not only can you attend live over the internet and interact with the presenters but the presentations are available post event to catch up what you missed. Already companies are making greater use...

HP are taking on IBM in offering solutions for Datacenter Efficiency at scale….   HP unveiled the HP Extreme Scale-Out (ExSO) portfolio this week, which is a set of new solutions targeting large-scale datacenter customers. The mega-datacenter market...

I certainly see Cloud Computing as a key enabler to reducing total carbon emissions as companies move from on premise to cloud based computing ostensibly to reduce cost. This of course relies on the provider being more efficient overall and preferably...

Business leaders today issued "The Copenhagen Call" at the close of the World Business Summit on Climate Change. Here is the statement delivered to Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen and UNFCCC chief Yvo de Boer to take forward into...

Reposted from DataCenter Dynamics article Microsoft has signed up as a participant and an endorser of the EU code of conduct for data center efficiency. To date the company is one of the largest data center operators to sign as a participant in the Code...

  Recently, in an open letter from the Aldersgate Group to Joan Ruddock, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, a coalition of 55 leading UK business and third sector organisations claim that the current regulatory...

Here in Microsoft UK our Environmental Management team have been spending the past year getting a handle on our environmental footprint and putting in place a program to reduce our environmental impact. Here are some of the achievements so far …………with...

For you ITPro’s who want to here from Microsoft on GreenIT we have a series of webcasts to access via TechNet. The full session listing is provided below:   Title Date Time (PST) URL Transforming the Data Center with Energy Efficiency (Level 200...

To celebrate Earth Day 2009 the TechNet team has done a special Green issue of TechNet Magazine.  This edition is   only available online which makes sense giving it’s all about Green IT.  The whole issue is dedicated to green IT and sustainable...

  At this year's Consumer Electronics Show, Microsoft unveiled a new beta product called Tag. It's a simple technology on the surface, but it holds enormous potential for creative use at retail. Tag is an extension of the company's existing High...