Tag: sustainability
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Sustainable SAP
I attended SAP’s Sapphire Now conference in Orlando earlier this week along with around 12,000 others. It was a very interesting few days of talks, meetings, and showcases. SAP’s commitment to Sustainability was evident throughout the event. The two keynote speakers invited by SAP were Al Gore and Richard Branson, for example – both of…
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SAP’s latest Sustainability Report is Awesome!
SAP released its 2009 Sustainability Report during the week and if last years Sustainability Report was good, this one is outta the park! SAP released their first Sustainability Report in November 08 reporting on the 2007 year. It was a good initial effort (prepared in accordance with the GRI guidelines and achieving a “C” level…
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Just how green is cloud computing?
Cloud computing may not be as Green as you think. I mentioned previously that I gave a keynote presentation at the Green IT Summit in Dublin last week. In the question and answers session after the talk, Sean Baker asked about cloud computing and whether I thought companies using cloud computing weren’t simply outsourcing their…
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My “Green IT – driving efficiency, sustainability and enabling efficient working practices” presentation
Green IT – driving efficiency, sustainability and enabling efficient working practices Conference organising company iQuest contacted me last year to ask me to deliver a keynote presentation at their Green IT Summit. The event took place in Dublin yesterday and my keynote talk entitled “Green IT – driving efficiency, sustainability and enabling efficient working practices”…
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Can corporate social responsibility affect your company’s bottom line?
Your company’s share price can be negatively affected if you fail to behave responsibly in your business practices. I have written here a couple of times about environmental risks companies could potentially face. This first time I wrote about this it was in reference to FaceBook’s decision to source the power for their new data…
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Friday Morning Green Numbers round-up 03/05/2010
HP Named No. 1 on Corporate Responsibility Magazine’s 100 Best Corporate Citizens List HP today was ranked No. 1 on Corporate Responsibility Magazine’s (formerly known as CRO Magazine) 11th annual 100 Best Corporate Citizens List. Climbing from fifth place in last year’s rankings, HP gained the No. 1 spot, as a result of its scores…
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Smart Grid Heavy Hitter series – Silver Springs Networks’ Raj Vaswani
This is the third of my Smart Grid Heavy Hitters’ interviews, and in it I talked to the CTO of Silver Springs Networks, Raj Vaswani. It was a great interview – in it we talked about: Raj’s definition and the benefits of a Smart Grid The fact that, to-date Smart Grids are quite notional How…