Monday, 20 September 2010
The Virtuous Triangle of Green IT
As more and more organisations implement successful sustainable computing initiatives, an increasingly holistic view of Green IT is emerging, comprising three different but entirely complimentary aspects:
• Firstly, IT operations need to significantly reduce their energy consumption – to minimise their own emissions and deliver essential efficiency gains for increasingly complex systems.
• Secondly, organisations need to explore the potential of IT and other new technologies to facilitate greener processes across the rest of the enterprise, For example, through mobile working, on-line resources, teleconferencing, electronic document management, and sustainable business processes, that consider the whole-life business process environmental impact.
• Finally, new IT applications and industry standards need to be developed to effectively measure, monitor and control environmental impacts across the enterprise – to provide reliable information for decision-making, scenario modelling and outcome validation.
This ’Virtuous Triangle’ of Green IT goes well beyond the simple cost-saving benefits that have always been apparent, evolving the role of IT to become a key enabler for more sustainable business as a whole.
Wednesday, 4 August 2010
PaperCut has environmental information and return on investment calculator
PaperCut has environmental information for end users so they can see the environmental impact of their printing in the number of trees carbon and energy used!
http://www.papercut.com/tour/at-a-glance/
Return on investment calculator http://www.papercut.com/tools/roi/
http://www.papercut.com/tour/at-a-glance/
Return on investment calculator http://www.papercut.com/tools/roi/
FREE WORKSHOP - Financing Energy Efficiency in University Data Centres and IT Activities
Wednesday 8th September 2010
Woburn House, London
Rising prices, carbon regulation, and sector targets are all making universities and colleges pay greater attention to their IT energy consumption and carbon emissions. Many low-medium payback measures are possible, but are often blocked by a lack of funding or incentives amongst users. Several solutions are now emerging. Energy costs can be devolved to entire departments or for easily metered activities, such as data centres. Alternatively, Estates can still pay energy bills, but share a proportion of any cost increases or falls from an agreed baseline. An energy can also be used to finance energy efficient equipment, covering either the whole cost (as with Salix schemes), or the price premium for high performance models.
Multifunctional devices (combined 4 functions in one machine printer, photocopier, scanner, and fax) have oblivious cost saving on machines, office space, networking and capital. However they (and the printroom) still consume power and even at auto power down, will be consuming energy that contributes to the whole university’s carbon footprint. Monitoring, control and assignment is needed to raise awareness and control carbon and cost in all HEIs.
This workshop will explore these topics and provide an opportunity for estates, finance, and IT staff to acquire new information, and share experiences and thinking. It is a joint initiative of two JISC efficiency fund financed projects - Responsible Energy Costs, led by Forum for the Future and the University of Gloucestershire, and Greening Scientific Computing, led by HEEPI’s SusteIT project.
http://www.goodcampus.org/events/info.php?siteID=1&refnum=48&startnum=0
Woburn House, London
Rising prices, carbon regulation, and sector targets are all making universities and colleges pay greater attention to their IT energy consumption and carbon emissions. Many low-medium payback measures are possible, but are often blocked by a lack of funding or incentives amongst users. Several solutions are now emerging. Energy costs can be devolved to entire departments or for easily metered activities, such as data centres. Alternatively, Estates can still pay energy bills, but share a proportion of any cost increases or falls from an agreed baseline. An energy can also be used to finance energy efficient equipment, covering either the whole cost (as with Salix schemes), or the price premium for high performance models.
Multifunctional devices (combined 4 functions in one machine printer, photocopier, scanner, and fax) have oblivious cost saving on machines, office space, networking and capital. However they (and the printroom) still consume power and even at auto power down, will be consuming energy that contributes to the whole university’s carbon footprint. Monitoring, control and assignment is needed to raise awareness and control carbon and cost in all HEIs.
This workshop will explore these topics and provide an opportunity for estates, finance, and IT staff to acquire new information, and share experiences and thinking. It is a joint initiative of two JISC efficiency fund financed projects - Responsible Energy Costs, led by Forum for the Future and the University of Gloucestershire, and Greening Scientific Computing, led by HEEPI’s SusteIT project.
http://www.goodcampus.org/events/info.php?siteID=1&refnum=48&startnum=0
New Features on SafeCom G3
What Challenges does SafeCom G3 Address:
• Dispersed print infrastructure
• Lack of central control and standards
• Cost control
• Security concerns
• Network bandwidth
• Managing remote sites
• User behavior
• Ease of Administration
• Ease of Installation
Enhancements:
•Enhanced encryption and AES support
•Hostname support
•Multiple domain support
•Easier installation
•Simplified Administration
New features:
•Unicode Support
•Application Print Notification
•Client Printing
SusteIT’s first Newsletter August 2010 for Events, News and Publications Relating to Greener ICT in Universities and Colleges
This newsletter has been developed by the JISC funded SusteIT initiative in order to a) publicise the activities and outputs of our own projects (on greening scientific computing and conferencing/new ways of working) and others within JISC's Greening ICT programme, and b) to provide brief updates on other developments within the field. To obtain a copy or subscribe go to http://www.goodcampus.org/susteit/index.php or contact l.m.hopkinson@bradford.ac.uk
Tuesday, 29 June 2010
CcPrint & CcMail for Microsoft Exchange
CcPrint is a print capture product which intercepts printed output on the way to a printer, renders it to an image and automatically stores it in the document management system. The product can be configured in numerous ways and is capable to extracting information from the printed material and using that information to index the document. It is also capable of processing forms and extracting information from them.
CcMail for Microsoft Exchange is an email capture product which intercepts emails as they are sent or received and indexes them in to the document management system according to a user-defined set of rules which control the inclusion or exclusion of each email and how it is stored. Requires IMAP4 enabled Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 or later.
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