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it@cork events - GREEN IT Breakfast

Tom Raftery: Reducing your Costs and your Carbon Footprint - A Case Study

Data centre's are the bad boys of the IT carbon footprint world. They require vast quantities of electricity to run and typical data centre's operate at 30% energy efficiency. As one of the director's of Cork Internet eXchange (CIX), Tom Raftery will discuss the innovative strategies deployed in the build of CIX which significantly reduced the operating costs and led to it being a hyper energy-efficient data centre.

James Governor: The Sustainability Imperative: Towards Greener Software

The IT industry has so far focused on reducing environmental impact of data centers, but the story doesn’t begin and end there. Software architectures can also play a critical role in the strategic imperative of going green. Industry analyst James Governor, of Redmonk, will discuss why green initiatives are essential for the sustainable enterprise and how sharing data and using service enabled approaches can lead to better environmental outcomes. How can you increase the 'carbon intelligence' in your company and reduce your “bit miles”? What would a green software architecture strategy look like, or a green API? The discussion starts here.

Mike Hughes: Windows Vista Energy Conservation

The Windows Vista™ operating system features significant changes to power management infrastructure, functionality, and default settings. These changes impact how PCs running Microsoft Windows® consume energy. This paper outlines the potential energy savings available when deploying Windows Vista and the significant changes from Windows XP. These savings are presented in terms of both financial and environmental impact.