TechNet Magazine Goes Green
The October edition of TechNet Magazine goes Green. Green is a hot topic and I think that we as an IT community don't do enough to make sure we don't waste energy. How many of you shutdowns his PC or has a server running constantly at home? I have to admit I don't do it every time. I am wasting money, resources and energy. We should all be more concerned about this and that is exactly the reason why I am trying to organize a Green IT Panel discussion at IT Forum 2007 in Barcelona. I want to have some of the major vendors in the Market like Intel, AMD, Dell, .... and beside the hardware manufacturers I want to have one of our Data Center Managers, MSIT and other IT Managers from major companies.
What I would like to know from them is how the hardware will change in the future to reduce the energy consumption even more. Secondly I want to know what we Microsoft are going to do with our software, management tools to support the Green IT initiatives. What can we do as an IT Pro to reduce the needed energy, where do we have to look when we buy hardware?
What are you thinking about Green IT, is it something we should care about or not? Send me your comments I want to open up the discussion here, I am really interested to know what you think about or what you are doing for it.
If I find all the speakers this will be a session not to miss at IT Forum this year, keep my finger crossed.
Read the preview article about Green IT:
OCTOBER 2007
Green is hot. Green computing is the next frontier, and building a green, ecologically friendly data center has surprising rewards. Learn about the benefits, the costs, the savings, and how to plan, right now.
The Active Directory replication model defines the ways in which updates are communicated to all domain controllers within an environment, as well as how to handle any conflicts that arise as a result of the ability to make changes from practically anywhere.
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