People Power: Smart Grid is About More Than Just Smart Technology

*Posted by Rob Aldrich for Jenny Carless, contributor to News@Cisco* The smart grid is not just about smart technology – it’s also about how people use that technology to be smarter about their own behavior. Business and municipal leaders have …Read more.

Posted by Rob Aldrich on October 18, 2009 at 06:59PM

When is the Data Center Ready for Energy Management?

A good report was issued last week from The 451 Group, written by Andy Lawerence.  They issued another insightful report last year called Eco-Efficient IT and appear to be an analyst body spending some real cycles on digging past the …Read more.

Posted by Rob Aldrich on August 24, 2009 at 03:33PM

Energy Management in the Data Center - New Report

A good report was issued last week from The 451 Group, written by Andy Lawerence.  They issued another insightful report last year called Eco-Efficient IT and appear to be an analyst body spending some real cycles on digging past the …Read more.

Posted by Rob Aldrich on August 24, 2009 at 02:40PM

Green Counts: One Million Acts and Growing

How “green” are you? Chances are you’re already helping the environment with things you do every day. If you recycle at home, use a refillable coffee cup, or even telecommute one day a week, you’re doing your part to help …Read more.

Posted by Cristal Guderjahn on July 28, 2009 at 11:58AM

Zoning for Efficiency

I put together this teaser video showing our approach to modeling highly efficient, highly dense data center zones (aka pods, clusters).  Simply defined, a data center zone is a physical construct that is built to support any number of logical …Read more.

Posted by Rob Aldrich on April 24, 2009 at 10:25AM

EnergyWise Timelines & Green IT

A quick overview on some of the progress being made in San Jose on EnergyWise.  As you will hear we are taking a staged approach as there is a lot of ground to cover.  It’s too early for us to …Read more.

Posted by Rob Aldrich on April 04, 2009 at 11:26PM

Unanticipated Consequences of Virtualization

Virtualization is a new tool in the data center efficiency tool box. When used properly, the virtualization tool rewards the data center owner with reduced costs and efficient data center operations. If the tool is used improperly, unanticipated consequences can …Read more.

Posted by Paul Marcoux on March 31, 2009 at 03:07PM

Green Switches and Routers: What Crayons Can Teach Us About Networking Devices!

I look into my daughter’s crayon box and, besides fond memories, I find many shades and hues of the color Green. I look at networks and networking devices (That’s what I do!) and, once again, see many shades and hues …Read more.

Posted by Mark Leary on March 26, 2009 at 09:58AM

Green Switching – Spotting the Red Herring, Understanding the Real Impact

What makes a switch - or any other networking device for that matter - green? Wiktionary defines a red herring as “A clue that is misleading or that has been falsified, intended to divert attention.” In a recent Fact or …Read more.

Posted by Mark Leary on March 10, 2009 at 09:19PM

Cisco Energywise - Welcome to Green IT 1.0

Today was a very good day.  Guppies everywhere take note. With a little hype we announced the first energy management application in the IT industry using the network as the platform for monitoring and controlling infrastructure.  Cisco EnergyWise was announced …Read more.

Posted by Rob Aldrich on January 27, 2009 at 11:39AM

Top Ten Ways to be Greener through Better Networking

A very worthy recent posting by the Sierra Club offered a Top Ten list of ways to work greener. It can be found at http://sierraclub.typepad.com/greenlife/2007/03/10_ways_to_go_g.html. In reading this Sierra Club entry, I was reminded of a presentation I first did …Read more.

Posted by Mark Leary on January 23, 2009 at 02:15PM

Redefining the Role of the Network within Your Green IT Efforts

Written by Mark Leary, Manager - Network Systems Solutions, Cisco Systems Looking for a new experience in Second Life? Drop by our Cisco Second Life campus and visit our new half-dome “Sustainability Center” among the trees. We have exciting news …Read more.

Posted by Dannette Veale on January 22, 2009 at 10:29PM

Taking the Grey out of Green

You Can’t Manage What You Can’t Measure With all the hype in the media today it is difficult to weed through the noise to determine what individual steps we can take to shift our global community to more sustainable models.  …Read more.

Posted by Rob Aldrich on December 19, 2008 at 01:50PM