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Sustainability and Green Consulting and Auditing
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Technology Business Research (TBR)
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What happens when servers are designed to be efficient from the inside out?
Energy-efficient servers, though now well established and embraced by customers, demand an inside-out design approach, beginning with optimizing the efficiency of the server hardware itself followed by optimizing the infrastructure – such as software tools – around the machines.
TBR believes server energy efficiency ...
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Competing Priorities, Looming Threats The $700 billion global Aerospace & Defense industry came through the recent global recession better than many sectors but still facing flat growth, downward pressure on margins and profits, and intensified competition for increasingly scarce sources of revenues. In addition to these economic pressures, A&D companies face the dual pressures of having to ...
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In a previous report, TBR discussed the Obama administration’s sustainability team and predicted that the administration would not make sustainability a major theme in terms of regulation or incentives. We based that opinion on the observation that the team members mandated to pull a strategy together were relatively inexperienced and represented conflicting interests. In addition, we felt that ...
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In 2002, 90% of the U.S. companies polled by PWC were committing to sustainability in an attempt to enhance or protect their reputations; in 2008 and 2009, most are now focusing on the cost-reduction opportunities of sustainable practices.
In 2002, PricewaterhouseCoopers surveyed senior executives and managers of 140 U.S.-based companies regarding sustainability practices and plans. As one of ...
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Sun Microsystems and Oracle have highly compatible sustainability strategies – a somewhat surprising revelation, considering Sun is primarily a hardware company and Oracle is (or rather has been) exclusively a software company.
The two firms are most compatible in their views surrounding the reduction of carbon footprint, the use of alternative energy, making datacenters more energy efficient ...
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