Energy and Sustainability Perspectives

Thinking about reporting to the CDP ? Just Do It!

Cynthia Curtis — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:50:00 GMT

I often have discussions with colleagues from other businesses about the fact that they would like to start reporting on their carbon emissions and energy usage, but it seems like a daunting challenge. My advice to them is always the same: Just Do It! CA Technologies has been reporting to the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) on our energy usage since 2006 (CDP reporting questionnaire...

Does Cloud Computing Really Make Things Greener?

Dhesikan Ananchaperumal — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:53:00 GMT

Today in The CA Cloud Storm Chasers Blog, George Watt, Vice President, for the Enterprise and Cloud solutions group at CA Technologies, discusses the company’s progression through three levels of green awareness and maturity in its early cloud years. The levels included are: 1. Collateral Greenage 2. Deliberately Green 3. A Measured Approach To find out more about each of these...

Employee Engagement: Green Teams Key to Early Momentum in Corporate Sustainability

Cynthia Curtis — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:42:00 GMT

When CA Technologies made sustainability a driving principle of our organization we immediately got to work on some good-old-fashioned governance initiatives. We performed a competitive analysis, gathered as much information and data as possible on our current status, set up a project management office to help drive key initiatives, and developed key metrics and lenses for examining...

CA eocSoftware Expands DCIM and IT Energy Management Capabilities

Terrence Clark — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:27:00 GMT

Today we announced new and enhanced offerings in our CA ecoSoftware solution that are designed to further extend the company’s support of Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) and IT energy management. The improved capabilities in CA ecoMeter 3.0 and our new CA ecoDesktop offering can help IT and facilities staff gain greater availability, agility and efficiency in their data center and IT...

Big Iron Results in Big Energy Savings. Why Mainframes are Sustainable.

Cynthia Curtis — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:40:00 GMT

When people think about Green IT, you don’t find a lot of people who immediately say, “Oh yeah, that’s all about mainframes.” Affectionately known as Big Iron, this tried-and-true technology that has been around for years is not always on top-of-mind when a discussion about energy efficiency in the data center comes up. But it should be for medium and large companies with significant...