No-Cost and Low-Cost Ways to Green Your Data Center Right Now - GreenerComputing

Being smarter about your use of storage can save electricity as well. Archiving less-important data onto drives with slower-speed spindles can save surprising amounts of energy. Marriott International did just that. Wendell Fox, senior vice president of Marriott's information resources shared-services group, estimates that a disk drive spinning at 7,200 rpm uses eight times more power than a disk that spins at 3,700 rpm, so the savings by doing this can be surprisingly large.

Clean tech movement goes global - SFGate

Known both as green tech and clean tech, the industry develops alternative fuels, better ways to use existing resources and other eco-friendly products. Most of the companies are young, and many call Silicon Valley home. California clean-tech companies won $1.79 billion in venture capital funding last year, 45 percent of the nationwide total of $3.95 billion.

And yet, green-tech companies also are springing up in Europe, China and elsewhere. As the world grows more concerned about high oil prices and global warming, governments are looking for ways to nurture this industry, hoping to make it their own.

Wal-Mart telegraphs its clean-tech needs - News.com

On Tuesday Wal-Mart and the Cleantech Group launched a Web-based tool that provides a sort of shopping list for Wal-Mart's sustainability strategy. The Cleantech Group is hosting its Cleantech Venture Forum in San Francisco, which starts on Tuesday.

Which "innovative ideas" Wal-Mart is seeking is instructive because it points to large corporate demand for clean-tech products.

Fujitsu packs 500GB into 2.5in drive - vnunet.com

The unit requires only 1.8W of power for read and write operations, ranking it among the most power-efficient in its class, the company claims.

The drive is part of Fujitsu's Green Policy Innovation Program to promote energy-efficient products and services as a way of helping customers lower their ecological footprint.

VMware Signs Deal to Embed Software in HP Servers - Enterprise IT Planet / Reuters

Plus today I put my own non-fax advice to good use with some interoffice paperwork! Unfortunately, someone else had to remind me. Goes to show, nobody's perfect.