Spurred by business needs as well as environmental concerns, green IT projects blossomed in datacenters and on desktops throughout the world in 2007.
To encourage environmentally sound practices in a world where the serious repercussions of climate change are becoming all too clear, we at InfoWorld are proud to present our first annual Green 15 award recipients to those organizations that have made significant energy-saving, waste-reducing initiatives.
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This year's winners are, in alphabetical order:
• BT Group retrofits to reduce carbon footprint
• Bryant University's datacenter built to scale efficiently
• Digital Realty Trust mines energy savings from LEED Gold
• EMC gets greener with IT-facilities partnership
• Fujitsu taps hydrogen power to fuel energy savings
• Hewlett-Packard manages power efficiency from afar
• IBM tackles IT energy efficiency on a Big Blue scale
• GM2 Logistics marries SANs and sustainability
• The Green Grid's metrics sow the seeds for IT sustainability
• Juniper Networks sheds nearly 1.3B watts
• Miami-Dade County Public Schools pinches PC power consumption
• NetApp manages to keep its cool
• One Laptop Per Child's low-power laptop empowers and inspires
• Sun Microsystems plants pods for sustainability and savings
• Verizon Wireless rings in desktop power savings
