Virtualization

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Virtualization

Virtualization and Green IT, the Pathway to Success: A Case Study

October 21, 2011 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2011 Annual Conference

Bryant University has an aggressive virtualization strategy and has deployed of over 70 applications on virtual machines (VMware). This session will discuss how Bryant reduced its carbon footprint …

The Lean and Green by Design

October 19, 2011 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2011 Annual Conference

Delivering quality services at 99.999% availability at the enterprise level while focusing on cost reduction, innovation, and sustainability is proving challenging for many higher education institu…

7 Things You Should Know About Green IT

March 23, 2010

A broad consciousness has developed about environmental sustainability, and IT is not only is responsible for an appreciable portion of emissions but is also in a position to facilitate reduction…

Green IT Lightning Round

January 14, 2010 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference 2010

Join this set of brief presentations for quick summaries of sustainable/green IT projects. Although IT might not be the largest component in your institution's greenhouse gas emissions, it pro…

Low-Carbon Computing

October 30, 2009

© 2009 National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 44, no. 6 (November/December 2009): 34-51 "Low-Carbon Computing" ori…

7 Things You Should Know About Virtualization

October 5, 2009

Virtualization is an approach by which several applications—sometimes running on different operating systems—run on the same piece of hardware, creating multiple “virtual” servers from a …

Green IT Best Practices at the University of Michigan

October 29, 2009

Key Takeaways Involving stakeholders on campus yields policies and green IT initiatives more likely to be embraced by the campus community. Partnering takes advantage of existing effort…

Green IT

November 5, 2009

This unique, online-only session will discuss emerging issues and strategies for green IT. This unique, online-only session will discuss emerging issue…

Green IT Survey

May 26, 2009

This May 2009 survey is a critical component of the EDUCAUSE Center on Applied Research (ECAR) study of how higher education information technology (IT) organizations are participating in institu…

Where Does Your Institution Stand?

March 26, 2009

test By Wendell Brase and Mark Askren Media coverage of sustainability and “green” issues is hard to ignore these days. But less clear is a specific underst…