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Overview

Green IT - it matters

Build your "green" IT skills

People and ideas

Green mainframe

Key IBM software greenery

Smart SOA™ Approaches for Carbon Management: Maximize the return on your SOA investment and approach carbon management from the entry point perspective
IBM InfoSphere Information Server Blade: Use less power and less cooling for energy-efficient, grid-based information integration
DB2 9 Storage Optimization: Reduce storage and energy costs with deep compression
Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5 for green collaboration: Use a collaboration platform for significant server performance improvements and an improved workspace and collaborative experience
Rational Team Concert: Enable in-context collaboration for distributed development teams
Tivoli Monitoring for Green Energy: Watch the power consumption and thermal signatures of data center resources
Tivoli Maximo Enterprise Asset Management: Monitor the thermal dynamics of the data center and identify problem areas
WebSphere Virtual Enterprise Best Practices: Common topologies for setting up a Virtual Enterprise environment: advantages, disadvantages, and guidance on how to implement the topology.
IBM Records Manager, IBM FileNet Business, Process Manager, IBM Image Manager: Eliminate the costs and risks of managing paper records
Reduce energy requirements with IBM Optim: Effective use of different types of storage: Understanding IBM Optim -- Improve application quality, speed time to market, and reduce risks

Demos

Create an electronic form solution with DB2 pureXML and Lotus Forms: This demo shows how to create an XML-based electronic form solution in three steps using Lotus® Forms to capture and send the data, and DB2® pureXML®

Podcasts and Videos

Is Green IT still smart?: Podcast with Rich Lechner, IBM VP and Amy Wohl. President, Wohl Associates
Rational Finds the Value in Green: This video captures the importance of green IT at the CFO, developer, and mobile employee level. Rational enables customers to leverage their investme
Ziff Davis/IBM podcast on Green IT: IBM software for a greener world (27 minutes, MP3). Podcast with Ziff David and IBM SME, Chris O'Connor.
Opportunities around clean tech: Drew Clark, director of strategy for IBM's Venture Capital Group, talks about clean tech and why it is one of the hot areas of interest for investing.

Trial downloads

Download free trial of IBM Optim Development Studio and Optim pureQuery Runtime V2.2: Improve development productivity up to 50% for developing & testing SQL & XQuery queries, stored procedures, Web services, & Java data access layers.
Download free trial of IBM Optim Database Administrator V2.2 (previously Data Studio Administrator): Improves database administrators' (DBAs') productivity & reduces application outages by automating& simplifying complex DB2 structural changes.
Download free trial of IBM InfoSphere Data Architect V7.5.2: Collaborative data design solution to discover, model, relate, and standardize diverse and distributed data asset.
Download free trial of DB2 Express-C 9.7: Fully licensed product available at no-charge for the community for application development and deployment
Download free trial of DB2 9.7 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows: Takes cost savings, ease of use, & security of DB2 9.5 to the next level

Catalog of products

Green skies ahead: Creating an energy-efficient world with IBM software

Through IBM software, you can build a comprehensive strategy to cut energy consumption and costs via a greener approach to IT — by optimizing people, workloads and the infrastructure. If your organization is charged with making some changes in energy usage — or you just want to explore how to go about it, read on to learn about the products and services that can help IT be a rainmaker — for greener operations and lower costs.