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• Reduce your PC's power consumption through smart activity monitors: Learn how to reduce your power consumption in your Linux® computers by monitoring application-usage patterns and user activity.
• Podcast on reducing your PC's power consumption: Listen to Nathan Harrington, IBM programmer & developerWorks contributor on: reducing your PC's power consumption through smart activity monitoring.
• Shut down idle computers on your network automatically: Save electricity, bandwidth, and wear by detecting inactive systems on your network and shutting them down automatically.
• Worry-free Linux power-downs with Anacron: Manage timed jobs on laptops and desktop workstations

• Develop a blueprint for improving your energy efficiency and reducing your carbon footprint.: An Enterprise architecture initiative can yielde increased efficiency and productivity, leading to a smaller carbon footprint. Learn more
• Taking an integrated approach to energy efficiency with IBM Tivoli software.: Paper describes the critical importance of managing energy & an overview of the problems and issues associated with “greening” today’s enterprises
• Redbook: Smart SOA Apporaches for Green Solutions: Case Study: Smart SOA Approaches for Green Solutions: Business Process Management and Resource Optimization
• Redguide: Building Green IT Solutions Using IBM Smart SOA:: Building Green IT Solutions Using IBM Smart SOA: Business Process Management and Resource Optimization
• Redbooks: Green: List of Redbooks and Redguides with a "green" emphasis

• Greet IT for Dummies
• The Greening of IT: How Companies Can Make a Difference for the Environment

• The lean, green computing machine: Learn how Project Big Green is taking energy efficiency beyond the data center.
• The mainframe energy efficiency value proposition, Part 1
• The mainframe energy efficiency value proposition, Part 2
• More green content

• Linux : lean, clean and green: Green IT is one of the hottest of today's technology trends, and the GNU/Linux® community has risen to the challenge. Along with several corporate par
• How to measure employee carbon footprints: Part 2: Putting the concept to the test: examines the pilot results from Part one in the series
• Access Optim archive file data using Cognos: Configure connectivity between Cognos and Optim Open Data Manager. Make archived data accessible from its compressed file format for independent rep
• SolarNetOne: Solar-powered networking for anyone: SolarNetOne : turnkey Internet hotspot -power, computers, & satellite uplink—you can install virtually anywhere, for less than the cost of a small car

• Download a free trial of Rational Software Architect for WebSphere: Download IBM® Rational Software Architect for WebSphere V7.5, an advanced and comprehensive application design, modeling and development tool.
• Download a free trial of IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment: Download IBM® Tivoli® Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment: provides easy-to-use console for remote deployment & management of operating systems
• Download a free trial of IBM® Lotus® Sametime® Standard V8.0,: Lotus Sametime enables organizational instant messaging anytime/ anyplace plus Web conferencing, VoIP, point-to-point video, mobile clients and more
• Download a free trial version of IBM Informix® Dynamic Server Enterprise Edition: IBM Informix® Dynamic Server with extremely fast OnLine Transaction Processing (OLTP) means fewer servers, less power, and reduced space requirements
• Download a free trial: Tivoli Directory Integrator V7.0: Tivoli Directory Integrator helps you build an authoritative data infrastructure, enabling consistent data across multiple identity /generic resources
• Download a free trial version of IBM Rational Team Concert Enterprise Edition V2: Built on Jazz Technology Platform (a scalable, extensible team collaboration platform for seamlessly integrating tasks across the software)
• Download a free trial version of IBM® Rational® Team Concert Standard Edition V2: IBM® Rational® Team Concert Standard Edition V2, which provides a collaborative software delivery environment for corporate teams.
• Download a free trial version of IBM® Rational® Team Concert Express Edition V2: Integrae source control, work item, & build capabilities to improve software quality & accelerate software delivery

• SOA Sandbox for Green:: Find specially designed exercises that help you assess how to leverage SOA technology to make enterprises more efficient and eco-friendly.
• Go Green - with a 60 Day Free Trial Of Active Energy Manager (AEM):: AEM V3.1.1, an extension of IBM Director, helps monitor and manage the power and thermal usage of system in IT environments.
• Try Virtual Image Manager V1.1 for 90 days at no charge: IBM Systems Director Virtual Image Manager provides single, unified view of system templates & virtual server images to help manage & deploy systems
• Try Virtual Availability Manager V1.1 for 90 days at no charge: IBM Systems Director Virtual Availability Manager provides high availability and dynamic and static relocation for Xen virtual servers.
• IBM Enterprise Modernization Software: Quickly experience and evaluate our latest solutions for modernizing and deploying core System z applications in a "tinker, test, and try" environment

• How to measure employee carbon footprint: Part One: This article describes an IBM® project to track employees' carbon emissions, using an SOA solution with WebSphere® Business Monitor, WebSphere ESB, We
• Support a greener mobile workforce using the Eclipse Rich Client Platform: Extend the Eclipse platform to support offline computer needs of field personnel. Discover the value of common open source platform to remote teams
• Migrate to a virtual Linux environment with Clonezilla: Learn how to use the open source Clonezilla Live cloning software to convert your physical server to a virtual one.
• Green computing on AIX and POWER: Article discusses how server consolidation around IBM® AIX and POWER servers work in tandem with green computing
• A successful model for large-scale virtual training: Leveraging its Communities of Practice expertise, IBM Rational developed a successful online training model incorporating hands-on collaboration.
• Building a Geospatial Information System: Businesses, schools, & governments are increasingly using geospatial information systems (GIS) to solve real-world problems.
• Archive and maintain DB2 message logs and diagnostic data with db2back: Introducing a handy script to help you archive & maintain message logs and diagnostic files on your IBM DB2 for Linux or AIX servers.
• Enhance business insight and scalability of XML data with new DB2 V9.7 pureXML features: Explore new DB2 9.7 features to integrate XML data more effectively into business intelligence environments and to cope with growing XML data volumes.
• Green.org Sustainability Challenge: Strengthen local community with organically driven Drupal site: Sustainability Challenge is an invitation to develop a sustainable Web site for your local community using Drupal
• Informix Dynamic Server data compression and storage optimization: Save storage resources, reduce I/O, and optimize performance with new IDS features