Green Computing

Running Head: Organization and Technology of Information Management               1                    

Dora Grant
November 6, 2011
Organization and Technology of Information Management
Professor Fisher

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ABSTRACT
Green computing is a way to reduce the impact on the environment and reduce resources consumption that may be detrimental to the environment by using more efficient hardware and better software.

“Still, IT execs would be wise to keep an eye on more than the economics of energy-efficient computing. Energy consumption has gotten so huge--U.S. data centers consume as much power in a year as is generated by five power plants--that policy makers are taking notice and considering more regulation. Some of the major corporations leading the green computing initiative are the same major players in other computing venues: IBM, HP, and Dell.
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Other major corporations who are going green as a way to save money on power consumption include most Wall Street firms (since they use a tremendous amount of power in their data centers), banks like Wells Fargo, and Amazon.com. “IT management isn't the first place you would start looking for environmental activists.
Part 2 Salesforce.com
In recent years, thousands of companies have fully embraced the on-demand future, fueled by the revelation that CRM success does not require buying or maintaining expensive software or hardware.

Building on this global wave of on-demand innovation and development, salesforce.com AppExchange marketplace (www.appexchange.com) delivers a vast network of applications and services right to your business, all via the Internet.

The AppExchange online marketplace of more than 700 applications developed by salesforce. com’s community of partners, developers, and customers offers everything from finance and HR applications to industry-specific and CRM-related solutions to productivity tools and components. Now... [continues]

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