Technology Treading Lightly

Reducing Technology's Impact and Using Technology to Help the Environment

The Power of Incentives on Data Center Efficiency

I recently had the honor of having a blog post published on Corporate EcoForum's EcoInnovator blog...

Author: Mark Aggar Date: 03/30/2012

Windows Azure Autoscaling–available now!

In my white paper on IT energy efficiency, I wrote about the need for software developers to design...

Author: Mark Aggar Date: 12/08/2011

The IT Energy Efficiency Imperative

Once again, I've had a long hiatus from blogging. But I've got an excuse (this time!). I've been...

Author: Mark Aggar Date: 06/08/2011

IE9 Energy efficiency

The IE team recently published the results from a set of tests comparing the energy efficiency of...

Author: Mark Aggar Date: 03/29/2011

Big time savings with System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R3

The System Center  team blog featured a guest post by one of their MVPs yesterday on his...

Author: Mark Aggar Date: 09/21/2010

Study: New ENERGY STAR rated server consumes 54% less energy than older server

Microsoft has been working with the  US EPA and HP for the last 6 months or so on a study to...

Author: Mark Aggar Date: 09/20/2010

The Efficiency Imperative

On Monday, I was proud to speak on behalf of Microsoft at Intel Developer Forum 2010 on the critical...

Author: Mark Aggar Date: 09/15/2010

Windows 7 Power Use Study

In the category of “I wrote this a long time ago but forgot to post it”, Mindteck updated their 2009...

Author: Mark Aggar Date: 07/06/2010

Getting started with Windows Power Management

My team just published three new “getting started” white papers on microsoft.com today.  The...

Author: Mark Aggar Date: 06/18/2010

(Faulty?) Soft power switch caused resume from sleep failures

When the motherboard (or ‘mobo’) in my ‘media’ PC stopped working recently, I decided to turn lemons...

Author: Mark Aggar Date: 06/07/2010

Found: Secret Internet Explorer Insomnia feature!

In the category of “this problem has been around for years but no-one has noticed it”, I...

Author: Mark Aggar Date: 06/04/2010

Tales of PC Insomnia, Part 2

In my last post on this topic, I described a couple of scenarios in which your PC would not...

Author: Mark Aggar Date: 03/25/2010

Reducing IT footprint, 15 PCs at a time

What’s better than a classroom full of PCs? How about 1 PC per classroom? As backwards as this may...

Author: Mark Aggar Date: 12/04/2009

Better Power Management in the Enterprise

The System Center team asked me to come and chat about Power Management and what we’re doing...

Author: Mark Aggar Date: 10/27/2009

Tales of PC Insomnia

[note: An update on a couple of the issues mentioned here can be found in my follow-up post here.]...

Author: Mark Aggar Date: 10/21/2009

E-Readers – better for the environment than paper books?

A co-worker recently sent a message to our team asking whether an Amazon.com Kindle would be better...

Author: Mark Aggar Date: 09/29/2009

Disposing of Dead Batteries? Not so fast...

[It’s been a long while since my last post – it’s good to be back!] I replaced some alkaline...

Author: Mark Aggar Date: 09/29/2009

The Rise of AV Power and Green TV

  When I first moved to the United States from England some fourteen years ago, my TV and movie...

Author: Mark Aggar Date: 02/19/2009

Electric Cars = Environmental Paradox?

I was just reading a BBC news story about the new electric Mini E. This little beauty does 150 miles...

Author: Mark Aggar Date: 12/15/2008

Server Efficiency Pot o' Gold

My colleague Matt Robben from the Windows Server performance team has produced a very comprehensive...

Author: Mark Aggar Date: 12/10/2008

Green IT TechNet Radio Interview

My former colleague, Adam Bogobowicz interviewed me recently on Green IT for TechNet Radio. ...

Author: Mark Aggar Date: 12/02/2008

Welcome to my blog!

Greetings!  My name is Mark Aggar and I'm Microsoft's Environmental Technologist.  I work...

Author: Mark Aggar Date: 11/12/2008