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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blogs.technet.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Server and Tools Business News Bytes blog : Green IT</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/stbnewsbytes/archive/tags/Green+IT/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: Green IT</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)</generator><item><title>Microsoft Presents "Green IT and Virtualization” </title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/stbnewsbytes/archive/2009/02/05/microsoft-presents-green-it-and-virtualization.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:39:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3197609</guid><dc:creator>mdingle</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.technet.com/stbnewsbytes/comments/3197609.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.technet.com/stbnewsbytes/commentrss.aspx?PostID=3197609</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin"&gt;Microsoft completed its second monthly “Live and Virtualized” LiveMeeting series Wednesday, January 28&lt;SUP&gt;th&lt;/SUP&gt;, 8:00am PST.&amp;nbsp; The LiveMeeting topic was “Green IT and Virtualization” presented by &lt;B&gt;Francois Ajenstat&lt;/B&gt;, Director, Environmental Sustainability at Microsoft, &lt;B&gt;Ward Ralston&lt;/B&gt;, Group Product Manager Windows Server at Microsoft and Microsoft customer, &lt;B&gt;Chris Steffen&lt;/B&gt;, Principal Technical Architect at Kroll Factual Data. If you were unable to attend this month’s Live &amp;amp; Virtualized LiveMeeting, you can access the playback &lt;SPAN style="COLOR: #1f497d"&gt;&lt;A href="https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/lmevents/view?id=MSFT13967&amp;amp;pw=ATT1367L1147&amp;amp;cn"&gt;&lt;FONT color=#0000ff&gt;here&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;U&gt;&lt;SPAN style="COLOR: purple"&gt;. &lt;?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/U&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin"&gt;The session covered the importance of Green IT and environmental sustainability efforts for corporations and how Microsoft virtualization technologies, such as Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V, are helping deliver Green and cost savings benefits for customers. &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN lang=EN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin"&gt;Using Hyper-V virtualization, Kroll Factual Data has been able to reduce their power consumption to about 700,000 kWh per year, for a savings of nearly 90%.&amp;nbsp; To read more about the KFD Microsoft customer experience, you can read &lt;A href="http://blogs.technet.com/virtualization/archive/2009/02/04/guest-post-the-green-benefits-we-ve-experienced-with-a-virtualized-data-center.aspx"&gt;&lt;FONT color=#0000ff&gt;Chris Steffen’s guest blog&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/A&gt; on the Virtualization Team Blog.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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