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Business and IT professionals are sometimes surprised to learn that environmental sustainability and financial sustainability are not mutually exclusive. The fact is, there are a number of IT solutions available today that deliver significant savings through a combination of energy conservation, improved workflow, and streamlined deployment.

Unprecedented public awareness of environmental issues means there's a social dividend to be gained by companies that go green, including being able to attract great talent.

Green IT - The New Industry Shock Wave
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Energy Efficient Computing

Organizations can reduce the energy consumption of technology by taking advantage of built-in power management features, increasing server utilization through virtualization technology, and managing IT infrastructure for efficiency.

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Windows Vista: Power Down Grows Up - Information Sheet
The Windows Vista operating system features significant changes to power management infrastructure, functionality, and default settings. These changes can help companies save energy while simultaneously improving the productivity of their workers.
How Customers Are Cutting Costs and Building Value with Microsoft Virtualization - White Paper
Microsoft customers are using virtualization technology to simplify IT infrastructures and processes and to save money. This results in organizations gaining significant time, space, and power savings and also provides environmental benefits.
Power In, Dollars Out: How to Stem the Flow in the Data Center - White Paper
By considering the effect of server power usage on total cost of ownership, IT administrators can maximize their organization's power efficiency, reduce their energy footprint, and identify issues and inefficiency in deployed systems.
Windows Server 2008 Power Savings - White Paper
With Windows Server 2008, Microsoft introduced new, previously unavailable features and technologies to help reduce the power consumption of server and client operating systems, minimize environmental byproducts, and increase server efficiency.
Reducing PC Power Consumption and Costs with Windows Vista - White Paper
Power management features in Windows Vista make it notably more energy efficient than earlier versions of the Windows operating system. This can help businesses cut costs and achieve their sustainable IT goals.
Enforce Power Management Settings in Your Organization with Group Policy - Article
Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista are configured by default to be energy-efficient. Group Policy enables users to further optimize their systems for even greater energy efficiency.
Plan and Optimize Your Infrastructure to be Energy Efficient with System Center - Article
Microsoft System Center enables energy efficiency across the enterprise. By providing powerful features and tools to analyze and optimize architectures for energy efficiency, System Center enables administrators to bring all systems into compliance with energy efficiency standards.

Environmental Management

Every business, from small to large, wants to use energy and resources wisely. Microsoft can help businesses implement environmentally sustainable business policies and practices.

Next Generation Data Center Design

Server and rack density continues to rise and hyper-scale cloud infrastructure is on the verge of taking traditional technology to new limits. Microsoft therefore is continually looking for ways to drive efficiency into its internal data center designs.

Flexible Work

A healthy global business and a healthy planet go hand in hand. By allowing workers to meet, connect, and collaborate online, Microsoft Unified Communications helps reduce the costs and carbon impact of business travel and commuting and also enterprise telephony and office space.

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Visualization of Environmental Impact

Gain insight into global environmental trends and patterns through online maps and data. With Microsoft Virtual Earth, companies and government organizations can create an immersive online mapping and search experience.