Decrease Your Carbon Footprint: Work at Home
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Thursday, 12 June 08 - 05:23 PM (GMT -05:00) By David Rowswell in General |
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- Employees saved more than $1,700 per year in gasoline and wear and tear on their vehicles by working at home an average of 2.5 days a week.
- Office equipment energy consumption at the office was 130 watts per hour compared to 64 watts per hour at employee homes.
- Commuting represented more than 98 percent of each employee's carbon footprint for work, compared to less than 1.7 percent of total carbon emissions needed to power office equipment.
- By eliminating commuting just 2.5 days per week, each employee reduced the amount of energy used for work by the equivalent of 5,400 kilowatt hours per year.
- Working from home 2.5 days per week saved employees an average of 2.5 weeks of commuting time (8 hours per day, five days per week) per year.
May's Meeting
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Tuesday, 20 May 08 - 04:21 PM (GMT -05:00) By David Rowswell in General |
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Dear ASU Members:
The IBM announcements in April were arguably some of the most disruptive to the mid-range community since the introduction of the System/38.
You might be thinking to yourself now, "Well now, those are some pretty bold words. What exactly does he mean by that?"
Think about what IBM announced, beyond the introduction of i5/OS V6R1 (or IBM i 6.1 as it's now called), beyond the re-introduction of WDSCi as RDi / RDi-SOA. What basically happened with the merging of the System i and System p into the POWER Systems was nothing less than the death of the hardware platform that we knew (originally, anyway) as the AS/400.
That's right - there's no more AS/400, no more iSeries, no more System i. So, does that mean that we're all out of a job? Are OS/400 / i5/OS gone for good? Well, no, not quite on either count.
As you already know (if you've been following the IBM mid-range platforms for any length of time), the hardware convergence has been coming for quite a while, and will no doubt be a good thing. AS/400 hardware has always been more expensive than its UNIX / AIX System p brethren, even as more and more components were shared between them. The former System i hardware was capable of running Linux in a separate partition, and AIX applications directly in the PASE (Portable Application Solutions Environment) - without emulation.
What made the IBM Midrange systems special was not hardware - it was software, in particular the operating system and integrated services that it provided. Whether it was called CPF, OS/400 or i5/OS, it was this software that made the hardware what it was - the best business computing platform on the planet.
But that was the past - what about the present and the future? We're honored this month to welcome IBM's Gerri Passe to discuss the technical aspects of the new POWER systems, IBM i 6.1, and IBM's continued plans for the operating system's development.
Gerri is a Senior Information Technology Specialist with IBM in Rochester, MN. Her primary focus has been in the areas of IBM i 6.1 and i5/OS upgrade planning since mid 2006. During her previous seven years at IBM, she provided Lotus Domino for i5/OS technical sales support to customers and Business Partners in the Americas. In addition, Gerri was an IBM AS/400 Systems Engineer in southern Minnesota for seven years. During her first nine years with IBM, she was a mainframe (VM/VSE/MVS) Systems Engineer. Gerri has co-authored a number of IBM ITSO Redbooks and has been a speaker at IBM and customer conferences including COMMON and System i Technical conferences.
Speaking of the future, the May meeting is also when we nominate and elect new officers for the coming year. If you're going to attend an ASU meeting, this is the one to attend. Not only do we have an outstanding speaker discussing an important topic, but you'll also have the opportunity to influence the direction of ASU in the coming year.
The meeting will be held at the Affiliated Resource Group's corporate offices, starting at 5:30 PM. We'll have a light dinner, officer nominations and elections, and then get right into Gerri's presentation.
See you then!
Jon Juracich
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