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...
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...
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...
Date: 06/08/2011
IE9 Energy efficiency
The IE team recently published the results from a set of tests comparing the energy efficiency of...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.]...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Date: 12/15/2008
Server Efficiency Pot o' Gold
My colleague Matt Robben from the Windows Server performance team has produced a very comprehensive...
Date: 12/10/2008
Green IT TechNet Radio Interview
My former colleague, Adam Bogobowicz interviewed me recently on Green IT for TechNet Radio. ...
Date: 12/02/2008
Welcome to my blog!
Greetings! My name is Mark Aggar and I'm Microsoft's Environmental Technologist. I work...
Date: 11/12/2008