Recently, many major companies have been making green initiatives. To name a few of these Coca Cola, Walmart, and GE are all developing green initiatives. In the blog, we have come up with a few ideas that probably won’t make your company green certified, but will lower your costs while giving Mother Nature a little break.

1. Unplug all your chargers when your not using them – We know, it is a pain to go around your office and unplug your iPod, Cell Phone, iPad, Lap Top, Electric Shaver, and all those other things your have  plugged-in in your office, but it could make a difference in your energy bill. Every charging device you have in your outlet uses energy regardless of if it is charging a device or not. If everyone in your office building has 5 chargers plugged-in, and you have 100 employees you have 500 chargers wasting energy and increasing your electric bill.

2. Communicate with your employees about being green- one segment about green solutions could really make a difference. One thing businesses do not do as much as they should is talk about orders they give to employees with the employees. Instead of using an email to tell employees to turn off light in their office, tell them directly and explain how it benefits the company and the environment. Employees are more likely to do the obvious green activities if their boss is telling them to do it directly.

3. Buy recycled printer cartridges- Refilling your old cartridges is much cheaper than buying new ones. This is because a large portion of the price you pay is for the canister. This reduces waste because old canisters will go in the trash which will go in a land fill somewhere in the world. Why pay extra for something you already have?

Good question, why pay extra for something you already have? Limitless Technology  CRS makes sure that you pay the minimal amount for the telecom services you already have. We can even eliminate the unnecessary telecom services you have but do not need!

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Todd, bandwidth needs, capability and scalability are all fine and dandy until we run into a situation where the system shuts down, whether due to a natural disaster or a deliberate attack on the Internet.

And this is not a matter of “if” but “when”.

To gloss over this fact, is shortsighted… and the IT based industry is abound with those who are taking the short term, save a buck approach.

Posted by David Kleber

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David,

I understand your concern…but those things happen “shut downs, equipment failure, inability to afford the appropriate redundancy, attacks,viruses and more with IT inhouse also.

I hope you didn’t misconstrue my intent on the inevitable, and truly seen my point on the expected. Nor am I saying the cloud is there now with a “plug and play, no worries and walk away deliverable”…that you an afford.

But it will be.

So then you must know that if you can afford it, it is there.

Now it comes down to why would you put it in the cloud if you can do it cheaper yourself?

Which is one very big reason why the cloud is so attractive….COST. People, time, developed expertise, network redundancy, multiple delivery mechanisms and state of the art facilities and equipment CAN’T be afforded by most companies. And is not looked at close enough in the business planning and development phases of a business. People and companies forget all the “soft” and hard costs associated with being “state of the art”

Again…people are looking for perfect answers in a world that is not perfect. If its technology…it is not a matter of if it will break it when? And then…who is there when it does.

The cloud is coming. Know it, understand it, and use it where and when it makes the best sense for you.