Fortune - Silicon Valley powerhouse Cisco became the latest tech company to jump on the green bandwagon this week, with the announcement Tuesday of its new EnergyWise technology. Simply put, EnergyWise is a free update to IOS, the operating system for the company's ubiquitous Catalyst switches, that enables customers to monitor and regulate energy consumption of any device connected to the network.
According to the company, 300 engineers across various departments have been working on development - funded by Cisco's (CSCO, Fortune 500) $5 billion annual R&D budget - over the last three and a half years.
"Information technology is responsible for 2% of greenhouse gases. Our vision is to use the network to affect the other 98%," says Laura Ipsen, senior vice president of public policy and government affairs. "A lot of us in the IT world think about always-on. But we want to go from always-on to always-available."
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