Softchoice Named ‘Software Asset Management Partner of the Year’ at Microsoft IMPACT Awards

November 29th, 2010 – Softchoice is delighted to announce it has been named Microsoft’s ‘Software Asset Management Partner of the Year’.

“Technology partners are at the core of Microsoft’s business and we’ve always relied upon their commitment to infinite possibilities to provide the foundation for delivering truly innovative solutions to the marketplace.” said Corinne Sharp, National Director, Canadian Partner Network, Microsoft Canada Inc. “We are pleased to celebrate the outstanding solutions of industry leaders like Softchoice.” [Read more...]

CSR Energy Audit & Recommendations

Softchoice had a great CSR intern work with us over the last year. As part of her program at Seneca College in Toronto she took a current snaphot of our current energy use, and gave us some great recommendations for 2011. Here is a summary of her report: [Read more...]

Softchoice Joins Green Challenge

It is still in the very early stages but I wanted to get a post out there to let you all know that Softchoice will be participating in Chicago’s Green Office Challenge.  We will need to allow the city access to some of our electricity and water bills to participate but I think we really have a great chance at winning if everyone in the office is up to the challenge.

I will post plenty more on this as we begin and go through the contest so you are aware of how these challeneges work but it sounds like it will be a lot of fun.  Our first meeting is next Tuesday so I will know a lot more after that.  For more information or to sign your own company up go here http://www.chicagogreenofficechallenge.org/

Trivia night raises $4,391 for Softchoice Cares

Thanks to everyone who participate in Trivia Night last Thursday!

We raised $4,391 for Softchoice Cares that night between the registration fees (which 100% went to the charity), Microsoft Raffle and the sponsors.

Congrats to Comic Sans for taking home the Grand Prize, and thanks to all the teams that continue to come out year after year for this event.

Thanks to our main sponsors: Trend Micro, IBM, Lexmark and Microsoft Hardware and to all the local Liberty Village Businesses that donated prizes: Power Yoga Canada, Mildred’s Temple Kitchen, York Heritage Properties, Liberty Noodle, Chuck Burgers, Goodlife Fitness, GreenKite

Facebook listens to their friends

Facebook has taken recent criticism seriously about their energy consumption. They have joined their IT cohorts to do the right thing  and have cleared the air in their data center by using fans to create better airflow management as well as containing this cold air to keep it escaping in the floors. This makes their systems more efficient and dramatically cuts the amount of energy they are using.

What we did here isn’t rocket science,” said Jay Park, Facebook’s director of data center engineering. “We applied very basic thermal theory.” He was on a panel discussing…read more.

Getting it there green

Following a monthly Softchoice Green Team meeting I’d like to share with you some of the projects I am working on.

Supply Chain Analysis from a sustainability perspective: This is a report I had done for one of our clients looking at where their suppliers are located, the frequency of deliveries, the CO2 generated by all deliveries, distance traveled, and total number of deliveries to their various locations, etc. What I’m trying to uncover is no different from that of other business cases. I’d like to know where waste exists and how to eliminate it. The only difference is that the factor of time is weighted against the amount of pollution caused. Having things JIT (Just in Time) may cause more pollution and that is an important thing to consider. [Read more...]