growth the green
BT: EU must harmonise telecoms to save cash
News The paper, entitled Productivity, Growth and Jobs: How Telecoms Regulation Can Support European Businesses, suggests Europe's economy could benefit by up to €1,300bn over the next 20 years "with the development of seamless pan-European... [08 Apr 2008]
IT must be called to account over emissions
Comment In reality, under the pressure of almost continuous growth and restricted budgets, data centre management is often not all it should be. This is either a major oversight, or it may be a sign of a company merely paying lip service to the green agenda. [07 Apr 2008]
Green Data Center Storage Part II: Sustained Cost Effectiveness in Transitioning Times
White Paper In addition, it examines data growth problems and how they directly impact data center power and cooling considerations. This is the second part of a three-part paper on Data Center Power and cooling. [02 Apr 2008]
Understanding and Communicating the Financial Impact of XML & DITA
White Paper And further - how time and cost savings translate into revenue growth. Any new investment or process improvement starts with infectious optimism, but ROI-focused executive teams need more proof than potential to give the green light - once the deal... [28 Mar 2008]
Nationwide banks on SAP
News Speaking to silicon.com, Darin Brumby, Nationwide's divisional director for business systems transformation, said: "Our current systems which support our core retail products are up to, in some cases, 30 years old and certainly no longer support... [18 Mar 2008]
Inflation-busting tech budgets predicted
News The median growth rate for IT spending is predicted to be 4.9 per cent with the highest growth likely to be seen in the construction and health sectors. Green IT from A to ZClick on the links below to find out more. [10 Mar 2008]
Power shortages squeeze London's data centres
News Accenture claims the lack of growth in new data centres, compared to demand in London means the capital only has about five per cent capacity for data centre space, forcing lease prices up by 60 per cent and making it increasingly unattractive as... [27 Feb 2008]
Recession-proof your IT, CIOs warned
News The warning also advises organisations in countries outside the US with economic growth forecast to be less than two per cent in 2008 to act now. Businesses need to take action to cut tech costs before a recession takes hold in the US and other... [26 Feb 2008]
Recession fears squeeze tech budgets
News Analyst IDC also predicts the US economic downturn will hit global technology spending next year, with growth rates down from about seven per cent in 2007 to six per cent in 2008. David Suthers, CIO for Masterlease, said: "Along with increased... [24 Jan 2008]
Does superfast broadband Britain stink of sewage?
News The UK's competitiveness minister, Stephen Timms, has said ultra fast broadband is going to be a key technology to drive future growth of the economy. Plans are afoot that could see something speeding out of the UK's sewers and into people's homes. [23 Jan 2008]
Q&A: Pen Hadow, explorer
Comment For example we believe we may be able to discern the age of each ice pan or ice flow that we cross - because, like growth rings on a tree, there are growth rings in the under-shelf of the ice each time it starts to freeze when a winter comes, so... [21 Jan 2008]
Showcasing Our Business Partners' Solutions and Successes Through PartnerWorld Industry Networks
White Paper The company wanted to enable integration between an early, "Green screen," text-based application and a Web interface to support business growth. The company deployed IBM DB2 Universal Database for iSeries, IBM OS/400, IBM WebSphere Application... [17 Nov 2007]
Data centres fuelling climate change?
News This will help curb excessive data-centre growth and act as a counterbalance to deploying energy-inefficient hardware. In a separate research advisory published this week, Gartner said that green technology is now number one in the company's rating... [12 Oct 2007]
From CIO to consultant: Time for giving
Comment That makes CSR one area of business growth where everyone should win. Everywhere you look, businesses are starting to wake up to the notion of corporate social responsibility - with CSR, its inevitable three-letter acronym, popping up almost daily... [27 Sep 2007]
Revealed: Top UK base for IT businesses
News Dave Carter, head of the Manchester Digital Development Agency, told silicon.com the city has seen sustainable and "steady growth" within the IT industry and hopes to carry on its success using the Manchester-based MediaCity:UK complex and the... [26 Sep 2007]
