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Met Office forecasts blue skies for green IT

News But the biggest shift has been in computing, where water drawn from a local borehole will provide the constant cooling for its 600 servers and the NEC SX-6 supercomputers, with equivalent power of 8,000 PCs, that forecasts weather and maps climate...

Tags: met office, energy, green it

[09 May 2008]

Green dream fuels shift in Whitehall

News Plumpton said: "IT has a key role to play in meeting government targets on climate change. Government IT is undergoing a major shift as Whitehall attempts to revolutionise its approach to green computing.

Tags: energy, climate change, green

[09 May 2008]

UK blueprint on how tech can beat climate change

News He warned that the UK government has many underground data centres that are directly at risk from climate-change-related flooding. The government is to lead the way in Green IT by launching a national strategy to cut computer-related carbon emissions.

Tags: climate change, energy, green it

[08 May 2008]

'Green' technology can't save us from ourselves

Comment Indeed, when it comes to climate change, many people seem prepared to believe we can engineer our way out of catastrophe - whether it's by developing sophisticated carbon capture and storage techniques, or ramping up nuclear power production, or...

Tags: climate change, technology, videoconferencing

[28 Apr 2008]

Bank admits rising leccy bills on 'green' data centre

News In May 2007, Citi announced what it claimed was a $50m project to address climate change. Banking group Citi is on the verge of completing a major sustainable data centre project but has admitted the power requirements of its IT equipment are...

Tags: green it, bank, data centres

[14 Apr 2008]

HP StorageWorks 3 Data Center Replication White Paper

whitepaper To stay competitive in today's business climate, organizations must find ways to meet their business needs while controlling IT costs. Adding to this burden is the accelerating pace of change, which must be effectively managed for a business to...

Tags: storage management

[11 Apr 2008]

Improving Operational Efficiency Through End-User Management

whitepaper Today's competitive business climate is forcing organizations to find new ways to improve operational efficiency yet ensure customer satisfaction. To address these concerns, enterprises must change their strategy and focus on managing application...

Tags: infrastructure management, customer satisfaction, monitor, perspective

[10 Apr 2008]

BT CEO Ben Verwaayen to step down

News Verwaayen also gets credit for leading BT's drive to push climate change up the agenda, calling for government action on global warming and presiding over a shrinking corporate carbon footprint at BT through initiatives such as investing in energy...

Tags: ofcom, bt, verwaayen

[08 Apr 2008]

Tech budgets escape belt-tightening cuts

News Global IT budget growth remains flat despite the current economic climate and fears of a recession, according to Gartner's latest survey of more than 1,000 organisations. Almost two-thirds (62 per cent) of the 1,011 CIOs questioned reported no...

Tags: budgets, gartner

[07 Apr 2008]

Photos: Flying robots, Colossus codebreaker, virus art

Photo Here the team sits with their equipment which they are using to measure the effect of climate change on the fragile region. Security software firm MessageLabs turned cyber threats into art using code from various malicious programmes.

Tags: supercomputer, robots, viruses, military

[27 Mar 2008]

SMEs not exploiting web potential

News But he warned that with the current concern about the economic climate, companies need to address this issue sooner rather than later. Their stable relationships may be forced to change. Small businesses in the UK are failing to fully exploit the...

Tags: procurement, global, alibaba.com, sme

[25 Mar 2008]

Photos: Conquering the arctic wilderness

Photos: Conquering the arctic wilderness

Photo The team are laden with equipment, as seen here, which will allow them to measure the effect of climate change, thought to be opening up the ice-locked passage. A remote corner of the Arctic, the Northwest Passage, is being tackled by a brave band...

Tags: expedition, software, credit, logistics

[13 Mar 2008]

Understanding the Data Warehouse Lifecycle

whitepaper The pace of business change, combined with the ongoing search for competitive advantage through better decision-making in a climate characterized by commodity transactional systems and (increasingly) commodity decision support infrastructure...

Tags: knowledge and data management

[11 Mar 2008]

Mobile World Congress 2008 Diary - Tuesday

Comment The message is about sustainability, social responsibility and combating climate change. Long tails. I arrive at the Fira early to struggle through the be-suited throng and get my seat at the big name keynotes.

Tags: mobile world congress, china, john, talk

[13 Feb 2008]

UK tech has 12 years to help save the planet

News The UK technology industry has just 12 years to slash its rapidly growing carbon footprint if it is to help the world avoid catastrophic climate change, a study has found. Intellect claims the tech industry can exceed the target set by the CBI...

Tags: green, environment, it, electronics

[12 Feb 2008]

Q&A: Pen Hadow, explorer

Comment Do you believe climate change is being caused by human activity? I'm not a scientist but I've read more than most people about how climate and global warming has come about and yes I think that it is caused predominately by human activity.

Tags: arctic, pen hadow, vanco, climate change

[21 Jan 2008]

Web services slash CO2 emissions

News The research, carried out by environmental consultancy Best Foot Forward, examined the contribution of local council web services to tackling climate change. Online services increasingly being rolled out by local government are saving thousands of...

Tags: savings, co2, councils, local government

[18 Jan 2008]

UK's fastest supercomputer unveiled

News Work due to be carried out using Hector includes forecasting the impact of climate change, projecting the spread of disease epidemics and developing new medicines. The largest and most advanced supercomputer in the UK has been unveiled in Edinburgh.

Tags: cray, supercomputer, scientists, power

[15 Jan 2008]

Energy Sciences Network Enriches Scientific Collaboration With Integrated Voice, Video, and Web Conferencing

whitepaper Behind some of the world's most important scientific projects - the Human Genome, fusion energy research, nanotechnology and research on climate change ? one will find ESnet, a high-speed network serving thousands of scientists and collaborators...

Tags: voip - ip telephony

[10 Jan 2008]

2008: Crunch time for IT jobs?

News The industry is still busy and there are no signs of it slowing down," he told silicon.com, adding: "I'd certainly say we've seen no direct impact on job numbers in it from the economic climate as such.

Tags: jobs, techies, skills, consultancy

[10 Jan 2008]

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