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Time to green-light sustainable IT
Comment Equipment PCs, servers, printers, cooling systems - all come with an embodied carbon footprint. True sustainability is much more than hammering the data centre over power, says Martin Atherton. The current penchant for invoking green IT whenever... [17 Jul 2008]
Dear silicon.com: Tech teacher shortage, Kangaroo and phones on planes
Comment This will ensure compatibility across multiple players and only require one set of servers instead of one set for each broadcaster. The issue that got readers talking this week was the IT-teacher drought - is "boring" IT to blame? [03 Jul 2008]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: A game of two halves
Comment A key part of virtualisation is in managing the provision of applications to virtual servers. Microsoft may be emerging as a force to be reckoned with in virtualisation. But the software giant's approach to SOA is woeful, says Clive Longbottom. [30 Jun 2008]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Tighten content security
Comment The vendors' software was installed on email servers themselves - at the heart of the IT department, which was the last place spam with its sometimes viral payloads was welcome. With the problem of spam in check rather than cured, focus has shifted... [02 May 2008]
IT must be called to account over emissions
Comment More than a quarter (28 per cent) admit they do not know the exact number of servers they have, and a similar number are not aware of all devices connected to their networks. Virtualisation of IT assets, enabling far higher levels of utilisation of... [07 Apr 2008]
The McCue Interview: Steven Bandrowczak, CIO, Nortel
Comment That includes two major data centres and 12 satellite centres, along with 1,500 servers and 40,000 desktops running Windows XP, and SAP for business applications. Being the CIO for a tech vendor can often be something of a double-edged sword. [01 Apr 2008]
Dear silicon.com... NHS 'savings', e-crime coppers, skills crisis?...
Comment With most e-crime targeting UK business coming from servers in foreign countries, how does the UK police feel it is able to do this? Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are responding to the latest tech news and views on the site.e... [20 Mar 2008]
Editor's Blog: Lords above!
Comment Of course, there're no easy votes in a data breaches law and no easy photo opportunity for any politician who might want to champion it - kissing servers isn't quite as appealing as kissing babies, I guess. [27 Feb 2008]
Tech Visions: New media floods firms' networks
Comment As content from iPods, TV and websites starts to invade enterprise routers and servers, pundits continue to underestimate the impact social media is already having on CIOs and IT managers everywhere. Experts are forecasting an important role in the... [19 Feb 2008]
Legal Eye: Scrabble-Facebook row spells trouble
Comment Another challenge for the legal community will be how multi-jurisdictional issues are played out with Facebook's servers located in the US and Scrabulous developers based in India. It's a case with wide implications, says DLA Piper's Simon Levine. [29 Jan 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Getting thinner fast
Comment Most likely we will retain some substantial processing power and memory but increasingly rely on near and distant servers to provide transient content, as well as connections to additional processing power. [28 Jan 2008]
Losing control in the SaaS lane
Comment As a small and highly distributed business, with neither the time nor the inclination to install and run servers, we have been committed to the SaaS approach for a couple of years now to provide messaging, collaboration and other business systems... [16 Jan 2008]
Virtualisation cuts carbon and servers
Comment Servers haven't traditionally used all of their spare CPU power, because reliability concerns stop administrators running lots of applications on one box. And more importantly, how much energy - and therefore carbon emissions - can be saved by... [21 Dec 2007]
How to baseline power consumption
Comment IBM and HP both have software that can tell their own systems management tools how much energy their servers are using, which is great for those IT departments which exclusively run that equipment. But how easy is it to come up with a baseline and... [14 Dec 2007]
Itanium revisited - one year on
Comment It also offers demand-based switching to improve the power consumption of servers by dialling down the chip when not in use. Manchester University spin-off, Transitive, began shipping a variant of its QuickTransit application emulation environment... [13 Dec 2007]
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