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Virtualisation: Real-life tales of how to get it right
Comment John Tuccillo, chairman of the board for The Green Grid, a confederation of end-user and vendor organisations focusing on energy efficiency, believes companies have begun to realise that virtualisation isn't the panacea... [20 Nov 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 20.11.09
Round-Up To top it all off, half of the IT workers who responded to the study claimed they drink energy drinks every single day. Wheezing. Coughing and spluttering. Unable to complete basic tasks without falling over. [20 Nov 2009]
Jaguar races to fastest supercomputer glory with AMD's juice
News Housed at the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the Jaguar can reach a performance speed of 1.75 petaflop per second. AMD processors power the top three fatest supercomputers in the world,... [17 Nov 2009]
Application Whitelisting and Energy Systems - A Good Match?
White Paper The second section discusses the use of whitelist technologies in a SCADA and Energy environment and how it can help solve some unique security challenges. This white paper is broken into three basic sections. [13 Nov 2009]
Inside IFRS: The Opportunity for Energy IT
White Paper While the proposed timelines for IFRS adoption appear to be far away and not urgent, there are many reasons for energy companies to begin planning now. Conversion to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)... [13 Nov 2009]
A Better Way to Secure Utility IT Infrastructure - NERC Compliance for Bulk Power Systems
White Paper Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and Canada's National Energy Board (NEB), cyber security standard compliance has become an increasing priority for the power utility industry. System downtime,... [13 Nov 2009]
Hardening Critical Systems at Electrical Utilities: Meeting Regulatory Requirements Through Endpoint Controls
White Paper Electrical power utilities generate and distribute the energy that is needed to drive the economy, as well as daily life, in modern America. Securing nation's critical power infrastructure has never been more important. [13 Nov 2009]
Securing Critical Infrastructures Through Security Information Management
White Paper These include the energy sector, which has issued the Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) standards through the North American Electric Corporation (NERC). Several of the critical infrastructure sectors have issued... [13 Nov 2009]
Solving the Top IT Security & Audit Issues
White Paper Several macro trends are driving the increased IT audit pressure including new government regulations, globalization, and the need to improve energy efficiencies. There is increased scrutiny of how business applications,... [13 Nov 2009]
Planning for the Unknown: Mitigating Unknown and Unknowable Risks Through Effective Enterprise Risk Management
White Paper Emerging risks, such as climate change, food insecurity, energy supply disruption, and global liquidity crisis are but a few risks once thought unlikely that have now risen to the forefront. The impact of emerging risks... [13 Nov 2009]
Westminster computing put on size-zero diet
News Thanks to the energy savings the software has made, the department achieved ROI on the cost of using the system in about six months. Other government energy-saving initiatives include the Department for... [13 Nov 2009]
A Burst of Clean-Energy: How 3D Visualization Can Help to Achieve Commercial Objectives
White Paper This paper will examine the challenges of presenting products and projects in the renewable energy sector and introduces the many advantages of 3D visualization to help achieve company's commercial objectives. [12 Nov 2009]
nCircle Solutions for NERC CIP Compliance
White Paper The original guidelines addressing cyber security in the energy infrastructure are known as NERC 1200 UAS. This standard was passed in 2003, in response to the Homeland Security Act of 2002. It was designed to reduce the... [12 Nov 2009]
Server Workload Analysis for Power Minimization Using Consolidation
White Paper Server consolidation has emerged as a promising technique to reduce the energy costs of a data center. In this work, the author presents the first detailed analysis of an enterprise server workload from the perspective... [12 Nov 2009]
Stopping Spam in Higher Education
White Paper Student and faculty users, most of who are already pressed for time, must spend additional energy sifting through unwanted messages to make sure the legitimate ones get through. The rise in spam is a pain point for... [12 Nov 2009]
