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The Drive for Green IT: Consolidation in the Federal Data Center

whitepaper "Green IT" has gained some significant exposure in the market place recently. But the underlying driver of "Green IT" should be a familiar one to many in the data center markets; and that driver would be financial.

Tags: infrastructure management

[11 May 2008]

IT and the environment; a new item on the CIO's agenda?

whitepaper It's difficult to open a newspaper, turn on the TV or browse the internet right now without stumbling across commentary, opinion and argument about all kinds of 'green issues'. The Economist Intelligence Unit conducted a major online survey in June...

Tags: data center, assets, departments, affect

[11 May 2008]

Data Centers Are Adopting Green Initiatives But Are Wary of Vendors' Marketing Messages

whitepaper The IT industry and business in general are slowly waking up to the impact they are having on the environment. While the newspaper headlines target the growth of cheap flights as a leading cause of global warming, some commentators have suggested...

Tags: data center

[11 May 2008]

Go Green With Home Agents: How a Virtual Contact Center Can Be Good for Profitability, Competitiveness, and the Environment

whitepaper It's too small to be visible to the naked eye, but it's causing a shift in global business that's hard to ignore. Or it might be the employees who are asking the company to evolve with their image of themselves as environmentally responsible...

Tags: call center - contact

[11 May 2008]

The Path to a Green Data Center

whitepaper As IT organizations worldwide move through the millennium, they face the combined challenge of exponential data growth, dwindling energy resources, rising energy costs, and increased pressure to operate in an environmentally sound manner.

Tags: data center

[11 May 2008]

Met Office forecasts blue skies for green IT

News Green innovations abound in the IT department, the lifetime of systems has been extended from about three to eight years, employees only have one computer each and old machines are passed on to its international network of volunteer data gatherers.

Tags: met office, energy, green it

[09 May 2008]

Green dream fuels shift in Whitehall

News Government IT is undergoing a major shift as Whitehall attempts to revolutionise its approach to green computing. Two government departments - Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs (HMRC) and the Highways Agency showcased their environmental credentials...

Tags: energy, climate change, green

[09 May 2008]

UK blueprint on how tech can beat climate change

News The government is to lead the way in Green IT by launching a national strategy to cut computer-related carbon emissions. Government CIO John Suffolk announced the Green IT Strategy, saying it would be scrutinised by ministers over the next eight...

Tags: climate change, energy, green it

[08 May 2008]

Sun unveils JavaFX for rich web apps

News Find out what's hot on the top tech execs' agendas for 2008…   Video: CIO Agenda 2008   Naked CIO: The true cost of IT   Why IT must escape the belt-tightening   Cost-cutting tops CIO priorities diams...

Tags: ria, java, sun

[08 May 2008]

Photos: Beijing Olympics 2008 - tech keeping the games on track

Photo It will host the artistic gymnastics, trampolining and handball competitions during the games. These two giant venues are both located on Beijing's Olympic Green, which is also home to the team charged with making sure the technology underpinning...

Tags: project, infrastructure, olympic

[07 May 2008]

The Greening of Training: How Sustainability is Reshaping Organizational Learning

whitepaper Is your company "going green? Would you like it to? This paper looks at corporate sustainability efforts and the pivotal role that the learning department can play in them. Also included are practical ideas for making training more environmentally...

Tags: online - distance education

[07 May 2008]

Quocirca's Straight Talking: Tighten content security

Comment Others have become, or remain part of, some of the major IT security companies, such as Trend Micro, Symantec, Websense and Secure Computing. Before spam became a big problem, there were still specialist email security vendors like Clearswift and...

Tags: filtering, spam, content

[02 May 2008]

SAP SaaS delay - no surprise

News Green IT from A-Z… But yesterday the company extended this target by 12 to 18 months and added it will reduce investment in the tech by around €100m during 2008 with no further "accelerated" investment planned for 2009.

Tags: delay, erp, on demand, saas

[01 May 2008]

CIOs are driving the green agenda

News Green IT from A to ZClick on the links below to find out more. Meads added: "Certainly I'm seeing equally the number of CIOs that I'm meeting are the green ambassador or at least sitting on a green council because it's recognised they have a role...

Tags: cisco, green, cios

[01 May 2008]

IBM tools to curb data centres' power-hungry appetite?

News Green IT from A to ZClick on the links below to find out more. IBM is expanding in so-called green data centres as it looks for new growth areas in developed regions such as Western Europe, as well as in developing countries that are spending...

Tags: data centres, ibm, green

[01 May 2008]

EC: Oracle-BEA gets the go-ahead

News Green IT from A-Z… The Commission has said it approved the acquisition under EU law. The Commission concluded that the transaction would not significantly impede effective competition in the European Economic Area (EEA) or any substantial part of it.

Tags: bea, oracle

[01 May 2008]

Satyam spices up silver screen with latest effects

News Green IT from A-Z… Subir Sarbabidya, VP of sales and relationship management for Satyam BPO, said it had a deal in place to get more of its work in cinemas. The glamour of Hollywood and the Indian outsourcing industry will collide on the big screen...

Tags: hollywood, bpo, india

[29 Apr 2008]

India's high-tech cities, web whispers, Babbage's Difference engine and more...

Photo Click here for photos of it being installed in the museum. Glowing green excerpts dance across a curved bank of 231 screens and are randomly read by computer-synthesised voices. Once it has reached an object, sensors in its hands will guide it on...

Tags: hyderabad, robots, bangalore

[29 Apr 2008]

AMD chips into business market

News Green IT from A-Z… AMD has released a series of chips which it claims has the stability and performance required for machines aimed at business users. On Monday the chipmaker launched what it is calling its Business Class platform, previously code...

Tags: chips, intel, amd

[29 Apr 2008]

'Green' technology can't save us from ourselves

Comment Green IT from A to ZClick on the links below to find out more. It's now commonly held that this is a 'green technology'. But it's certainly not rare to see big claims made on its behalf, whether it's the apparent cost savings to be gained by...

Tags: climate change, technology, videoconferencing

[28 Apr 2008]

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