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Whitehall IT to be carbon neutral by 2020
News The guidelines include: removing active screensavers from desktop PCs; switching monitors to standby after five minutes inactivity; automatically shutting down desktop computers outside working hours; reusing as much computer equipment as possible... [17 Jul 2008]
'Greedy' appliances to power one million homes
News Efficiency improvements to the greediest home appliances - including power supplies for laptops, mobile phones and printers - can save enough energy to power 1.5 million homes, according to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs... [14 Jul 2008]
Google: Server efficiency needs different approach
News Naturally, with at least hundreds of thousands of servers in operation and its data centres placed near power plants to cut electricity costs, Google is trying to get computing-equipment makers more excited about efficiency. [25 Jun 2008]
Vodafone CEO: We will slash CO2 by 50 per cent
News It resonates from a financial perspective, as improving energy efficiency helps us to control costs. There are no simple solutions to what is a complex challenge but, through operational changes and technological innovation, we will focus on... [22 Apr 2008]
Corus hammers out £26m IT deal with Capgemini
News Bruno Laquet, CIO at Corus, said in a statement: "The quality and efficiency of our mainframe systems is of key importance to our customers and employees in ensuring that we manufacture and deliver the right products with the right quality at the... [17 Apr 2008]
Marks & Spencer hands £19m IT deal to Computacenter
News Last month M&S also awarded a four-year managed service contract to tech services provider Logicalis to improve the efficiency of the retailer's IT network and support the cost-effective rollout of new tech services. [12 Dec 2007]
Green IT - do companies really care?
News Reliability, price and after-sales support are still the biggest factors when making IT purchases, it found - with only 12 per cent of 213 CIO respondents saying the energy efficiency of IT equipment is a critical purchasing criterion. [27 Sep 2007]
Virtualisation - a CIO's best friend?
News Businesses are dealing with more data, they're trying to get data out to more places in the organisation and to do that they need high performance systems and we continue to see performance improvement in all kinds of systems - what we need to see... [14 Sep 2007]
Gov shared services spending to hit $1.27bn
News By turning to shared services Datamonitor says public bodies can improve the efficiency of technology rollouts and create an environment in which all parts of the business can fully benefit from technology. [06 Sep 2007]
Co-op to axe 1,000 jobs in £100m efficiency drive
News Co-operative Financial Services (CFS) is to cut 1,000 jobs this year as part of plans to reduce operating costs by £100m by the end of June 2008 but will also boost investment in new technology. The company said no call centre jobs would be lost as... [20 Jul 2007]
Smart metering set to take off
News Smart metering is set for massive growth as utilities in Europe and North America overhaul their infrastructure with an eye on energy efficiency, according to analyst Datamonitor. Smart metering uses machine-to-machine communication to enable the... [12 Jul 2007]
Cost and energy benefits driving virtualisation
News Virtualisation will be a key infrastructure priority for CIOs looking to reduce costs and increase energy efficiency over the next 12 months. Graham Yellowley, director of technology services at investment bank Mitsubishi UFJ Securities... [04 May 2007]
Give IT managers incentive to go green, says HP
News HP is getting behind all things sustainable and green, including the idea that IT managers should be given budget incentives to improve IT efficiency. Microsoft has refuted these claims and recently released a survey investigating Vista's in-built... [02 Apr 2007]
Outsource your servers for biggest savings
News A third of organisations studied said increased efficiency was the main reason for outsourcing. The biggest cost-savings in IT outsourcing come from moving infrastructure such as networks and servers out of house - leading to an average cost... [07 Feb 2007]
Spending bonanza to come in public sector IT
News Cost savings targets were set by the government following the Gershon Review of efficiency in the public sector in 2004. Whitehall is looking for public sector organisations to share core tasks, such as HR, finance, IT and procurement, to reduce... [12 Jan 2007]
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