utilisation
3 Strategies for Reducing IT Support Costs
White Paper Download the White Paper to learn: -- Why IT utilisation, end-user support and maintenance budgets are the most strategic areas to investigate -- How to effectively approach cost-saving measures within these areas while... [02 Nov 2009]
CIOs waste energy and budget as one in six servers go unused
News In its survey of server managers, nearly three-quarters said 15 per cent or more of their servers were not doing anything useful, while 83 per cent of managers admitted they do not have an adequate grasp of server... [19 Oct 2009]
Dell's secret to riding out the recession
Comment Now, thanks to virtualisation, the company has boosted processor utilisation rates beyond the 20 per cent it was getting previously and it plans to decommission about 8,000 servers by January 2010 - just under a third of... [04 Sep 2009]
Great Communication Delivers Excellent Results
White Paper The organisation was experiencing explosive data growth and low server utilisation. IT personnel at John Brown spent too much time managing infrastructure issues. Launching development environments was time consuming. [30 Jul 2009]
Is Chrome ready to shine when it comes to security?
News Billy Hoffman, manager of Web Security Research Group at HP Software and Solutions, said: "Google Chrome from day 1 had its own task manager, just like Windows did, showing memory consumption and CPU utilisation. [23 Jul 2009]
SAP puts its services to the test
News On Friday, Sugen and SAP announced that the first two KPIs to be measured will be CPU utilisation levels and storage performance, with KPIs for support response times and service uptime to follow next. [07 Jul 2009]
Tech big guns form cloud standards group
News The scope of this activity is focused on mainly cloud resource-management aspects of infrastructure-as-a-service with some work touching on platform-as-a-service including SLAs, QoS, utilisation, provisioning and... [29 Apr 2009]
Quocirca Insight Report: Data Centre Asset Planning -- Regaining control of the data centre
White Paper The report also includes five recommendations based on the belief that only a thorough and rigorous approach to data centre design and utilisation can enable the IT function to regain full control of spiraling power and... [18 Mar 2009]
Tesco virtualises 1,500 servers to save costs and carbon
News The virtualisation work will also lead to CPU utilisation of around 70 per cent compared to six per cent previously. Tesco will significantly boost efficiency and reduce carbon emissions when it completes a project to... [13 Mar 2009]
Is five per cent of your IT budget the green piece?
News The John Lewis Partnership, for example, is running Unix machines in production at around 80 per cent utilisation, which means they are using a half to a third of the number of machines to accomplish the same tasks as... [04 Mar 2009]
CSC reveals £25m Virgin Atlantic deal
News We are looking to double utilisation and reduce the hardware by a factor of four, much of it is end of life anyway and needs replacing so now is the right time to do this," Cope added. CSC has today revealed a deal it... [23 Jan 2009]
Virgin Atlantic's IT director on budget cuts and having fun
Comment We are looking to double utilisation and reduce the hardware by a factor of four, much of it is end of life anyway and needs replacing so now is the right time to do this. How many CIOs can say that their company motto... [20 Jan 2009]
Sub-$200 netbooks on the cards from Freescale
News We believe our power-efficient solution, combined with Linux, plus some special application widget-based software, will enable a new kind of utilisation of the internet," Cammal said. New players want a simple... [06 Jan 2009]
Getting your IT department ready for 2009
News Charles Ward, COO of IT trade association Intellect, added: "If you want to do more with what you have got then trying to up your utilisation in this way just makes sense. With the world in the grip of an economic... [29 Dec 2008]
Getting to the meeting - without the journey
Comment Despite low utilisation, the company persevered and installed it in a further 11 sites. Utilisation rates have been high. Would you rather sweat in a traffic jam, anxious about running late for a meeting... [30 Jun 2008]