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UK Claims World’s First “Mandated” Green IT Targets

An update to the Greening Government ICT strategy this July will include 10 "mandated targets".. but will that mandate be…

15 years ago

Extreme Brings Hibernation To Network Blades

If your blades can go to sleep, then your hot standby network can be a bit cooler, says Extreme Networks

15 years ago

3Com Launches New H3C Brand and Enterprise Switch

Updated: There's life in 3Com yet. It's pressing its home-market advantage... from its Chinese customer base

15 years ago

Sustainable Supply And the Trouble With Tantalum

There's more to sustainable IT than low-power servers. consider the materials with which your equipment is made, and you may…

15 years ago

Gmail Suffers Two New Outages

Google's Gmail service reportedly failed at 11am this morning - but our evidence is there was an earlier failure with…

15 years ago

BCS Launches “Formal” Green IT Qualification

Issues such as the impact of environmental legislation and reducing carbon emissions will be covered in the three day course…

15 years ago

Businesses Will Buy 3.5m Netbooks in 2010

Research firm Techaisle predicts netbook sales worldwide will climb in 2009 and 2010 as IT budgets get trimmed and companies…

15 years ago

Dell And Nvidia Back Affordable Supercomputing

Dell is offering Nvidia's Tesla GPU technology in three of its Precision workstations, a move it says will make supercomputing…

15 years ago

Ballmer Discusses “Valuable” Yahoo Deal

Microsoft and Yahoo had a much-publicised battle in 2008 surrounding a possible takeover

15 years ago

Google’s Brin Discusses Cloud’s Silver Lining

Despite the global economic recession, Brin is optimistic about Google's ability to innovate and exploit upcoming IT revolutions such as…

15 years ago

Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS) Has Security Gaps

Cisco has formed impressive partnerships for its new UCS, but why is there no security provider.on the list?

15 years ago

After Ten Years, Is IPv6 Finally Needed?

Internet founder Vint Cerf says the address crisis is serious now - and this time Google believes it

15 years ago

Oracle Is Nuts To Stick With Sun Hardware

Larry Ellison has committed Oracle to investing more in Sun's SPARC, apparently because he think servers are like iPhones. That's…

15 years ago

Siemens Offers Whole-Company Green IT Consultancy

Siemens IT for Sustainability could be what the IT department needs to green the other 90 percent of the company

15 years ago

Met Office Wants Green DC Supercomputers

The government's weather prediction department would waste less energy if it avoided converting from DC to AC current - but…

15 years ago

BA: Too Much Vendor “Bollocks” In Green IT

The chief information officer of BA defended the airline's green efforts - while sniping at "greenwash" from IT vendors

15 years ago

Green IT Is Mainstream: Now Comes The Hard Part

The move to greener IT is unstoppable - even in a recession. But IT departments have a tough job getting…

15 years ago

Swede Faces Nasa-hacking Charges

After a federal investigation, the 21-year-old man now faces multiple charges here in the United States

15 years ago

SSDs Could Save Equivalent Of Gambia’s Entire Power Usage

SSD market researcher iSuppli says the increased deployment of SSDs could enable the world's data centres to reduce their cumulative…

15 years ago

Cisco Reports 24 Percent Profits Fall

Product sales decreased by 22 percent, while service maintenance sales climbed by 9.4 percent, Cisco says.

15 years ago

Green PC Specialist Sets Sights on Server

PC power management specialist 1E is launching a product aimed at the server

15 years ago

Deutsche Bank: Blades Key To Green Data Centres

The banking group believes that providing they are deployed in the right way, blade servers are most efficient way to…

15 years ago

London Olympics Says No To Open Source

Despite a mission to make the games as financially and environmentally sustainable as possible, the organisers of London 2012 have…

15 years ago

Vizioncore Manages Multiple Virtual Machines

vControl lets end users set up virtual machines in the leading hypervisor environments - and IT can manage them all…

15 years ago

IBM Makes Its SMB Blades More Dynamic

Upgrades to the BladeCenter Express product should let smaller businesses save power and mix operating systems, IBM says

15 years ago

Microsoft To Lose Another 3000 Staff

That more or less completes the 5000 announced earlier. But there could be more in store

15 years ago

Desktop Power Cuts Beat Server Savings

Desktop management are a quicker green hit than server consolidation, says Andy Lawrence. Oh yes, and IT managers should rule…

15 years ago

ISO 27001 Security Management? “It’s Bloody Brilliant!”

Security standards let management push back against over-enthusiastic IT security fans, says governance expert Alan Calder

15 years ago

UK Spies Compare Web Monitoring To WWII Codebreaking

GCHQ claims an internet surveillance project is nothing sinister but simply part of its ongoing struggle to keep pace with…

15 years ago

Windows Server 2008 R2: Better For Virtualisation

The new 64-bit-only Windows Server hosts a number of virtualisation improvements but migration may be problematic

15 years ago