There's more to sustainable IT than low-power servers. consider the materials with which your equipment is made, and you may get a shock, says Simon Perry
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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 some emails not restored
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 look to cut technology costs
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 capabilities more affordable to users
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?
After Ten Years, Is IPv6 Finally Needed?
Internet founder Vint Cerf says the address crisis is serious now - and this time Google believes it
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 just silly, says Peter Judge
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
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 it still needs more power
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
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 their message with the other 90 percent of the company, says Forrester's Chris Mines.
Swede Faces Nasa-hacking Charges
After a federal investigation, the 21-year-old man now faces multiple charges here in the United States
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 electricity consumption by a whopping 166,643 megawatt hours from 2008 to 2013
Cisco Reports 24 Percent Profits Fall
Product sales decreased by 22 percent, while service maintenance sales climbed by 9.4 percent, Cisco says.
Green PC Specialist Sets Sights on Server
PC power management specialist 1E is launching a product aimed at the server
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 turn energy into computing power
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 ruled out any significant use of open source software
Vizioncore Manages Multiple Virtual Machines
vControl lets end users set up virtual machines in the leading hypervisor environments - and IT can manage them all from one screen
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
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 the world too (or at least manage their buildings)
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
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 internet communications
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
Windows 7’s Costly Compatibility Issues
Polished yes, but elevated costs ensuring hardware and software compatibility may hold back business adoption of Windows 7
EU Wants ICANN Free Of US Government Control
Less government involvement in a fully privatised ICANN is the way forward according to European regulators
Nvidia Makes Green Claims For Supercomputing Cluster
Using the Nvidia cluster means both access to computing capacity and reduced power consumption, the company says
Supermicro Offering Atom-based Servers
The Atom chips should enable Supermicro to offer efficient and quiet servers for such roles as data storage and network appliances
Office 2007 Service Pack 2: A Major Update
Tighter server integration keeps Office ahead of Linux/OpenOffice, but SP2 could create headaches for IT organisations.
Chip Sales Slump By 30 Percent
First quarter bad for chip makers - though things picked up a bit in March.
Rackable Cleared To Buy SGI
But court insists on a higher price for a Silicon Valley pioneer