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    1. Prudential Financial: 1,000 servers moved into a virtual environment

      Explore IDG News Service (Oct 24 2011) Solar

      Prudential Financial: 1,000 servers moved into a virtual environment When Mary O'Malley became Prudential's environmental task force chairperson in 2007, she found that the company's IT department was already focused on being green. "A lot of their work was focusing on facilities, renewable energy investments and employee volunteer efforts around conservation and stewardship," says O'Malley, vice president of local initiatives at Prudential Financial. Prudential's technology folks have accomplished much more since then, and in the past year, IT has continued to lead projects that yield green benefits. (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Google   Yahoo   Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

    2. How to Save Energy with Cloud Computing

      Explore IDG News Service (Sep 15 2011) Cloud Computing

      How to Save Energy with Cloud Computing Beyond the processor, overall data center design and location strategies need to be ... and environmental strain that server energy consumption is causing. While energy efficiency in IT has been an important topic for years, we are now on the verge of ... (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Facebook   Interactive Data Corporation

    3. Intel Is Dead on the Desktop, Says AMD Co-Founder

      Explore IDG News Service (Nov 24 2010) Cloud Computing

      Intel Is Dead on the Desktop, Says AMD Co-Founder Intel is doomed, Hermann Hauser has claimed in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. If you don't know who Hauser is, he happens to be one of the co-founders of ARM--possibly Intel's most dangerous foe in the semiconductor marketplace, when also-rans like AMD and VIA are removed from the equation.Intel is doomed, Hermann Hauser has claimed in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. If you don't know who Hauser is, he happens to be one of the co-founders of ARM--possibly Intel's most dangerous foe in the semiconductor marketplace, when also-rans like AMD and VIA are removed from the equation. (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Intel   Google   IBM

    4. Gartner predicts 2011 IT spending rebound in Europe

      Explore IDG News Service (Nov 8 2010)

      Gartner predicts 2011 IT spending rebound in Europe Gartner has predicted that enterprise IT spending in Europe, the Middle East and Africa will recover in 2011, after two years of decline. However, government cutbacks mean that Western Europe is not expected to return to stronger enterprise IT spending growth until 2012. The analyst house forecast that IT spending will reach $795.2 billion (£493.1 billion) in EMEA next year, up 1.3 percent from 2010. (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Europe   Gartner   Cisco

    5. 25 new IT companies to watch

      Explore IDG News Service (Oct 25 2010) Cloud Computing

      25 new IT companies to watch The next generation of IT vendors has arrived on the scene. Driven by a tentative economic recovery that is seeing venture capitalists release a few more dollars to tech startups, and a need to create tools for the world of cloud computing and virtualization, a flood of young technology companies is hitting the market. The next generation of IT vendors has arrived on the scene. Driven by a tentative economic recovery that is seeing venture capitalists release a few more dollars to tech startups, and a need to create tools for the world of cloud computing and virtualization, a flood of young technology companies is hitting the market. (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Apple   Amazon.com   Larry Ellison

    6. The Time is Ripe for Green IT

      Explore IDG News Service (May 12 2010) Construction , Emissions

      The Time is Ripe for Green IT If former US vice presidential candidate and Nobel peace prize laureate Al Gore's pressing documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" is to be believed, then the Earth is slowly heading to an ecological nosedive, based largely on rising man-made carbon dioxide emissions around the globe.s-- (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Gartner   Interactive Data Corporation   Frost

    7. Data centre electrical costs are skyrocketing: Raritan

      Explore IDG News Service (Apr 22 2010) Servers

      Data centre electrical costs are skyrocketing: Raritan It is an open secret that electrical costs of data centres are skyrocketing, says power management firm Raritan, which recommends better measurement strategies as the first step to better cost containment. Latest news from Environment The green IT stars of 2010 (22.04.2010 kl 10:13) Data centre electrical costs are skyrocketing: Raritan (21.04.2010 kl 18:40) Create a more energy-efficient network infrastructure (19.04.2010 kl 21:37) Networks go green and save you money (19.04.2010 kl 21:37) Twitter's ad scheme, Kin phone, ACTA unveiled (16.04.2010 kl 21:06) EPA, industry to meet on greener storage (14.04.2010 kl 19:03) It is an open secret that electrical costs of data centres are skyrocketing, says power management firm Raritan, which recommends better measurement strategies as the first step to better cost containment. "Though the price of servers has come ... (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   The Green Grid   Frost

    8. Is Google the new Rome?

      Explore IDG News Service (Apr 22 2010) Cloud Computing

      based data center. It is making an exception for government customers, such as the City of Los Angeles, which, as part ... The green IT stars of 2010 InfoWorld's 2010 Green 15 Awards: Green-tech projects coupled with innovation and collaboration ... (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Europe   Google   InfoWorld

    9. Networks go green and save you money

      Explore IDG News Service (Apr 19 2010) Networking , Servers

      Networks go green and save you money Servers get most of the glory when it comes to energy management, but networking gear is about to catch up. Over the past year, network equipment vendors have began to emphasize energy efficiency features, something that was never a top priority before, says Dale Cosgro, a product manager in Hewlett-Packard Co.'s ProCurve network products organization. Networking infrastructure isn't in the same class as servers or storage in terms of overall power consumption -- there are far more servers than switches -- but networking can account for up to 15% of the total power budget. And unlike servers, which have sophisticated power management controls, networking equipment must always be on and ready to accept traffic. (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Cisco   Accenture   Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

    10. 10 Hot Tools For The Next-Generation Data Center

      Explore IDG News Service (Mar 22 2010) Cloud Computing , Servers

      10 Hot Tools For The Next-Generation Data Center Enterprise data centers are notoriously complex, costly and energy inefficient, which leaves plenty of opportunity for innovative vendors to introduce products to make life easier for data center managers. Best of Tests 2010 Here are 10 that are worth a look. 1. Cloudkick SaaS application Vendor: Cloudkick Price: From $99 to $599 monthly, depending on the number of servers. Customized packages are available. What it does: Manages and monitors multiple cloud services from a single dashboard. Why it's interesting: The beauty of cloud computing services lies in simplicity, in easing IT constraints in the data center with on-demand compute or storage resources. But management can be beastly – especially if your organization is contending with multiple cloud providers. (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Intel   The Green Grid

    11. Going green? Check out available tax credits

      Explore IDG News Service (Feb 22 2010) Solar

      Going green? Check out available tax credits As if significant savings on electricity bills weren't enough, IT managers have another reason to embrace environmentally friendly IT practices: a bevy of federal, state and local tax incentives that could tip the scales to make green IT projects financially attractive. As if significant savings on electricity bills weren't enough, IT managers have another reason to embrace environmentally friendly IT practices: a bevy of federal, state and local tax incentives that could tip the scales to make green IT projects financially attractive. (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   CA

    12. APC plans new push into containerized data centers

      Explore IDG News Service (Feb 12 2010) Cloud Computing

      APC plans new push into containerized data centers Power and cooling company APC by Schneider Electric will make a new push this year into the market for containerized data centers, this time including portable infrastructure gear such as generators and chillers. Latest news from Environment APC plans new push into containerized data centers (12.02.2010 kl 22:06) 5 reasons Silicon Valley might stumble coming out of recession (12.02.2010 kl 15:40) HP opens first ever wind-cooled data center (12.02.2010 kl 10:10) IBM explores cheaper solar cells (10.02.2010 kl 20:52) HP opens first ever wind-cooled data center (10.02.2010 kl 14:24) US gov't to offer to climate change data (09.02.2010 kl 15:48) Power and cooling company APC by Schneider Electric will make a new push this year into the market for containerized data centers, this time including portable infrastructure gear such as generators ... (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Sun Microsystems   Oracle   Hewlett Packard

    13. DHS to review report on vulnerability in West Coast power grid

      Explore IDG News Service (Sep 15 2009) Networking

      DHS to review report on vulnerability in West Coast power grid The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is looking at a report by a research scientist in China that shows how a well-placed attack against a small power subnetwork could trigger a cascading failure of the entire West Coast power grid. Latest news from Government DHS to review report on vulnerability in West Coast power grid (14.09.2009 kl 20:44) Heartland CEO: Credit card encryption needed (14.09.2009 kl 18:23) Lenovo founder shares slogans, tells tales of 1980s China (14.09.2009 kl 14:36) Microsoft Betrayed i4i, Say Court Documents (14.09.2009 kl 10:05) Jobs appears, Moto's Cliq, Microsoft opens up (11.09.2009 kl 22:29) Gonzalez pleads guilty to TJX, other data heists (11.09.2009 kl 19:28) The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is looking at a report by a research scientist in China that shows how ... (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Facebook   Microsoft Corp

    14. With recent outages, big data service providers take hits

      Explore IDG News Service (Aug 18 2009) Cloud Computing

      With recent outages, big data service providers take hits A variety of Internet-based service providers have seen outages in recent months, raising questions about whether recession-induced cutbacks are killing reliability. Or is the increasing use of external cloud providers, coupled with near-instantaneous Twitter reports of outages, just making what's normal seem worse? When eBay Inc.'s PayPal unit suffered an outage Aug. 3, one of the companies affected was Sailrite Enterprises Inc., a sailing supply company in Churubusco, Ind. Sailrite lost its customer payment services for six hours. The next day, PayPal's services failed again -- (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Google   Cisco   Ken Brill

    15. Data centers go underground (and comparison chart)

      Explore IDG News Service (Jul 28 2009) Power and Cooling

      Data centers go underground (and comparison chart) For Continental and Marriott, abandoned mines and military bunkers offer a subterranean safe haven from hurricanes and other threats. But will more enterprises follow? As Hurricane Ike bore down on Houston one Friday last September, the Continental Airlines' flight operations center, located on the 14th floor of a glass-sided downtown high rise, suddenly went dark. For the airline's pilots and flight crews, however, business proceeded as usual. (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Gartner