Reuters is reporting that VMware is offering a 40 percent discount to Virtual Iron customers if they make the switch. Virtual Iron, which tailored virtualization solutions toward SMBs, was bought by Oracle in May and was promptly shuttered as a…
Centralized Power Management Drives IT Energy Efficiency at Fairmont Hotels
Power management is often described as a low-hanging fruit in establishing a green IT strategy. It seems dead simple: set your desktop and PCs to sleep or power-down after X-number of minutes and bask in lower energy bills. But…
Microsoft Welcomes Everyone Hohm
Disappointed that there was little else to greet you than a sign-up page when Microsoft announced its household power management site Hohm? You weren’t the only one. Luckily, it didn’t take them very long to open the floodgates. If you…
Green IT News Roundup – Tuesday, July 7
Scotland lures ‘green’ computer centres – Financial Times Close to the small town of Lockerbie, the development would use local wind farms, a biomass plant and heat transferfrom the data centre to provide renewable energy for more than 700 homes….
Virtualization Anchors FAA Air Traffic System Modernization
The FAA is nearly finished with a modernization project that relies heavily on virtual machines to process messages for the National Airspace Data Interchange Network, segmenting data for federal and civil air traffic and bringing legacy functionality and newer IP…
IBM Study: Green IT on Midsized Businesses' Radar
IBM’s survey of midsized businesses, “Inside the Midmarket: A 2009 Perspective” (PDF), reveals that a large majority of organizations in the 100 – 1000 employee bracket have Green IT squarely in their radar: This year’s survey also illustrates the…
InterHome Watches You, Saves Energy Accordingly
Researchers at the University of Hertfordshire are showing off InterHome at Microsoft Imagine Cup taking place right now. The modular home automation project has a lot of neat elements that meld X10 integration, motion sensors, mobile technology, and Web…
CA Targets vSphere 4 and Cisco Nexus 1000V Management
Wondering what CA has in store for virtual servers and private clouds running vSphere 4 and Cisco Nexus 1000V hardware? CA today announced that it is streamlining the management of VMware vSphere 4 platform on Cisco Nexus 1000V infrastructures by…
Green IT News Roundup – Monday, July 6
Cloud interoperability remains wispy, but progress being made – Network World The group will let individual vendors demonstrate interoperability between two clouds and document methodologies to ensure that interoperability, according to Staten. The group thus tackles interoperability on a case-by-case…
Microsoft's Hohm vs. Google's Powermeter
Wondering what the two tech titans (matrix comparing Google’s PowerMeter and Microsoft’s Hohm and what each has in store for eco-minded homeowners. As it stands now, Hohm seems to have an edge over PowerMeter. Hohm is looking more like a…
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