Cisco Beckons Carriers to the Cloud – Light Reading Cisco is announcing a blueprint called Unified Service Delivery (USD), which it claims will simplify the carrier data center and let carriers make better use of virtualization — the technology that…
Virtualization Pays Off
…or at least IT managers that have implemented the technology in their datacenters seem to think so. This TechRepublic blog post offers us these encouraging words: Even in these fragile economic times, CIOs are investing in virtualization. A 2008…
Green IT News Roundup – Tuesday, May 5
Google Data Center’s Massive Energy Appetite – Reuters …Case in point: over the weekend, the British newspaper the Guardian published the tantalizing statistic that Google’s data center in The Dalles, Oregon, could use as much energy as the entire city…
Green IT News Roundup – Wednesday, April 29
Swine flu threat raises telework questions – Network World Research firm Gartner said the recent outbreaks of swine flu highlight the need for companies to have in place pandemic plans that address workforce absenteeism rates of 40% or higher. The…
Verizon Expands Remote Backup and Restore Service: Model for Green Business Continuity?
One way to save money on an off-site backup infrastructure, plus the associated energy and management costs, is to pay a subscription fee to a firm that has already gone and built its share of geographically distributed datacenters. In Verizon’s…
Green IT News Roundup – Tuesday, April 28
Intel tops green power purchasing list – BusinessGreen.com Computer chip giant Intel has retained its title as the largest purchaser of renewable energy in the US, topping the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) latest list of green power purchasers after buying…
Green IT News Roundup – Monday, April 27
Lowering data center cooling costs with airflow modeling and perforated raised-floor tiles – SearchDataCenter.com An Uptime Institute study of 19 computer rooms with a total of 204,000 square feet determined that most facilities are ill prepared to remove current heat…
Assessing the State of Virtualization Security
Government Computer News explores the topic of virtualization and security, and depending on whom you believe, we’re either “halfway there” or well behind the curve. But there’s some encouraging news as the technology takes hold in the datacenter, IT workers…
Green IT News Roundup – Thursday, April 23
Go green: Turn off your computer with your iPhone/iPod Touch – CrunchGear Why didn’t any of us think of this? The creator of a VLC controller app for the iPhone has just released a clever little app that turns off…
Green IT News Roundup – Tuesday, April 21
Tom Friedman to data centers: ‘Get ready for carbon tax’ – TechTarget If there’s anything a data center manager can take from a Tom Friedman talk on disappearing sea ice and petro-dictatorships, it’s this: A carbon emission tax on…
