Downturn driving green IT into data centres

07/02/2009

The recession is driving green IT into data centres, and organisations that are facing continued pressure on their budgets and data centre resource, are now actively investigating software and outsourcing alternatives.

Vineyard virtualises with Microsoft in carbon neutral plan

07/01/2009

Monte Vibiano, a wine and olive oil producer in Italy, is using Microsoft virtualisation technology in a bid to help it become carbon neutral.

How Raytheon's IT Department Helps Meet Green Goals

06/29/2009

Corporate sustainability programs that address efficiencies throughout an organization will make the greatest impact over time. Following that premise, Raytheon's sustainability initiative involves a green IT strategy ...

Energy-efficient servers earn a star -- but so what?

06/26/2009

The Energy Star program for servers is a good first step, most agree, but it measures energy use only under limited circumstances and does not include popular hardware types, like blade servers -- at least not yet.

Many companies say they will adopt cloud computing within two years

06/23/2009

Microsoft-sponsored study on IT spending shows green is out, cloud computing is in and security is still painful.

Wireless backhaul to go next-generation by 2012: IDC

06/18/2009

Research firm IDC predicts there will be more than three million base stations and more than 1.8 million cell sites in the Asia Pacific (including Japan) carrier network by 2012. This represents a growth of 24.3 per ...

Springboard: Most Asia Pacific firms lack green IT strategy

06/18/2009

Less than 10 percent of 1,200 surveyed firms across Asia Pacific have formally implemented a green IT strategy despite widespread awareness of green IT's ability to cut carbon footprint and improve ROI, said Springboard ...