December Technical News
Monday 10th December, 2007
The greening of IT: Do it yourself
About 50 per cent of IT's carbon footprint is generated by the office. Much can be done to reduce this without breaking the bank.
At the most trivial level, screen savers provide a good example. Individually they may only consume a few watts of power but if active on thousands of desktops and laptops they could be costing large companies tens of thousands of pounds per year more than using screen blanking.
Better still, staff could be encouraged to turn off the PC, not just at night but also when they go to a meeting or lunch.
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Source: www.silicon.com
Virtualisation and consolidation top DC strategies
Datacentre managers are increasingly turning to virtualisation to contain costs and manage growth, according to Symantec's latest global state of the datacentre research report.
The report, based on surveys of datacentre managers in 14 countries including the UK by Ziff Davis Enterprise, said Global 2000 enterprises were spending more than £3.2bn annually to help manage datacentre complexity.
The report said server virtualisation and consolidation were considered top cost containment strategies for the majority of respondents, with half implementing virtualisation strategies and 58% implementing consolidation strategies.
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Or click here to read a real life DTP case study on Virtualisation.
Source: www.computerweekly.com
Today more than ever, business is dependent on the constant availability of business applications and the rapidly growing data they create. This is driving increasingly stringent requirements of IT organizations, as they struggle to maintain and improve quality of service while operating with tight IT budgets, already lean IT staff, and limited time available to perform extensive data management functions.
Direct-attached storage (DAS) systems are a common storage infrastructure for these applications, which are usually Windows-based. However, DAS has fundamental limitations that make it very difficult to meet customer requirements for demanding business environments.
IP SANs featuring contemporary iSCSI-based storage systems can provide a new network storage-based architecture that meets the availability, recoverability, and manageability requirements of your business applications, with the cost structure and ease of use appropriate for Windows. To read on please click here.
Source: www.snseurope.com
Lenovo Launches ThinkStation Brand in Fast Lane with the AT&T Williams F1
ThinkStation marks more than ten years since a major PC vendor has entered the workstation market1. The ThinkStation S10 and D10 workstations are designed to offer Lenovo's highest performance and reliability for professionals in the most demanding data and graphics intensive environments, such as computer-aided design/engineering, digital content creation.
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Source: www.lenovo.co.uk