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  • Aussie businesses lose $3.5m to green scammers 17 March, 2010 11:07:00

    Small businesses and environmentally friendly individuals are prime targets
    Environmentally conscious businesses are being scammed by a false carbon credit investment fund named WesternField Holdings, according to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC).

  • Gartner: Virtualized servers less secure than physical ones 16 March, 2010 09:06:00

    Analyst says virtualization deployment projects aren't considering security in initial architecture and planning stages
    Through 2012, 60 percent of virtualized servers will be less secure than the physical servers they replace, according to Gartner. Although Gartner expects this figure to fall to 30 percent by the end of 2015, analysts warned that many virtualization deployment projects are being undertaken without involving the information security team in the initial architecture and planning stages.

  • IDC: Datacentre management remains sloppy 12 March, 2010 07:23:00

    Virtualisation and automation have created considerable efficiencies in the datacentre, but also brought new problems, according to the analyst firm
    CIOs and IT directors expect spending on staff in their datacentres to dramatically outstrip the overall growth in IT expenditure this year, according to ComputerworldUK's sister analyst group IDC.

  • Sentilla's energy management tool gets chargeback feature 10 March, 2010 08:06:00

    The product aims to help companies reduce energy costs and guard against outages due to capacity constraints
    Sentilla has released an update to its data-center energy management tool, which lets IT and facilities staff track the energy usage of servers and other equipment. The latest version is a software-only product that adds a chargeback capability, allowing companies to bill individual business units for the energy they use.

  • Group seeks to open source data-center design 08 March, 2010 08:02:00

    The Open Source Data Center Initiative wants to pool engineering resources that others can build on and implement
    A new industry group is trying to apply open-source principles to the design and construction of data centers, which it says could accelerate the use of new technologies and increase competition in the industry.
Round Table

  • Roundtable: Sustainable IT 14 October, 2009 15:10:00

    ARN brings together a panel of experts to discuss sustainable IT in Australia
    Awareness of IT’s environment impact, as well as the enablement role it plays in improving society’s carbon footprint, are now dominant considerations for Australian IT providers and their customers. ARN recently brought together a panel of industry experts to discuss how far we’ve come in the quest for sustainable IT. This roundtable was sponsored by Symantec.

  • Sustainable IT: Driving interest 14 October, 2009 15:46:00

    ARN roundtable attendees agree the channel needs to better demonstrate the effective of green solutions
    So how can the channel demonstrate environmental savings to their customers and drive interest in sustainable solutions? ComputerCorp’s Michael van Zoggel said integrators can only do what they can do and what they can measure and justify.

  • Sustainable IT: On-demand computing vs. green 14 October, 2009 15:44:00

    Roundtable attendees debate the affect of on-demand computing on green IT
    It’s one thing to talk about greening your own infrastructure by better utilising or buying more energy efficient assets, but what happens when those computing resources are being delivered by a third-party provider? Is outsourcing in fact, a way to minimise your carbon impact?

  • Slideshow: ARN's sustainable IT roundtable 14 October, 2009 15:17:00

    A collection of images and industry expert comments from ARN's sustainable IT roundtable.
    A collection of images and industry expert comments from ARN's sustainable IT roundtable.

  • Sustainable IT: End-of-life considerations 14 October, 2009 15:47:00

    Don't forget about e-waste disposal and end-of-life considerations, attendees warn
    While most of the conversation at ARN’s Sustainable IT roundtable focused on energy efficiency, a critical issue that can’t be forgotten is asset disposal. E-waste is a massive problem around the world and one that’s not easy to contain, Symantec’s Jose Iglesias said.
Features

  • Cloud, Virtualization: Wasting IT Resources 01 March, 2010 06:20:00

    The way virtual machines send data to and from storage devices degrades server performance and wastes storage
    Despite enhancements on both cloud and virtual computing products, major vendors aren't taking into account many of the ways even a technology designed to save IT resources can unintentionally waste them.

  • NY hospital cuts power bill with thin-client virtualization 05 February, 2010 04:33:00

    It hopes to reduce its annual electricity bills by $170,000
    New York City's Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers is saving power and money by replacing its desktop computers with thin clients running virtualized operating systems.

  • How a virtualized server saved one small business 22 January, 2010 08:36:00

    Moving an aging Windows 2000 server to a virtual machine kept the company running while turbocharging the data center
    Even tech companies need an IT overhaul from time to time. Case in point: Last year, a Canadian software developer (who preferred to remain nameless for the purposes of this story) called my team at Microtek to give its server room a badly needed upgrade.

  • Analysis: Would you like a data center with that server? 20 January, 2010 08:03:00

    Unified compute platforms become the focus for integrators and vendors in 2010
    Faced with the continued commoditization of servers, IT vendors this year will try to differentiate their offerings by moving toward more highly integrated, unified compute platforms.

  • Why Benchmarking Cloud vs. Current IT Costs is So Hard 03 December, 2009 04:21:00

    Offhand dismissal of cloud computing providers as more expensive will be a thing of the past
    A couple of weeks ago I was asked to moderate an HP-sponsored meeting on the subject of virtualization. Predictably, most of the discussion (attended by press and vendors including Citrix, Microsoft, Red Hat, and VMware) focused on cloud computing. It was a pretty lively session, but what I want to address here is an HP product portfolio called "IT Financial Management" that was discussed, along with its implications for cloud computing. As you might guess, the product focuses on financial analysis of IT operations, which is extremely relevant to the adoption of cloud computing.
Interviews

  • Global outsourcing: IT service providers will reach for the cloud in 2010 06 January, 2010 07:50:00

    TPI's head of global outsourcing advisory talks about market trends and why cloud computing will dominate the outsourcing space this year
    Despite the economic recession that started in 2008, many IT service providers didn't see the expected boon to business in 2009. Some outsourcers struggled to a degree alongside the rest of the high-tech industry, but IT services experts say they started to see a return to growth toward the end of 2009. That means 2010 could find many outsourcing providers taking advantage of hot technology trends such as cloud computing to sell their services into smaller IT shops. Mike Slavin, partner and practice leader for Global IT Advisory Services at outsourcing industry advisory and consulting firm TPI, shares his take on the coming year and the outsourcing industry with Network World Senior Editor Denise Dubie.

  • Being green for love and profit 27 October, 2009 16:37:00

    Green Project - Datacom
    Once upon a time, the idea of using expensive, environmentally-friendly IT was expected to flop in the harsh world of business. But fast-forward to 2009 and green technology has leapt off the drawing boards into the realm of profitability.

  • Dean of Juniper’s datacentres 03 December, 2008 15:06:00

    Juniper Networks datacentre solutions director, Bobby Guhasarkar, spoke with ARN about where the datacentre is headed and the way market conditions affect strategy.
    Juniper Networks datacentre solutions director, Bobby Guhasarkar, spoke with ARN about where the datacentre is headed and the way market conditions affect strategy.

  • IBM: Leading the sustainability push 09 December, 2008 08:00:00

    Green Vendor IBM
    Big companies carry big responsibilities in leading the green push in IT. And that responsibility is something IBM takes very seriously.

  • Asus: Processing less energy 09 December, 2008 08:00:00

    Green Product Asus
    The IT industry is responsible for a great number of products that contribute to the global greenhouse gas emissions problem. In response, many vendors are now looking at re-architecting their goods and striving to find ways to improve energy efficiency and social responsibility while retaining quality.
Opinions

  • Energy-efficient Ethernet: A greener choice for 2010 04 March, 2010 03:56:00

    Data center managers and equipment vendors looking for greener alternatives will begin to benefit this year from a major initiative aimed at reducing the power consumed by Ethernet equipment. IEEE 802.3az, or the Energy-Efficient Ethernet (EEE) standard, will implement low-power idle (LPI) modes for the full range of Ethernet BASE-T transceivers (100Mb, 1GbE and 10GbE) and the backplane physical layer standards (1GbE, 4-lane 1GbE and 10GbE).

  • Data Centers Want an MPG Rating for Energy Efficiency 15 April, 2009 09:26:00

    Car buyers can easily compare two vehicles using the miles-per-gallon rating stuck to the window. Enterprise IT groups looking to improve the energy efficiency of their data centers aren't so lucky -- yet.
    These days, with the shock of US$150-per-barrel oil only a year old, consumers in the market for a car will likely pay much more attention to a pair of numbers: The vehicle's two miles-per-gallon ratings.

  • Four things to watch post-CES 16 January, 2009 08:59:00

    Consumer trends worth watching
    As the dust settles from the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show, here are four trends worth looking at based on some products that were announced at the show. On my radar screen for the year:

  • Getting a grip on ICT spending 22 October, 2008 15:23:00

    Gershon’s findings could give this industry a shake-up
    After months of speculation, the Gershon review into the Federal Government’s ICT procurement strategy hit the streets last week.

  • Change is coming 23 April, 2008 09:43:00

    Green channel editorial
    In putting together this special ARN Green Channel guide, our journalists spoke to a broad cross-section of the local IT community about a number of different matters relating to technology and the environment.
Reviews

  • 4 all-in-one PCs sip energy, save money 16 December, 2009 03:29:00

    All-in-one desktop PCs have long been touted as space-saving wonders, squeezing an entire computer into a frame that's only slightly bigger than the monitor itself.
    All-in-one desktop PCs have long been touted as space-saving wonders, squeezing an entire computer into a frame that's only slightly bigger than the monitor itself. They've also represented some of the computer industry's best bargains, typically selling for about one-third less than a standard desktop PC with a separate monitor. But did you know they can cut your electricity bill significantly compared with a traditional desktop system?

  • Product News: The latest products from the green channel 23 April, 2008 10:05:00

    ARN reviews the latest products
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