Archive for January, 2009

Conserving through computing (St. Olaf College News)

In the last year St. Olaf College’s office of Information and Instructional Technologies (IIT) has reduced the number of servers on campus — and the power used for these systems — by 50 percent through a process called virtualization.

More: continued here

Jennifer Parrish, Go Green, Jan. 31, 2009: Can you clean and still be green? (Santa Cruz Sentinel)

JENNIFER PARRISH Go Green It’s really quite ironic. We clean our homes to keep them safe for ourselves, our children and our pets.

More: continued here

More Communities, Cost Cutting, and Clouds, Less Carbon: GXS Releases Top 10 B2B Market Predictions (ebizQ.net)

GXS, a provider of business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce solutions, released its predictions for the year ahead, forecasting a focus on economic issues and cloud computing. ebizQ received the following: GXS announced its Top 10 B2B e-commerce …

More: continued here

How IT is helping the NHS save the planet (Silicon.com)

IT will play a central role in the NHS’ efforts to slash its carbon footprint in the coming years. Technologies such as virtualisation and cloud computing will become increasingly important as green initiatives in the organisation ramp up, according to NHS director of infrastructure, Mark Ferrar.

More: continued here

TCG spec to be foundation of storage encryption (CNET)

Three new storage encryption standards were proposed by the Trusted Computing Group. Will they mean the end of software encryption?

More: continued here