Archive for February, 2009

Worlds Largest Desktop Virtualization Deployment - 356,800 Green PC workstations (CanadaIT.com)

Userful and ThinNetworks today announce that they have been selected to supply 356,800 virtualized desktops to schools in all of Brazil’s 5,560 municipalities.

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Microsoft’s ‘green dashboard’ manages energy costs and consequences (BetaNews)

Businesses are undergoing a ‘massive paradigm shift’ to green computing, said a Microsoft exec whose new tool offers to help.

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EurActiv.com - Promoting ‘green IT’ | EU - European Information on InfoSociety (EUActiv)

“It is up to corporate and government strategists to exploit the potential of ‘green IT’,” argues Stefan Heng, a researcher at Deutsche Bank, in a February paper.

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Companies to Showcase Green Technologies at FOSE 2009 (Centre Daily Times)

FOSE 2009, the most comprehensive event for government information technology (IT) professionals, today announced that it will have nearly 40 green products and solutions on display at this year’s event, reflecting the government’s shift in priorities to environmentally safe solutions that help to meet agency requirements. Scheduled for March 10-12, 2009, at the Walter E. Washington Convention …

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Companies to Showcase Green Technologies at FOSE 2009 (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

FALLS CHURCH, Va.—-FOSE 2009, the most comprehensive event for government information technology professionals, today announced that it will have nearly 40 green products and solutions on display at this year’s event, reflecting the government’s shift in priorities to environmentally safe solutions that help to meet agency requirements.

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