Archive for June, 2009

The work force: Lansing area in good position to be leader in green jobs (Lansing State Journal)

Last week, Capital Area Michigan Works released “Shades of Green,” a labor market study examining economically friendly “green” jobs in the region.

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Parliamentary tech boss backs call for £1bn IT fund (Silicon.com)

The leader of Parliament’s IT committee has backed a consortium calling for a £1bn fund to stimulate investment in green tech and shared services. MP Andrew Miller, chairman of the Parliamentary Information Technology Committee (Pitcom), supported calls for the government to establish the fund, which would be used to loan money to central and local government organisations.

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VMworld(R) 2009, the Premier Virtualization Event of the Year, Returns to San Francisco and Spotlights Business … (Marketwire)

Attendees to Learn How Virtualization Is Revolutionizing the Next Generation of Computing New Developer Day Focuses on Pushing the Boundaries of Innovation Using the VMware vSphere(TM) 4 Platform

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Top 5 Reasons for Building Governance Into the Cloud (E-Commerce Times)

Our topic this week centers on governance as a requirement and an enabler for cloud computing. We’re going to talk not just about IT governance, or service-oriented architecture governance. It’s really more about extended enterprise processes, resource consumption, and resource-allocation governance.

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Environmental Efficiency? Cool, but Will You Rock to It? (New York Times)

Brooklyn Bowl, which opens this week in Williamsburg, is an environmentally friendly rock club and bowling alley.

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