Emailing "Monday News Roundup"
Monday News Roundup
Happy Labor Day everyone! It may be a holiday in the U.S., but the greentech world continues to turn. Here's the latest highlights:
• VMWare Vice President Raghu Raghuram
discusses the future of virtualization and Green IT.
• Reducing bank duplication of data can dramatically
improve costs and energy efficiency.
• Qualcomm recently
selected Verari's 2009 Green IT Award-winning FOREST containerized data center for an expansion.
• BusinessWeek sees a
recovery in tech hiring in 2010, including modest impacts on Green IT.
• Chilean IT service provider
Solint expects to have 450-500 corporate customers when it launches a new green data center featuring virtualization.
• The Green Grid and NYSE Euronext will
host an industry forum and discussion on the economic impact of data center efficiency on October 2 in New York.
• IBM and Aberdreen Group have
launched a new online tool designed for organizations seeking to improve their Green IT capabilities, performance, and ROI.
• VYCON Energy's green-tech UPS has
won an award from Consulting-Specifying Engineer Magazine.
• IBM and Metropolitan Community College of Omaha
announced a collaboration to offer a first-of-its-kind green data center management degree.
• PSA Peugeot Citroen has
selected 3Com's H3C enterprise networking solution to provide green IT capability to the auto maker.
• Fujitsu has
added 0-Watt PCs to its proGREEN selection that do not use any electricity while in hibernation, and yet remain administrable.
• The state of Michigan
plans to use some stimulus funds to create a massive green data center designed to provide cloud computing to virtually all Michigan state services and agencies.