Emailing "Monday News Roundup"
News Roundup
• Computerworld
believes that a highly connected city, with widely available wireless access, smart grids, and sustainable data centers are around the corner.
• HP
announces an expansion of its relationship with Canon to expand and integrate paper-intensive workflow with digital offerings.
• An international exhibition in
Mauritius later this month will feature a sea-water cooling system for data centers.
• IBM
announces several new or updated offerings for mid-size companies to help them streamline their IT processes, making them more energy efficient in the process.
• Adaptec
announces its first solution incorporating high-performance hybrid HDD and SDD arrays to lower energy consumption in data centers.
• GreenBytes Inc., a startup developer of optimized data storage appliances,
receives $8 million in financing from Battery Ventures.
• Citi
announces it's inclusion in the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index for the ninth consecutive year, driven in large part by its green data centers.
• KACE, the management appliance company, has
released a survey indicating that while 93 percent of IT professionals believe that desktop power management will reduce costs, 56 percent do not manage desktop power in any way.
• SunGard is
implemanting an environmental management solution from GreenBoard technology to help track its carbon footprint.
• Verdiem has been
named part of the Global Cleantech 100 Company.
• CEATAC Japan, taking place next month, will
feature Green IT as a central topic.
• The British government
saved over 7 million GBP last year by making its IT systems greener.
• Greenstone Carbon Management
announces the launch of Green IT, an addition to its Acco2unt carbon accounting suite.
• AT&T is the
greenest mobile phone operator in North America, with Sprint and Verizon rounding out the top 3.
• T-Systems and Intel are
opening DataCenter 2020, a project focused exclusively on the green efficiency of future data centers.
• Dell ProConsult Services is
using Novell's PlateSpin virtualization and workload management to utilize virtualization technology in customer data centers.
• Fujitsu's European lab arm
announces its Total CO2 and Value Analysis solution.