Storage giant EMC is said to be in talks with the business software specialist BMC over a potential merger. Analysts claim if EMC was to buy BMC, it would enable the storage giant to become a serious player in the data centre and application...
Other innovative ways of making IT more environmentally friendly include ultra-thin, high-density server designs, hydrogen fuel-cells as alternative "green" power sources, virtualisation technologies that spread the use of computing resources to...
It's not often you can say BT displayed considerable foresight but, according to Steve O'Donnell, head of its entire global data centre estate, the BT board recognised the environmental challenges it would face and in 1996 set a 10-year goal of...
The alternative suggested by BMC's Bishop is to use existing asset management software to build a detailed database of the system and then cross-reference that with information about expected energy usage to build up a picture of energy consumption.
Global companies have understood for years that managing the complexities of running a global IT organisation is hard - without needing to become experts on real estate, infrastructure management and security at the same time.
Banking group Citi is on the verge of completing a major sustainable data centre project but has admitted the power requirements of its IT equipment are continuing to rise by 12.5 per cent per year. Green IT from A to ZClick on the links below to...