Sun Microsystems says its Solaris 9 operating system can lower the total cost of ownership (TCO) of large server networks. Customers with multi-vendor software stacks or with recent upgrades to Solaris 8 (some already with back-ported Flash and...
He said organisations should compare the costs and savings of a move to Linux with the cost and savings to upgrade to a newer version of Windows as the total cost of ownership will vary depending on which version of Windows is being considered...
Research from several sources estimates that our consumption of paper in the UK is still rising by about five per cent per year, and that most of the costs of paper, printing, storage and disposal go unnoticed.
The main reasons for the scale of current emissions are a lack of floor space, a failure to house high-density servers and increased power consumption and heat generation, according to Kumar. We predict energy consumption of microprocessors alone...
If you want to cut the amount of power your IT systems use, you first need to know current consumption. So there's a lot of adaptation that's taking place to help an organisation address the basic question of what the energy consumption is.
That just leaves the problem of calculating power consumption, as Stewart Baines reports. For example, outsourcing consultancy Atos Origin built a power consumption and carbon production model for a representative data centre, explains chief...