The system will bill for all the costs incurred by DSL providers who house their equipment in BT's exchanges, including power consumption and the costs of space. Systems integrator ICL has won the contract to implement a Geneva billing system for...
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...
But while Version 6 offers some numerical benefits like 2128 more addresses and 220 different classes of service, it could easily push IT operational and capital expenditures to breaking point. There is necessarily a shortage of addresses in some...
However, he said a greater financial imperative - gained by understanding total cost of ownership issues, including energy consumption - is likely to get IT departments thinking about energy savings differently.
Let's say I have a floor of office space, with 15 individual PCs and some personal printers, some networking devices and so on, and I want to see the energy usage across all that floor plan. If you want to cut the amount of power your IT systems...
People have got to accept there is a long lead time required to make provision for power consumption. Accenture claims the lack of growth in new data centres, compared to demand in London means the capital only has about five per cent capacity for...