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HP BladeSystem Gets an 'A+' by Reducing Energy Consumption by 25%

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Overview Fife Public School District, just south of Tacoma, Washington, consists of three small towns with one big heart. The School wanted to update aging technology infrastructure to better meet educational goals and to improve collaboration and communication between staff, students and parents, while saving money on energy costs & reducing carbon emissions. The School standardized an IT environment and build an innovative learning gateway platform on HP BladeSystem with ProLiant server blades and an HP StorageWorks MSA-based SAN, using Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003.

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Publisher	Hewlett-Packard (HP)	File Format	PDF
Date Published	November 2007
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Application Servers, Portals, Blades

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Citizants: Bringing IT In-House

Citizant enhances IT flexibility and scalability by creating a virtualized Dell infrastructure that will pay for itself in 18 months.

Publisher:
Dell EqualLogic

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application servers

Staying a step ahead of the hackers: the importance of identifying critical Web application vulnerabilities.

Security managers worldwide working for midsize or large organizations share a common goal: to better manage the risks associated with their business infrastructure. Web application security plays a significant role...

Publisher:
IBM

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application servers

Webcast: Smart Techniques for application security: whitebox + blackbox testing.

Whitebox & blackbox application security testing are two approaches for detecting vulnerabilities in Web-based and network applications. Both have strengths and weaknesses, but a combination of the two provides the...

Publisher:
IBM

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application servers

Business Productivity Online Suite - Highly Secure and Reliable Cloud Services

Learn about fully hosted productivity tools in the cloud with Microsoft® Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS). With real time communication and collaboration tools, including, instant messaging, email, video conferencing, shared...

Publisher:
Microsoft

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infrastructure management

Increase Reliability with IBM WebSphere File Transfer Edition (FTE)

"Does your organization still use FTP software? Did you know these links require 3 to 4 times more time and effort to build and maintain versus SOA-based Application Integration projects?...

Publisher:
IBM

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application servers

Being 'green': Practical, possible... and profitable?

Derbyshire County Council accounts for around 16 million copies and printouts per year and Ricoh will plant 1,600 saplings per year in an attempt to offset carbon emissions. As such engineers are increasingly focusing on energy saving measures such...

Quocirca's Straight Talking: Drop those bad habits

Energy costs might not be the direct responsibility of the IT department but with oil prices soaring, and governments obliging companies to cut down on carbon emissions, energy cost-saving is becoming a key corporate focus.

Essex school lessons paper trail with digital portal

According to Emerson Park School head of IT Ralph Reid, student buy-in to the project was accomplished by surveying students' reactions to the portal and by setting up a newsletter called Student Voice.

'Paper junkies' can't kick printing habit

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Is five per cent of your IT budget the green piece?

The report also found that some UK organisations are making major efforts to reduce their carbon emissions. Meanwhile, HSBC incorporates environmental criteria into its equipment procurement, to make sure it's buying energy-saving kit.

Channel:
IT Director
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virtualisation

Green IT: Thrifty CIOs should make it a priority

Set goals about reducing that energy consumption and resulting carbon emissions. Under the scheme, organisations which use more than roughly £500,000 of electricity per year (including hotel chains, large local authorities and supermarket chains...

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Green IT

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