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• Ericsson adds wind turbine to green base station
  But are operators blown away?
• Tandberg launches new telepresence package
  No ditching of existing equipment.
• Google touts 'most efficient' datacentres
  Secretive search giant finally opens up.
• IT vendors face the music on green claims
  Charity tries to cut through the hype.
• HSBC hits green target with new datacentre
  Bank aims to be carbon neutral,
• IT underestimating coming power shortage
  Brown-outs predicted for 2012.
• Cisco simplifies teleworking with Virtual Office launch
  Transparent system hides VPN complexity.
• Adaptec colours its RAID boards green
  Power savings á la MAID?

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• Data centre managers explore energy efficiency
  The rise in electricity costs, coupled with the increasing power consumption of modern processors, are leading to crippling headaches for data centre managers. A conference last week explored several ways in which data centres could save money.
• The green metrics conundrum
  Individual vendors create their own meaning of greenness in measuring how well their equipment stacks up, says one analyst.
• Wireless power-saving - more trouble than it's worth?
  Wi-Fi's Power Save Mode sounds like a good way to make laptop batteries last longer. It turns out the savings aren't worth the performance hit.

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• Eight ways to green your existing datacentre
  Burton Group analyst goes through some quick tips on how enterprises can use their datacentres more effectively.
• Box reduction
  Server virtualisation and a variety of storage technologies can help to significantly reduce the number of boxes in your datacentre. There is less scope in the networking area, apart from port consolidation. Any strategy needs to take a long-term view of information processing and storage growth, otherwise you'll arrive back at square one.
• The ideal datacentre: No low-hanging green fruit
  Cooling datacentres more effectively looks like the only non-rip-and-replace method to raise datacentre infrastructure power-efficiency.

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• The Capacity to Succeed: Demand and Capacity Management New
  

  This white paper explores the drivers for demand and capacity management; the benefits and ROI; and the challenges businesses face in making it work.
  

• Preparing for the Storm: Effective Data Backup and Recovery New
  

  This white paper was written for IT professionals looking to increase the strategic value of IT as they implement a cost-effective and appropriately sized backup and recovery platform that can support business growth.
  

• Delivering an Effective Backup and Recovery Service New
  

  Rapid data growth and the need for greater data availability place a demand on organisations to provide an effective backup and recovery service. Yet businesses have often been satisfied with just minimal provision. It is only when a disaster arrives that it becomes clear how inadequate this approach is. This white paper helps organisations make the right decisions about how best to prevent data loss and potentially catastrophic IT failure.

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• Earth Day: Who's the greenest of them all?
  Dell, VMware, HP, EMC, Cisco and IBM. Which of these really stuck through their green-commitments and how.
• EPEAT's progress
  EPEAT has stronger support from the US government and HP has just announced a raft of EPEAT-registered kits.
• Global Action Plan
  Global Action Plan is a charity, run as a small business, that wants to revolutionise IT use by business and make it much more energy-efficient. Can it do this?

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• Switch the Internet on please, love 
  
• ITU appoints Brit for climate change focus group 
  Recognition for BT
• IT increasingly apathetic about green 
  Refreshing outbreak of honesty?

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• Whatever happened to ZigBee?
  Low-power sensor networks aren't yet as big as he hoped, but ZigBee Alliance chief Bob Heile says the low-power standard will rock the competition and make the world greener.
• The BCS and the datacentre code of conduct
  Knowledgeable contributions from an organisation representative of many UK datacentre operators have been made to the EU-driven datacentre code of conduct working group.
• Accelerating carbon footprint cutting
  The CSCI wants to accelerate the IT world's response to climate change by generating demand for energy-efficient IT kit as well as getting manufacturers to build it. The US-focussed and public sector-focussed Energy Star and EPEAT are thought to be slower acting and both market sector and geographically limited in their influence.

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• Water-cooled servers gaining steam
  Using water to cool servers isn't a new idea, but it is gaining new converts at a time when fears of global warming and rising energy costs are making datacentre operators and server vendors search for ways to increase efficiency.
• A pair of green-IT users
  Austin Energy and WellPoint show how to grow your green credentials
• Polysius: Concrete results with NetApp's de-dupe software
  NetApp proves its de-dupe credentials with a 47 percent saving in data stored by a customer, and that too, on front line data.

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