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In a speech today, U.S. President Barack Obama pledged to treat the country's digital infrastructure as a strategic asset and announced the creation of the position of cyber-security coordinator
CIOs may be more keen to save money than save the planet, but after this year's Copenhagen Forum the pressure to go green will get more serious, says Michael Vizard
Despite action to improve its sustainability, the company says green house gas emissions are still rising
The Intel Core i7 processor will power a new laptop being offered by AVADirect. Expected benefits include triple-channel memory and DDR3 memory running up to 1333MHz.
Environmental responsibility is driving growing green IT spending, not cost savings, a survey says.
Server virtualisation promises to save space, costs and energy, but two UK local authorities have discovered there's more to achieving these benefits than the technology alone.
It's no good wringing our hands over eWaste. The answer is simple if we have the political will to outlaw all dumping of electronic waste, says Tony Roberts of Computer Aid International
Contracts are drafted to exclude any alternatives and hand the money over to Redmond, say local activists
Why wait for government cash for green projects when you get the technology right now and pay later, says IBM
Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz has suggested that she would sell Yahoo's search apparatus to Microsoft in exchange for a massive amount of cold, hard cash
The global server market saw revenue and shipment declines across all major segments during the first quarter as enterprises delayed system purchases in light of the crushing worldwide recession, according to IDC
... and it's not great news for Itanium either, as Intel announces a monster Nehalem multiprocessor chip
Atos Origin has made much of its commitment to provide sustainable IT for the Olympics - a contract it will now keep till 2016
Now that the first-tier specification for energy-efficient enterprise servers is completed, the US EPA is turning its focus to larger servers, blades and storage arrays
The open source movement wants to see government contracts open to proper competitive tendering. Let's see how that issue plays in the Euro elections, says Peter Judge
With the UK government about to impose mandatory carbon accounting, PwC has produced a reporting model which it says will do the business
Engineers will take smart grids across Scotland thanks to a government backed Energy Academy
While the £12.7 billion NHS upgrade scheme has yet to deliver, one NHS Trust has gone ahead with its own patient record system - and expects to save £3.2 million
IBM is placing increased emphasis on the emerging solid-state server, storage, and software sector of the data centre
A US government report predicted that as old satellites begin to fail over the next few years, GPS coverage could decline
Local government is stealing a march on central government in its use of virtualisation to harness cost savings and power efficiencies,
Stimulus packages to build high-speed broadband must not fall foul of state aid rules, warned European commissioner Neelie Kroes
If you think storage is cheap, you aren't doing your sums right. The big picture, with power, carbon, and legal costs, adds up to a new discipline, says Hitachi Data Systems' David Merrill - a storage economist
Google chief executive Eric Schmidt has said while his company is not interested in buying physical newspapers it could put its mark on online news sites
Google has high hopes that Chrome's unique features will make it a suitable competitor to Microsoft Internet Explorer and other browsers on the market
If you want government money, you'll have to show your IT training plan, says skills secretary John Denham
Fault tolerant virtualisation technologies can be hardware or software based but they don't necessarily offer the same level of protection for business-critical processes.
Google plans to expand the Google PowerMeter rollout later in 2009
Microsoft, along with Yahoo, is in fierce competition with Google for market share in the U.S. core search arena
Intel next week is expected to give details of its upcoming eight-core Nehalem EX processors, which will be aimed at high-end systems with four or more sockets