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Green IT Must Look Beyond Cost Cutting

Businesses are pushing ahead with efficiency projects, but they must not forget  Green IT jobs like carbon management, before regulations force them, says Gartner's Simon Mingay.

Hitachi Steps Up Green IT Efforts

Hitachi chief executive Takashi Kawamura said the vendor will focus on “green mobility,” smart grids and the global expansion of the company's green data centres

Unisys Beefs Up Server Virtualisation

Unisys is ramping up the virtualisation capabilities of its enterprise x86 servers by upgrading to Intel's Nehalem EP processors and VMware's latest version of its virtualisation platform

Lenovo Launches Hardware Password Manager

Lenovo is encouraging the end of passwords taped to PCs, with its Hardware Password Manager, a server solution that enables IT to remotely manage a fleet of fully encrypted hard drives

RSA Conference Offers Help To Jobless

In a nod to the economic climate, the conference offered laid-off security pros scholarships to attend the event in 2009, and there will be a special workshop for job seekers and employers.

Netbooks and Google Android Defy Downturn

Google's Android mobile operating system is likely to see increased adoption as hardware buyers tightening their purse strings consider netbooks and other types of mininotebooks in lieu of full-size laptops

Windows 7 May Have XP Downgrade Option

Reports claim users will still have the option of downgrading to Windows XP from Windows 7 after the latter is released, even though mainstream support for XP will have ended