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• 24 October 2011

• News: John Lewis offers Wi-Fi for in-store price comparison

  Britain’s biggest department store John Lewis is to offer customers free in-store Wi-Fi so they can compare its ticket prices with rivals, the employee-owned partnership has announced.

• News: Jaguar recalls 18,000 cars over cruise control software fault

  Jaguar has recalled nearly 18,000 X-type cars after it discovered a major software fault, which meant drivers might not be able to turn off cruise control.

• News: Career Watch: Combatting doublespeak

  Q&A: William Lutz

• News: Methodology: How we picked the 2011 Top Green-IT Organizations

  For the fourth year in a row, Computerworld set out to identify organizations that are implementing smart, efficient strategies to achieve "green IT."

• News: JM Family: Works to eliminate more than 1,400 physical servers

  The IT shop at JM Family Enterprises has taken the typical steps to make its data centers eco-friendly: It has consolidated systems, virtualized servers and set up hot and cold aisles to drive down energy consumption.

• News: SAP users open up more to the cloud

  Cloud acceptance among SAP users has seen a significant increase this year, a new survey of UK & Ireland SAP User Group members has revealed.

• News: NBC Universal: Retired or recycled 47 tons of hardware

  NBC Universal had no room to expand its West Coast data center, located on the Universal City lot in Los Angeles. So Dan Johnson, senior vice president of platform technology, and his team recycled it. The data center refurbishing project, which CIO Christopher Furst refers to as "converting a brownfield," virtualized 60% of the physical servers and shut down 2,000 physical machines.

• News: Kaiser Permanente: Slashes data center power by 7.2 million kilowatt-hours

  A tag-team effort by Kaiser Permanente's data center IT and facilities groups delivered a one-two punch to energy consumption in the company's three data centers this year, cutting an eye-popping 7.2 million kilowatt-hours of power from overall data center operations -- and over $770,000 from power budgets. "We are one of the few companies that have the data center facilities team as part of IT," says Steve Press, executive director of data center facilities services, who credits collaboration for the results.

• News: Allstate: Reduces nearly 3,000 servers or devices in 18 months

  Allstate Insurance has been pursuing energy-saving initiatives for several years, and it has seen a cumulative energy reduction of about 40% through more efficient data center operations and the use of virtualization, according to Anthony Abbattista, senior vice president of technology solutions.

• News: Prudential Financial: 1,000 servers moved into a virtual environment

  When Mary O'Malley became Prudential's environmental task force chairperson in 2007, she found that the company's IT department was already focused on being green.

• News: Baker Hughes: Wake-on-LAN technology has resulted in 40% energy savings

  Baker Hughes, a provider of oil and gas services, has made energy consumption a major factor in its decision-making processes.

• News: Citigroup: Desktop standardization cuts energy costs by $6 million per year

  New York-based financial services firm Citigroup began a strategic data center transformation in 2005, with the goal of reducing its data centers from 68 to 24 by the end of 2010. Citi not only met that goal, but exceeded it by cutting down to 22 data centers.

• News: KPMG: Aims to reduce its carbon footprint by 25% through environmental stewardship

  In the past 18 months, the IT group at KPMG has helped update and create new processes and workflows for the company's paper-, energy- and carbon-intensive systems.

• News: Raytheon: Boosting data center temperatures cuts energy use by 30%

  As the IT sustainability program lead at Raytheon, Brian Moore says he saw a chance to learn from the company's past successes to find ways to deliver even more results.

• News: Nixon Peabody: 300 physical servers were swapped for 30 VMware ESX servers

  Boston-based law firm Nixon Peabody has elevated its focus on sustainability to the highest corporate level. A chief sustainability officer and a Green Operations Steering Committee lead green initiatives throughout the organization, and IT spearheads and enables much of the work.

• News: Northrop Grumman: Virtualizing or retiring approximately 3,000 servers

  Northrop Grumman set an important environmental goal in 2010: to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by about 25% over the next five years. And

• News: Oracle buys RightNow for about US$1.5 billion

  Oracle is buying RightNow Technologies for about US$1.5 billion in order to boost its recently announced Public Cloud with customer-service software, the companies announced Monday. The deal is expected to close late this year or in early 2012.

• News: Test Aims to Disprove Data Center Dogma

  In an experiment that began in January, decommissioned Trinity Health servers, networking gear and storage systems have been running outdoors in a simple shed without failure. Takeaway: IT equipment appears to be a lot tougher than conventional wisdom says. Insider (registration required)

• News: 10 Twitter Bot Services to Simplify Your Life

  You may think that Twitter is just good for following celebrities and swapping tweets with friends. But the social network is capable of a lot more. Specialized services have tweaked it to turn ordinary Twitter accounts into robots that can carry out helpful tasks.

• News: Oracle buys RightNow for roughly US$1.5 billion

  Oracle is buying RightNow Technologies for about US$1.5 billion in order to boost its recently announced Public Cloud with customer-service software, the companies announced Monday. The deal is expected to close late this year or in early 2012.

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