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24 October 2011
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.
News: Oracle launches NoSQL database

After announcing the technology at its OpenWorld conference last month, Oracle has launched its much anticipated NoSQL database.
News: Cray to Build 20-Petaflop System

Cray was awarded a $97 million contract to build a supercomputer that could potentially deliver up to 20 petaflops of peak performance, or 20 quadrillion floating operations per second, to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
News: Obama Aims to Stop Federal Data Leaks

President Obama has issued an executive order that aims to reform rules for the sharing and securing of data by federal agencies.
News: Wi-Fi devices crowd 2.4GHz band; IT looks to 5GHz

Of the 470,000 Wi-Fi connections made on a recent day at Abilene Christian University, fully 94% used the 2.4GHz band, representing an extreme example of how today's surging number of Wi-Fi clients is crowding the band least able to accommodate them.
News: Equinix creates market for data center clients to trade services

Equinix has launched an online marketplace for its data center customers, to make it easier for them to buy and sell network, managed hosting and other services among themselves.
22 October 2011
News: Government IT strategy promises much wider supplier market

Intellect, the IT industry association, has welcomed the government’s promise in its updated IT strategy of involving more suppliers.
News: Open source jobs: What's hot, where to look, what to learn

What does the future hold for eager, talented software developers, and people with related essential skill sets? The overriding trend, as in all industries, is you're on your own, chum. But free/open source software (FOSS) offers considerably more richness of opportunity than anything else. Let's peer into the crystal ball and see what the future holds.
21 October 2011
News: Salesforce.com to 'unlock' SAP's core software for 'social enterprises'

Salesforce.com is rolling out a set of consulting and integration services aimed at SAP customers that want to build "social enterprises" with Salesforce.com's Force.com platform.
News: Zambia halts pre-export plan to block counterfeit Chinese phones

While several African countries are battling to block the entry of counterfeit mobile phones and other electronic products from China, Zambia has abandoned the implementation of a pre-export verification system that was aimed at blocking the products from entering Zambia.
News: CIO Role: Is IT Facing a Leadership Crisis?

David Reynolds wants to be a CIO, and the 35-year-old systems manager for the Rhode Island Blood Center may well be on his way.
News: Google readies Google+ for push into the enterprise

Google looks close to unleashing Google+ on the enterprise.
News: Uptime Institute kicks off server roundup contest

The Uptime Institute has launched its first Server Roundup Contest to encourage data center operators to retire obsolete servers and reduce their energy consumption.

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