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24 October 2011
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.
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.

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