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More Singapore retail malls go solar
News Revamped and new properties in Singapore are incorporating photovoltaic technology as part of "green" strategies for their retail operations.
Tags: Green IT, Infrastructure/architecture management, Photovoltaics, Carbon Emission, Asia, Spokesperson, Singapore, solar panel, agency, Infrastructure/architecture management
IT vendors offer good measures in bad times
News Technology companies are offering more financing options to help customers, especially smaller ones, tide over the rough economy, according to Asia-Pacific execs.
Tags: IT budgeting, Infrastructure/architecture management, Budgeting/cost control, Business, cost savings, Small And Medium Business, SonicWall, financing, leasing, Environment
Why own when you can lease?
Insight Vendors like HP and IBM say leasing assets from them instead of pure financing firms ensure customers have flexibility and the latest technology.
Tags: Hardware, Asset/resource/knowledge management
Google signs US$146M lease for NASA campus
News The deal, negotiated over the last year, builds on an agreement the search giant signed with NASA in September 2005 to collaborate on space and technology research.
Tags: Investments, Growth strategies and tools, NASA, Google Inc., Lease, Carnegie-Mellon University, workplace, partnership, Silicon Valley, R&D
Penguin unveils Linux-based HPC in the cloud
News Penguin Computing has begun allowing researchers, scientists and engineers to lease its high-performance computing capabilities through the cloud.
Tags: Cloud computing, Computing, Intel Xeon, Cloud computing, Amazon.com Inc., high-performance computing, University of Cambridge, high-performance, financial, Linux
Keeping the faith in Silicon Valley
News Spirits are high and ideas are flowing in the cubicles of one startup incubator, Plug and Play Tech Center.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Venture capital, PayPal, Start-up, Palo Alto, Real Estate, Recruiting, Investor, Facebook, recession
Thai telco pledges to launch 3G this year
News TOT Plc will spend US$83 million to upgrade its 2G network to 3G and roll the new service out by year end.
Tags: 3G (Third Generation), Thailand, Bangkok, 2G network, consortium, TOT Plc., 3G, chairman, network, brand
Using dnsmasq for DNS and DHCP services
Techguide Get an introduction to an open source solution called dnsmasq, which provides both DNS forwarding and DHCP services for a small network or home office.
Tags: Open source, Network administration/implementation, DHCP, BIND, static IP address, TFTP server, DHCP Server, MAC, Dnsmasq, Server
Is the economy changing how you manage server turnover?
Techguide Server pricing has plummeted in recent years, but hard evidence still shows sales have declined. To what extent has the current economic climate affected server turnover?
Tags: Servers, IT budgeting, Virtualization, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), International Data Corp., Sales, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Server, e-mail, software-as-a-service
US regulator questions cloud computing security
News U.S. federal and international regulators have suggested they may have to re-examine privacy and security standards to take into account cloud computing.
Tags: Data security, Security, Google Inc., European Union, Cloud Computing, FTC, Regulator, Marc Rotenberg, Washington, data protection
Short Take: SingTel to invest US$112m in satellite comms
News Singapore Telecommunications Ltd announced today that it will invest US$112 million to double its long-term satellite transponder capacity.
Delivering IT as a service
Insight City University's CIO Jerry Yu is gearing his team to deliver IT like a utility service, where the service is available to users at the flip of a switch.
Tags: IT Management
Weigh the benefits of leasing decisions to the enterprise and its units
Insight Most organizations finance some portion of IT hardware without becoming aware of all the economic implications and risks associated with technology financing. Here are aspects of contractual leasing that tech leaders should factor into these decisions.
IBM offers interest-free financing
News Computer giant IBM announced two interest-free financing packages for its hardware and software to Internet players in Asia Pacific, today.
Storage apps: Lease or buy?
Insight Conventional belief holds that leasing saves money in the long run. But in the case of storage-based software, organizations doing so could end up paying twice the cost of purchase, according to Meta Group's Rob Schafer.
Tags: Cost control, Business applications, Storage software
