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The four key elements in effective systems management
Insight Learn how ignoring processes, data, tools, and organization can stop your systems management effort before it starts.
Questions dog Nokia-Siemens Networks
News The nine-month-old telecom equipment joint venture is losing money; Scandal-plagued Siemens may bail out of its half.
Tags: Mobile platforms/communications
Will anyone pay for the 'smart' power grid?
News Electric grids will have to undergo expensive changes to meet rising demand and address environmental concerns. Just don't tell that to utilities or regulators.
Tags: grid computing
Toshiba muscles into solar-energy business
News Company creates unit dedicated to building large-scale power plants using solar-photovoltaic panels.
Tags: Green IT, Notebooks and tablets, Consumer Technology, Sanyo Electric Co., Photovoltaics, Carbon Emission, Sharp Corp., rechargeable battery, natural gas, systems integration
US House of Representatives OKs climate bill
News The bill's cap on greenhouse gases, along with a renewable electricity mandate and Clean Energy Bank, is designed to promote clean energy technologies.
Tags: Green IT, Cap, Allowance, Carbon Emission, greenhouse gas, Geothermal Energy, Renewable Energy, Global Warming, pollution, power generation
Gartner predicts ray of light for solar tech
News The analyst house has predicted that the photovoltaic market will grow at a 17 percent compound annual growth rate between 2008 and 2013, reaching a US$34 billion revenue in 2013.
Tags: Green IT, Photovoltaics, Manufacturing, Semiconductor, Gartner Inc., Compound Annual Growth Rate, power generation, revenue, industry, analyst
IBM uses liquid metal to boost solar-cell efficiency
News The company's tech increases the power of the sun's rays by a factor of 10, using liquid metal to transfer the resulting heat from solar cells.
Tags: Green IT, Innovation, IBM Corp., Nanotechnology, Photovoltaics, Cell, Semiconductor, solar cell, researcher, power generation
Intel to host smart-grid standards confab
News The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers will hold its first smart-grid standards meeting bringing together people from the power, IT and communications industries in June.
Tags: Green IT, Intel Corp., Standards, Grid, IEEE Standard, electricity grid, network, industry, information technology, solar energy
Will green energy wilt from lack of funds?
News The financial specialists that convert tax credits into capital to build new windmills and solar farms have all but disappeared.
Tags: Green IT, Budgeting/cost control, Earning reports/forecasts, Renewable Energy, tax credit, tax equity, U.S. Senate, wind energy, Renewables Player, equity
Siemens commits RM3.4bil to M'sia's hi-tech industries
News Siemens AG has announced it will invest at least RM3.4 billion next year in the local hi-tech industries, further committing its resources and promoting the transfer of technology in Malaysia.
U.K. experts tip six technologies to watch
News The United Kingdom should focus on six key technologies over the next five years, according to an independent government advisory group.
Tags: Business models, Business Strategies & Functions
GE chief: All engines go for alternative energy
News GE chief Jeffrey Immelt sees energy prices staying high, fueling a surge in new tech and sound investments.
Tags: Corporate responsibility, Business plans, Regulations
Create a power management strategy
Techguide Give more thought to the preservation and conservation of power beyond buying uninterruptible power supplies for the server room.
Report: MSBlast not to blame for US blackout
News The final report task force report on the 2003 outage that darkened New York, Toronto and other areas concludes that computer and human errors, not the virus, are to blame.
Tags: Viruses and worms
FAQ: New U.S. Energy Act gets green light
News President Bush last week signed into law legislation that sets higher fuel efficiency standards and boosts production of domestic biofuels.
Tags: Green IT, Politics, Regulations
