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IT essential for businesses' green success
Insight perspective IT is becoming ever more closely linked with organizations' environmental impact. An analyst offers energy-saving tips for IT managers.
Tags: Green IT, IT Governance, Accommodation, Storage, Hardware, IT administration, data center, program director, user behavior, IT Governance
Games pay off for tertiary students
News Over half of students in Singapore-Massachusetts Institute of Technology program get jobs in the sector, while two games go commercial.
Tags: Games, Product development and design, Software engineering/development, Certification, Microsoft Xbox Live, Singapore, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, R&D, strategy, computer game
S'pore govt agencies hop onboard SOEasy
News Sixty-two public sector agencies in Singapore have begun the transition to a common ICT platform; four have initiated rollout of centralized basic services.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Infrastructure/architecture management, Government, Security, Singapore, Microsoft Windows 7, Environment, public sector, Microsoft Windows, health care
IBM data center gets deep energy retrofit
News Big Blue's "green innovation" data center in the United States uses technologies such as temperature sensors, and building designs aimed at cutting energy consumption.
Tags: Cloud computing, Data centers, Data Management, Green IT, IBM Corp., Storage, Business Process, Cloud computing, Server, server rack
Fatal flaws found in US terrorism database
News Congressional investigation reveals one of the country's most important terrorism databases is suffering from mismanagement and technical flaws.
Tags: Security, Database management, Google Inc., Database, Search Engine, Flaw, program manager, action item, Herndon, U.S.
Microsoft: How we'll take on VMware
News Company believes it has the tools and the right price point to beat VMware in battle for virtualization market.
Tags: Virtualization, Microsoft Corp., VMware Inc., Hypervisor, Environment, software, industry, strategy, analyst, desktop
Samsung's Q3 earnings may herald rosy days ahead
News Samsung's forecast of a record third-quarter profit attests to success of the Korean electronics maker's aggressive growth strategy during the economic slump.
Tags: Components, Consumer Technology, Peripherals, Hyundai, LCD Panel, Quarter, Profit Guidance, Hyundai Securities, TV, Memory Chip
Hello mainframe? iPhone calling
News Unisys updates servers with ePortal engine that will allow mobile workers to access business data and benefit from scalability and security of mainframes.
Tags: Servers, Mainframe, Mobile, Chip, operating system, Worker, Apple iPod, scalability, Apple iPhone, Unisys Corp.
HP delivers Istanbul-powered servers
News The seven ProLiants built on AMD's new six-core Opteron chip come with heat- and power-management functions designed to drive down energy consumption.
Tags: Servers, Data centers, Processors, Hardware, Cray Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., HP Compaq ProLiant, Power supplies, surge suppression, Server
HDS: 'Clean up' before hitting cloud
News update Firms moving storage onto cloud must first get their "house in order", or existing problems will be transferred into new business model, urges CTO Hu Yoshida.
Tags: Storage, Investments, Hitachi Ltd., Google Inc., International Data Corp., Singapore, Storage, De-duplication, provisioning, Amazon.com Inc.
Why are IT systems so unreliable?
Insight perspective IT systems are notorious for failing just when they're needed most. Can organizations do anything to fix this?
Tags: Virtualization, Security Management, Business security, Application Availability, Service Availability, application virtualization, Tony Lock, performance, Hardware, software
M'sia on cusp of 'true' high-speed broadband
News Content players welcome boost to services market, but Net service providers express concerns over lack of details regarding wholesale access pricing and service terms.
Tags: Next-generation technology/networks, Networking technology, Competitive advantage, CommunicAsia 2009, broadband service, service provider, Internet service, FTTH, Competitive advantage, Lee Min Keong
Five ways to greener storage
News Companies can make their data centers more energy-efficient or lower power consumption, and it doesn't have to cost an arm or leg, say industry watchers in Asia.
Tags: Storage management, Data centers, Storage software, Data Management, Hardware, Hitachi Ltd., Hewlett-Packard Co., Green IT, Virtualization, Asia-Pacific
US PC market shows resilience amid continuing decline
News Shipments worldwide were down for the first quarter of 2009, but not as much as initially feared.
Tags: Sales, Personal Computers, Apple Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., Acer Inc., PC Company, International Data Corp., U.S., Dell Computer Corp., PC
The cloud: From monolith to federation
News Organizations around the world are coming to terms with cloud computing, but what can we expect from this technology over the coming year?
Tags: Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Virtualization, Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp., Cloud, Electronic Data Systems Corp., Berlin, Gartner Inc., Service, software
