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• Green not helpful word for setting environmental policies
  Spreads confusion, claims Carbon Disclosure Project.
• HP to offer data centre in shipping container
  Company finally gets its own 'Mini-Me' data centre.
• Greenwash fails to convince IT buyers
  Victim of excessive hype?
• US environment agency looks to rate servers
  But process taking longer than expected.
• New smart phone tool gives green options
  How much can you burn off on foot?
• IDC counts the costs of storage power and cooling
  And it is set to become even more extreme.
• Rackable Systems offers new servers
  More processing, less power
• All change ahead for data centres
  Network convergence, virtualisation and green technology will be drivers.

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• Data centre managers explore energy efficiency
  The rise in electricity costs, coupled with the increasing power consumption of modern processors, are leading to crippling headaches for data centre managers. A conference last week explored several ways in which data centres could save money.
• The green metrics conundrum
  Individual vendors create their own meaning of greenness in measuring how well their equipment stacks up, says one analyst.
• Wireless power-saving - more trouble than it's worth?
  Wi-Fi's Power Save Mode sounds like a good way to make laptop batteries last longer. It turns out the savings aren't worth the performance hit.

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• Eight ways to green your existing datacentre
  Burton Group analyst goes through some quick tips on how enterprises can use their datacentres more effectively.
• Box reduction
  Server virtualisation and a variety of storage technologies can help to significantly reduce the number of boxes in your datacentre. There is less scope in the networking area, apart from port consolidation. Any strategy needs to take a long-term view of information processing and storage growth, otherwise you'll arrive back at square one.
• The ideal datacentre: No low-hanging green fruit
  Cooling datacentres more effectively looks like the only non-rip-and-replace method to raise datacentre infrastructure power-efficiency.

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• Demand and Supply in IT
  

  How to break down the communications barrier between business and IT, so that they can work smoothly together to choose the right applications as well as implementing them in the right way.

• The Forrester Wave: Data Center Automation
  

  Discover why HP leads the pack in a very competitive DCA market. Essential reading from Forrester, for IT Infrastructure & Operations Professionals.

• Oracle Database 11g Application Development
  

  Explore Oracle Database 11g , a single integrated platform offering high performance and scalability for the most popular technologies used by application developers today.

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• Earth Day: Who's the greenest of them all?
  Dell, VMware, HP, EMC, Cisco and IBM. Which of these really stuck through their green-commitments and how.
• EPEAT's progress
  EPEAT has stronger support from the US government and HP has just announced a raft of EPEAT-registered kits.
• Global Action Plan
  Global Action Plan is a charity, run as a small business, that wants to revolutionise IT use by business and make it much more energy-efficient. Can it do this?

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• IT increasingly apathetic about green 
  Refreshing outbreak of honesty?
• Is the world ready for Green IT? 
  An idea whose time has not come.
• Famous VC calls for more green investment 
  Internet is small fry compared to energy.

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• Whatever happened to ZigBee?
  Low-power sensor networks aren't yet as big as he hoped, but ZigBee Alliance chief Bob Heile says the low-power standard will rock the competition and make the world greener.
• The BCS and the datacentre code of conduct
  Knowledgeable contributions from an organisation representative of many UK datacentre operators have been made to the EU-driven datacentre code of conduct working group.
• Accelerating carbon footprint cutting
  The CSCI wants to accelerate the IT world's response to climate change by generating demand for energy-efficient IT kit as well as getting manufacturers to build it. The US-focussed and public sector-focussed Energy Star and EPEAT are thought to be slower acting and both market sector and geographically limited in their influence.

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• Water-cooled servers gaining steam
  Using water to cool servers isn't a new idea, but it is gaining new converts at a time when fears of global warming and rising energy costs are making datacentre operators and server vendors search for ways to increase efficiency.
• A pair of green-IT users
  Austin Energy and WellPoint show how to grow your green credentials
• Polysius: Concrete results with NetApp's de-dupe software
  NetApp proves its de-dupe credentials with a 47 percent saving in data stored by a customer, and that too, on front line data.

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