The 'green' hype seems so last year. Today's poor market conditions have refocused business minds on survival, rather than ensuring organisations have a solid environmental plan. Despite this, Quocirca expects to see a lot more green messaging in the coming months. ...
30/03/2009 | Green IT isn't dead yet....pdf | VIEW
Thin client computing has been around for many years - predating the PC, if you include standard green screen terminals. However, the real push with thin client devices was during the late 1990s, when the likes of NCD, Wyse and IGEL pushed their devices as being the antidote to the high price, low stability and variable management costs of the standard PC. ...
02/09/2008 | Thin client computing smartens up.pdf | VIEW
On the face of it, datacentre consolidation and rationalisation may not sound like a prime hunting ground for new business. After all, the whole reason for carrying out the process is to discover under-used hardware assets and either squeeze more out of them, or get rid of them entirely. ...
31/07/2008 | Opportunities to minimise.pdf | VIEW
Recent Quocirca research shows that few data centre managers know how much power their data centres are using - which makes it difficult for them to come up with a well-constructed plan to optimise power consumption and enhance their "green" credentials. Even those who have access to the power bill do not seem to have any granular breakdown of how that power is being used. With data centres representing the greatest energy spend for most large organisations, such a lack of visibility should not be allowed to continue. ...
20/07/2008 | Measuring the Data Centre's Green Power.pdf | VIEW
There continues to be much coverage in the press about the impact IT is having on the environment through increasing power consumption. As well as berating IT departments for the poor running of data centres and deploying devices inefficiently in the field there has also been more positive talk about the valuable role IT can play in reducing carbon emissions elsewhere, especially in transportation. This is a pressing issue anyway with the fuel price crisis. ...
28/06/2008 | Cisco eats its own dog foot - and it tastes OK.pdf | VIEW
The general public is becoming increasingly cynical about the environment claims of businesses and with much bad press around data centres, information technology (IT) is in the front line. But data centres are actually the easiest bit of IT to control and consolidating infrastructure into them can help reduce the overall energy usage of IT and, if used well, IT itself can help businesses reduce their overall carbon footprint. ...
05/09/2007 | Quocirca_-_IT_and_the_environment_-_Sept_2007.pdf | VIEW
I have recently returned from a trip to India, where I listened to a presentation by Dr. Ajay Mathur, Director General of the Bureau of Energy Efficiency in the Indian government. There had been a lot of coverage in the Indian press about how the US had been pointing fingers at India, stating that until India sorted itself out on energy usage, it was pointless the US doing anything. ...
31/05/2008 | Green India - Is This Really an Oxymoron.pdf | VIEW
Social networking, in whatever form it finally decides to adopt, is here to stay. Whether you believe in the blog as a means for an individual to publish their undiluted thoughts on a subject or see the blog morphing to becoming something that is more formally reviewed and published, the idea has stuck with us. The idea of a Wiki has also stuck with us - not as another attempt to top Wikipedia, but as a means of bringing together thoughts from a disparate group of people in a meaningful way. Instant messaging has been around for a while now and is the preferred means of communication for many younger workers in companies. VoIP has taken up a noticeable degree of many organisations' data bandwidth, both at the LAN and WAN levels. Then, we have the external networking sites - the likes of LinkedIn and Plaxo, being replaced in the individual's favorites by FaceBook and MySpace, which in turn address new entrants on a daily basis. ...
03/04/2008 | Social Democracy With a Guiding Hand.pdf | VIEW
According to some, the use of open source software in global education is the key to many problems because it removes the issue of cost. ...
08/02/2008 | To Lead, not to Teach.pdf | VIEW
The indications are that 2008 is going to be a tough year for many on the financial front. ...
08/01/2008 | Prioritise to beat the Recession.pdf | VIEW
