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I've been reading an article on O'Reilly about green data centers. (Hat tip: Slashdot .) Data centres are consuming more and more power and much of it is being wasted. The interviewee in the article outlines three primary causes of waste: Equipment
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Counting the ecological cost of conventional PCs and the benefits of Remote Client Solutions. Addressing climate change has become a business-critical issue. In addition to aggressive government targets, companies face growing expectations from consumers
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We've just produced the first issue of a new magazine about HP Remote Client Solutions - thin clients, blade PCs, virtualisation etc. It looks at how businesses can use it to reduce their IT running costs. We have experts from HP and Microsoft plus
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Just 48 percent of UK CIOs sit on the board, according to research sponsored by Progress Software. The survey polled 500 senior managers and CIOs across Europe and found that the UK is lagging behind other countries. For example, in France, the figure
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The Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform recently published its bi-annual Infromation Security Breaches survey (HP is a contributor). There is some good news. 84% [of companies surveyed] are heavily dependent on their IT systems 81
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Besides being an excellent case study for HP's latest Blade PCs, talking to Eric Ubels, CIO Deloitte Netherlands, was a good chance to practice my Dutch. You can read the full case study (PDF). I used parts of it and comments by Eric Ubels to produce
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I wanted to let you know that HP blogs will be migrating to a new platform over the next week. As of tomorrow, May 23, I won't be posting to my blog and won't be able to receive any comments submitted. Please hold your comments until June 1 when our new
Two recent announcements show that the notebook market is changing and that ambitious companies can use portable PCs in interesting new ways. The first is the HP Compaq 6720t Mobile Thin Client . Launched in January this year, it has no moving parts or
Instead of buying a piece of software and then installing it on your company’s computers, Software as Service ( Wikipedia definition ) vendors rent their application, typically on a per-user basis, and you access it over the internet. In some ways, it
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A recent Gartner EXP worldwide survey of 1,500 CIOs argues that they must replace generic technology with distinctive solutions in order to support business objectives. Eighty-five percent of chief information officers (CIOs) see significant change coming
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61 percent of IT departments are not accountable for their energy use. Should they be? The Register today reported this figure from an interesting survey by Freeform Dynamics. In response to the question "is the amount you spend on electricity to run
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George Bernard Shaw once said that "England and America are two countries divided by a common language". The same is sometimes true of IT managers and their non-technical colleagues. Here are ten things you need to know about the world of IT. You may
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If you think looking after one PC is hard, try managing thousands. Easily-supported laptops are good for IT, good for users and good for the business. We help you learn to love your IT department (or at least understand it better). You’re stuck, ‘lost
1. Dropped while carrying 2. Object dropped on unit 3. Fall off desk or surface while in use 4. Packed too tightly in case 5. Extreme heat or cold exposure 6. Misused or abused 7. Normal wear and tear 8. Mishandled in travel 9. Improper insertion of PC
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As business goes mobile, reliability is more important than ever Tom Peters, the management guru, knows more about laptop reliability that most people. He takes 70-100 trips a year to give speeches. Like many business people, he uses his laptop to run
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