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August 11, 2008

Monday, August 11, 2008 10:52 AM/EST

Hype Cycle, Hyped

Gartner's Hype Cycle report lists technologies and trends that are moving through Bunyanesque stages (e.g., "Trough of Disillusionment," "Slope of Enlightenment"). The idea is that we get all excited about new things, talk them up, find out that nothing...

Monday, August 11, 2008 9:06 AM/EST

Reading Forbes So You Don't Have To

You may not have time to wade through the meandering verbiage in this article about data-center costs by Kenneth G. Brill. That's why we're here. The gist: data center costs often are poorly understood and data center assets often...

August 5, 2008

Tuesday, August 05, 2008 12:07 PM/EST

Technology Constrains Mileage Plan

Economist Duncan Black, who blogs under the name Atrios, sharply dismisses the Washington Post's mention of a mileage tax to replace the gasoline tax. I'm not an economist, and I agree with some of Black's logic about both Big...

August 4, 2008

Monday, August 04, 2008 2:29 PM/EST

It's a Floor Wax and a Dessert Topping

It's two trends in one! IBM announces a new data center in North Carolina's Research Triangle, touting both its cloud cred and green sheen. I kid because I love. IBM's cloud strategy and its green initiative both bear watching,...

July 8, 2008

Tuesday, July 08, 2008 4:20 PM/EST

Momentum Builds for Green IT

Research from Cutter Consortium's Benchmark Review shows that momentum is growing for Green IT at firms that don't yet have Green policies in place, with European firms ahead of their US counterparts in terms of plans to reduce "environmental...

June 27, 2008

Friday, June 27, 2008 12:10 PM/EST

No longer a virtual product

Microsoft releases its Hyper-V virtualization platform. Our research shows that CIOs love virtualization. It saves money, and it's green technology, too. Ars Technica: "Microsoft believes that virtualization is as much as part of the server platform as Active Directory...

June 26, 2008

Thursday, June 26, 2008 10:52 AM/EST

Cash for trash

Since the dawn of Green IT, we've been all about doing well while doing good. Much of the emphasis to date has been on saving money by using less energy. It's a pretty straightforward equation. Less obvious have been...



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