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Top 10 Tips for Server and Storage Virtualisation
Blog Server and Storage virtualisation often coincides with consolidation projects to reduce infrastructure and IT management costs. Reduce the number of servers, storage arrays and other system devices It enables you to drastically reduce the number of...
[July 27, 2009, 9:17]
Switch consolidation
Blog To try to reduce the next bill, reduce the heat output of the cabinet and speed up the network I decided to combine 5 switches into one. These switches used a combined 51 watts, and are on continuously, although lately I’ve switched the 4 port...
[June 19, 2008, 9:20]
HP and energy claims raise questions
Blog It says it plans to reduce energy use in its volume desktops and PCs by 25 percent by the year 2010. By 2010, HP plans to reduce the energy consumption of volume desktop and notebook PC families by 25 percent, relative to 2005.
[January 10, 2008, 16:15]
Asus and Microsoft Smacking Netbook Linux? And You're Surprised?
Blog A few people have recently sent me links to articles, such as this one, here on ZDNet UK, which report that Asus and Microsoft are joining forces to reduce the demand for Linux in the netbook market. So, Asus did something clever: they reached for...
[June 1, 2009, 8:53]
Helping SMEs Halve Soaring Energy Bills
Blog Powerwise is a natty power saving solution which manages PC usage and reduces carbon emissions, helping your business to reduce its energy costs. The Carbon Trust campaign’s target is to help save the UK economy £1 billion over the next three years...
[July 17, 2009, 20:03]
Tweaking my Karmic Koala
Blog Third attempt because I keep messing up the system fonts whilst trying to remove extraneous fonts from /usr/share/fonts, as I want to reduce the clutter on the font menus. The other tweak is to reduce the visual effects enabled by default in Karmic...
[November 9, 2009, 11:03]
A case of a little less conversation?
Blog However, according to IT Week: "The vast majority of IT chiefs regard improving energy efficiency as an increasingly important priority but relatively few have taken practical steps to reduce their energy footprint.
[November 21, 2006, 16:28]
Information Interoperability
Blog To reduce the lack of knowledge we need informations available and interoperable over a medium. Also in the scientific and technical realm there is a need to reduce the imperfect knowledge about what has been discovered.
[October 14, 2008, 15:27]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog What I think about that is mostly unprintable: put up the results of your company's last energy audit, together with the resultant moves to increase efficiency and reduce waste, and I'll be impressed.
[October 20, 2006, 19:20]
Turning the Scrooge
Blog Looking to reduce unnecessary or waste costs is always fashionable and will look even better right now. Imagine a different scenario, where you work actively with your best suppliers to reduce costs, whilst ensuring they retain sufficient profit to...
[December 14, 2009, 15:53]
Dell trundles into deduping
Blog Data deduping is among the storage industry's latest wheezes to reduce that volume of data -- Dell infrastructure consultant Paul Kaeley reckons you can reduce the volume of data to be backed up by up to 20:1.
[June 9, 2009, 14:32]
Wednesday: Microsoft changes its spots
Blog Notwithstanding its rather ambivalent attitude to the problem before -- it campaigned to reduce the fines payable under proposed legislation, because it said that legitimate marketing emails could be deliberately misconstrued -- it's going for...
[June 20, 2003, 17:11]
Dual-Boot Ubuntu and Windows XP Professional
Blog I learned the hard way that this was not a good idea; it tries to reduce the Windows partition to exactly the size of the used space, and this seems to be too tight. I didn't want to repeat the entire installation (although it goes so quickly that...
[June 13, 2008, 10:30]
Definition of irony? A teleconference conference
Blog This was in the days before the marketing drones had latched onto the environmental angle as way to flog just about anything going - including video conferencing -- so the idea of churning out a couple of tonnes of carbon to go and see a system...
[November 26, 2007, 14:15]
Convincing the World, One Computer and One User at a Time
Blog I booted the Ubuntu Jaunty LiveCD, and used the Partitlon Editor on that to reduce the size of the Windows partition. By the way, I looked first to see if the Windows disk manager would reduce the partition for me, and the option wasn't even there.
[September 1, 2009, 11:00]
Ballmer's email to employees about layoffs
Blog Our response to this environment must combine a commitment to long-term investments in innovation with prompt action to reduce our costs. We'll also reduce costs by eliminating merit increases for FY10 that would have taken effect in September of...
[January 23, 2009, 13:52]
Is it up to us - or should operators recommend the best tariffs?
Blog err.no, why would an operator actively seek to reduce a customer's bill and hence reduce their value to the network? I recently noticed that the mobile phone portion of my broadband, tv + fixed line bill was steadily creeping up from the £20-£30 I...
[January 21, 2009, 14:46]
Internet The Most Important Tool For Small Business Survival
Blog A considerable 75% of companies are looking to use the Internet to enable remote working, 33% are considering using VoIP to reduce telephone bills and over half (52%) are looking to use video conferencing to reduce business travel.
[July 17, 2009, 20:03]
Green IT solutions
Blog Of course, their server solutions could similarly reduce overheads, bringing the overall overheads of a company down markedly. HP are touting a drive to reduce desktop PC power consumption by 25% on or before 2010.
[September 19, 2008, 9:30]
The Future is Digital Print
Blog Furthermore, in 2003, the DMA signed an agreement with the department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affrairs(DEFRA) part of which committed the direct mail industry, through the DMA, to reduce the amount of direct mail industry waste that...
[January 30, 2009, 11:03]
