People, Work
Sustainable IT Holds Opportunities For The UK
IT managers come across all of this - and all Hopper's four issues - in a smaller form within their company, we suggest, and Hopper agrees. As well as making business IT more efficient, staff can also embed IT into the whole company to make it more efficient, they can use technology to model the company's activity, and - eventually - change the way people work within it. [...] People will never touch something again if you do it the wrong way. . [...] Digital alternatives to physical activities. We change the way we live our lives, so we do much more of it in the physical world, he says. Shopping, working and every other aspect of our lives, can be made more energy-efficient, using IT.Lifestyle changes often focus on the Western world, but he wants to see an impact in the developing world. [...]
Open Source Will Change Enterprises, Says BT Guru
Open source gives you a way to work with people at other organisations without a whole joint-venture paraphernalia, working on a thing of mutual interest. . [...] More importantly, he is evangelising open source - and this goes outside BT as well as inside. The walls of BT are so porous that all my work is directed equally with the outside world, he said. With 105,000 people, the easiest way to communicate with them is over the public Internet. [...] BT's engineering heritage means that only people who can show rather than tell have any authority, he said, which makes BT surprisingly open to new ways of working such as open source and Wikis - and open source ways of working could drive a new generation of collaboration outside BT, he said. [...]
Citrix: the Virtual Route to Sustainable IT
You can lower the total cost of ownership of your desktops by 50 percent over non-managed desktops, he said. You can give people the opportunity to work from home. . [...] Since then, Citrix has cut ten percent of its workforce after disappointing results, but commentators believe the Intel deal could help it in the longer term, by allowing users to safely put corporate apps on home PCs. [...]
HP: It’s Time For Users To Question Cisco’s Role
Some people think the only way to solve their problems is to go with one particular vendor, he said, then other vendors have to work round that vendor, making it hard for the users. The fault lies with both . [...]
Symbian Seeks To Win Developer Mindshare
To be perfectly honest, the first 6 months (since January 2009), was spent getting the basics done and we only started work in the summer (July 2009). In the last few months people have worked like crazy, many times 24 hours a day. [...] How long has this move to open source been in the works. [...]
Will BT’s Wind Farm Come To Grief?
As work styles become more flexible and our estate shrinks, people don't have dedicated offices any more, he told eWEEK Europe UK earlier this year. In BT's headquarters, less than one percent have their own dedicated office. The ability to work from home reduces the need for travel. [...] BT's 11,600 home-workers save the company €104 million a year in accommodation, and flexible working which makes it easier for women to return to work after having a family saves it another €7.4 million, said Tuppen. Teleconferencing saves it € [...]
Cloud Ushers In New Security Frontier
They're the market of people who are already using virtualisation and now they want to lower the management costs of it, he explained. An example that we work a lot on is that when a virtual machine is turned off it's not managed, which is different to physical servers because they're never turned off they're always managed. [...]
HP: It’s Time For Users To Question Cisco’s Role
A lot of developments in the industry are crazy because they have to work around what Cisco does, he said. A lot of people are coming up with crazy architectures, becuase they have to work around the gorilla. People are doing things because they are trying to work around the incumbent architecture. . [...] Buying Cisco equipment could actually delay innovations, he suggested. Because too much equity is going to too few people, customers are having to spend more than they need to. Companies can't spend on their own innovation, because they are spending too much on network vendors. . [...] Cisco's dominance in most markets is way out of whack, he said. People should be getting a better deal, they should be opening their RFPs [requests for proposals] to more vendors . The combination of HP and 3Com could be big enough to persuade users to do that, he said. [...]
Desktop Power Cuts Beat Server Savings
Desktop power management, on the other hand, will produce a fairly quick return on investment within six months, with relatively little disruption to people's work practices or IT as a whole. . [...] I've heard many people say IT should run facilities, he says, but no one is saying facilities people should be put in charge of IT. . [...] It's often cheaper for US utiltities to persuade people to use less power than to build a new power station. And I think you will see more of that over here. . [...]
Knowledge Is Power - And Power Management Needs Data
When people calculate power consumption of their server room, it's often based on the faceplate information from the equipment. I used to work at IBM, and I can tell you that we calculated the faceplate specifications by running the equipment at 100 percent utilisation, measuring it and putting in some sort of buffer. [...] You get spikes during the day, or during the year. November is busy in a retail environment, and during the day you get spikes in the morning when people come in and check their emails. You have to take all that into consideration when you design a data centre. [...] No, but it's still lower than 100 percent. It's north of 60-70 percent. If it's less utilised it is not doing writes to onboard storage and spinning drives, and other things that crank up power. It also varies between workload. [...]
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