Cost, Organisations
UK Academics Launch Open Source PC Power Saver
Lisa Nelson, principle analyst from the University's Computing Services Department, who developed the system, said that idle PCs cost organisations money not only in terms of wasted electricity but also costs associated with the heat produced by the machines. [...] UK academics have developed an open source PC power management system which is already helping to save large organisations thousands of pounds in monthly electricity costs, researchers claim. [...] Much attention on power consumption has focused on the data centre, but PC power consumption in an organisation can also be significant, especially given steadily rising electricity prices, said Federica Troni, principal analyst at Gartner in a statement. IT organisations should recognise that the greatest savings come from employing power management features. . [...]
Companies Are Not Using IT Tools, Despite Recession
For many organisations, poorly managed and out of control information represents a huge potential source of bottom line savings in this tight economy &mdash. if only organisations would just take this cost saving seriously,' said John Mancini, president of AIIM, comments. [...] BT cites research from analyst Gartner which estimates that companies could save between 25 and 40 percent of the cost of an project by using hosted CRM applications. [...] In its annual State of the ECM [Enterprise Content Management] Industry report, the organisation claims that managinng electronic documents is still a challenge for 47 percent of companies. [...]
Zycko Offers Tool To Tame Unstructured Data
Value added distributor Zycko has launched an online analysis tool for organisations struggling with the massive growth of unstructured data (emails, documents, videos etc). The aim is to give them a better understanding of the most appropriate and cost effective storage options for their organisation. [...] Zycko said that after the analysis, organisations will be in a better position to establish which storage options are most appropriate and cost effective for them. These could include anything from deduplication to virtualisation, archiving or compression. [...] Even in some enterprise-sized organisations the tool found that many files had not been modified for six months, but they were still backing these files up every night. [...]
How to Reduce Network Expenses
This can result in annual cost savings while promoting a greener environment with a reduced carbon footprint for organisations. [...] Furthermore, with the introduction of high-speed 802.11n WLAN technology, users will experience even higher performance&mdash.with fast Ethernet speeds delivered almost anywhere. This allows organisations to more confidently deploy mission-critical applications and communications while installing cable plant only where it is cost-effective to do so. [...] The concept of the two-tier network architecture plays into an IT organisation's desire to simplify its infrastructure and reduce costs. A two-tier architecture decreases the total cost of network ownership, both in terms of capital and operating expenses. [...]
Data Centre Management Costs Continue To Grow
Chris Ingle, IDC Consulting associate vice president added that European organisations had moved on in their approach to managing their data centres, compared to when the research firm last conducted a similar survey in 2006. In particular, virtualisation and automation have brought ways to reduce cost and free up resources, he said. [...] Jon Gasparini, principal consultant at IT services company, Morse told eWEEK Europe that he was not surprised so few respondents had integrated data centre management frameworks. But it's definitely something that needs addressing, he said. By bringing together the different silos of management and automating their tasks through the technology stack organisations can reap massive cost savings. [...] In fact a quarter of organisations said they were still managing their servers and storage manually, leading to much higher costs compared with organisations that are using some management toolsets. While only 14 percent of organisations have a fully integrated management framework. [...]
Nexsan Upgrades Energy-Efficient Dedupe Storage System
Bob Woolery, senior VP of marketing for Nexsan, said today's organisations require cost-effective solutions for high availability and continuous data access. The Nexsan DeDupe SG 2.0 meets these requirements while providing the optimized performance and efficiency enterprises of all sizes demand, he said. [...]
London Olympics Says No To Open Source
Unlike most organisations, Pennell said that the Olympic organising committee doesn't have a legacy of IT to deal with which can often be source of inefficiency and cost. I am starting with a clean sheet of paper which is a great advantage when it comes to designing and implementing stuff that is green from the get go, he explained. [...] Sustainability is central to us. I don't actually have massive sales job in terms of the rest of the organisation and the importance of sustainability that one is in the bag. he said. [...] Access Server System / Access Information Organisation / Access Information Apps st. [...]
BCS Launches “Formal” Green IT Qualification
According to BCS Qualifications director Pete Bayley, although companies might be facing constraints on training budgets at the moment, the three day course is a worthwhile investment despite its £1400 price tag. Organisations need to know how to comply with ever tightening legislation, how they can create significant cost-efficiencies, and how to balance the internal and external economic drivers they face, he said. [...]
Neon Updates Mainframe Migration Tool
The innovative features in zPrime make it even easier for organisations to benefit from the significant cost savings to be achieved by taking advantage of speciality processor capacity. [...] IBM has already warned customers that zPrime might break licence agreements. But this has not stopped nearly 50 businesses from testing and validating the cost savings that can be achieved with zPrime, since its initial release in June. [...] zPrime can safely and significantly reduce IT costs while optimising legacy application investments, said Richard Ptak, principal and analyst at Ptak, Noel and Associates. It does so without sacrificing functionality or disrupting mainframe environments in any way. [...]
Businesses More Open To Windows 7, Than Vista
Given the added risks and costs of maintaining aging infrastructure, organisations would be well advised to begin planning their move to more current technology. The fact that so many organisations are already entitled to do so through Microsoft's Software Assurance should remove cost as a potential barrier, Williams continued. [...] Since so few organisations made the switch to Vista, over 90 percent of PCs have remained on Windows XP - an operating system about to celebrate its 10th birthday - while close to 5 percent are running operating systems that Microsoft no longer supports, Softchoice Services Development Manager Dean Williams said in a research note. [...] We've seen a sea change compared to the landscape in which Vista was introduced, Williams said. Organisations have some work to do to shore up a small percentage of their fleet, but the natural PC refresh cycle has more or less eliminated system requirements as a potential stumbling block to deploying Windows 7. [...]
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