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From Hansard – Thin Client doesn’t equal energy efficient
I like “ They Work for You ”, a website which tracks things which go on in Parliament. I use the RSS feeds of ministers to keep an eye on news I’ve missed, such as new statistics published, or progress on big programmes, ( and I’ve also used it personally Read More...
Cows, computers and carbon
I admit that we are as guilty as any commentator on ‘green issues’ of quoting statistics such as how IT contributes 2% of the world’s carbon emissions ( but can contribute to saving 10x the emissions it generates by driving greater operational efficiencies Read More...
Windows Vista SP1 is coming...
One for IT Managers: We've announced that Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista will be released in the first quarter 2008, which is good news for those who are waiting for this before doing widescale deployments of the new operating system across your departments. Read More...
IT Forum: Virtualisation - it's no longer about virtualisation
" The value in virtualisation technology moving forward will be in the management and the operating system rather than in the virtualisation stack." I attended an interesting session at IT Forum today from Guillaume Field, from Dell.  He Read More...
Staffordshire County Council leads the way by reducing PC power consumption
I recently read through an interesting post on silicon.com about how Staffordshire County Council were saving up to £40,000 p/a by using software that they've written themselves to automatically switch their computers off at night. I was very interested Read More...
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