According to the DTI, 70% of businesses that suffer a major data loss are out of business within 18 months. So here’s some other scary ‘did you know’ stats: (more…)
When we attended the May Day Summit earlier this year, all companies were encouraged to commit in some way to trying to reduce their CO2 emissions. We were a little hesitant to bite off more than we could chew but, once we got started, found it easier than we thought and went for some quick wins. (more…)
According to the Environmental Audit Committee, the Government’s use of IT systems is one of the main reasons given for the failure to meet its own targets for reducing carbon emissions. Electricity use is increasing, largely due to the number of Government computers, printers, laptops et al. (more…)
White Papers and Deployment Blue Print Explain How to Protect All Aspects of XenApp Environment with Fewer Resources and at Lower Cost. (more…)
On July 30th, 24/7 Uptime’s high availability partner, Marathon Technologies, hosted a joint webinar with Microsoft – “Top 10 reasons to Upgrade to Windows 2008 now”. It was very well attended and several questions were posed to the speakers David Hanna, Infrastructure Architect at Microsoft, and Michael Bilancieri, Senior Director of Products at Marathon. In fact too many questions to handle during the one hour allocated webinar slot. So – here are a selection of the Q&As. Oh – and if you want to see the full webinar click here …. Windows 2008 Webinar (more…)
7th and 8th October will see 24/7 Uptime at the Energy Solutions Expo 2009 at London Olympia - thanks to Envirolink North West. (more…)
Was watching Aleksandr doing his stuff again last night when it struck me – I think he needs some everRun high availability software from his fans at 24/7 Uptime. Then he won’t need to beat up his computer – or Sergei. Simples!
Take a look at his latest bloopers here – love the ‘wardrobe malfunction’ and helium balloon parts …..
I’m learning more about the CRC legislation that comes into effect next year and it’s sounding like a rather expensive undertaking for business so far. From what I can gather, and in very simple terms, organisations within the scope of this legislation will initially need to buy allowances (emission credits) from the Government at a cost of £12/tonne of CO2 produced. (more…)
Cutting carbon emissions saves money, as we have posted on this blog on numerous occasions. By virtualising, consolidating and centralising IT provisions, companies can save thousands of pounds every year in energy bills and many, many tonnes of CO2 emissions. But now there is even more of an incentive for businesses in the UK’s North West to go green in the IT department. (more…)
Just read an interesting research report from Info-Tech/IBM about green IT and what the drivers and outcomes are for mid-sized companies, particularly in the current economic climate. (more…)
