A recent report from analyst company Forrester suggests 86% of  IT directors surveyed already have or are considering a green IT plan. (more…)

Another webinar we’ve been asked about – so we’re including it on our site to make it easier to find.  Yes, you need to enter your email address to access it but it’s worth a look to learn more.  We’ll be adding it to our Marathon webinar page shortly but click here to see it now. (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…)

According to Patni and Data Centre Management, the credit crunch and recession have put value for money at the top of the business agenda, particularly in the area of IT.  Implementing virtualisation is right up there in the cost saving arena. (more…)

Flat IT budget growth means that organisations facing critical datacentre limitations, such as a shortage of floor or rack space, are looking towards virtualisation software or outsourcing alternatives rather than building new datacentres or upgrading existing facilities.  Those alternatives include IT leasing, managed services, virtualisation, cloud computing and software-as-a-service (SaaS).  24/7 Uptime can advise on best and most relevant use of all of these techniques, technologies and practices. (more…)

The current global economic recession has squeezed IT budgets, hindered capital expenditure and generally slowed the growth of IT development. However Green IT is gaining an upside in the economic downturn, according to a report just published by independent market analyst Datamonitor, “Can Green IT Bloom in an Economic Downturn.” (more…)

24/7 Uptime’s server high availability partner, Marathon Technologies, presented a live webinar on 24 June.  Some questions and answers arose during the live broadcast that concentrated on protecting a SQL environment using Marathon’s everRun fault tolerant high availability software and these are detailed below.  Contact us on info@247uptime.co.uk if you would like to view the full webinar and/or be included on our mailing list so we can tell you about the next one. (more…)

We keep being asked about this so thought it sensible to post the entire press release here so it’s easy to find!

Microsoft and Marathon Technologies Expand Relationship to Provide Fault Tolerant Computing to More Businesses

In January 2009, Microsoft and Marathon Technologies signed a development and marketing agreement that focused on high availability solutions with Windows Server. (more…)

Some interesting information from Springboard Research / Computerworld last week: less than 10% of Asia Pacific firms have formally implemented a green IT strategy – yet 60% plan to do so during the next 2 years and almost one third say that the economic crisis will actually accelerate implementation. (more…)

Good – it looks like they both agree with us then. 

In a recent report titled “TechRadar I&O for Professionals: Green IT 1.0 Technologies, Q2 2009,” Forrester analyst Doug Washburn discusses the potential short- and long-term success of more than a dozen “green IT 1.0″ technologies.  He agrees that server virtualisation is one of the green technologies that will thrive over the long term and deliver most value to organisations. (more…)