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…)

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…)

How much does it cost to run a typical “mid range” server?  There’s stacks of info about and research available, but it boils down to approx £500 per year.   (£200 in power consumption for running the actual server, and a scary £300 on average for air conditioning requirements).  (more…)