| Cisco, cities work on being green Cisco this week said it signed a memorandum of understanding with Metropolis, an association of 106 of the world's largest cities, to develop its plan for greener cities. Recycling the other half of a Green IT strategy Cisco Subnet blogger Scott Hogg says that power consumption is not the whole green story – recycling is a central character, too. SAP, IBM to showcase tech for cloud mobility IBM and SAP will showcase technology that automatically balances the workload from an SAP application across multiple remote servers, during a demonstration Tuesday at Cebit in Hanover, Germany. Cloud computing: Don't get caught without an exit strategy When the IT world looks back at 2008, it will certainly remember the global financial crisis. But it will also likely link that time frame with the takeoff of cloud computing, the engine behind more conferences, conversations and marketing collateral than seemingly any other technology in development today. Cloud Computing: What UC Berkeley Can Teach You Last month the UC Berkeley Reliable Adaptive Distributed Systems Laboratory (aka RAD Lab) published Above the Clouds: A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing." The report is an excellent overview of the move to cloud computing. It identifies some key trends, addresses the top obstacles to cloud use, and makes some excellent points about cloud economics. It also, in my view, understates a few aspects of cloud computing as well, primarily as a result of addressing the topic with an academic detachment. Overall, it's well worth tracking down and giving a read. Podcast: Cisco-NASA team on green Cisco's Simon Willis discusses Planetary Skin, the project that has Cisco partnering with NASA to develop an online global environmental monitoring platform that would capture and analyze data from satellite, airborne, sea- and land-based sensors across the globe - in a worldwide effort to reduce the carbon footprint and green the planet. (7:46) How To Design Green And Secure Buildings Put a security guy in a room with an environmentalist and ask them to design a building. Wait five minutes and you'll hear fists pounding tables, chairs hitting walls and a steady flow of profanity. IBM, Foxconn aim to reduce carbon emissions in Asia IBM has teamed up with China's largest electronics exporter, Foxconn Technology, to take charge of expanding the use of GreenCert software, which aims at reducing greenhouse gas emissions. SAP will cut carbon emissions, but calls for more SAP aims to cut its employees' contribution to global warming by 60% by 2020, co-CEO Léo Apotheker said at the Cebit trade show on Tuesday. Video: CEBIT goes green Greenpeace uses Cebit to launch a new environmental campaign. Top 5 features in IBM's latest mainframe software upgrade IBM this week rolled out a feature-filled upgrade to its mainframe operating system, z/OS, focused on pumping up Big Iron availability, management and security. The general idea is to help customers reduce costs and improve services, said Jim Porell, Distinguished Engineer of System z. New details on Cisco's upcoming blade server The system will feature two quad-core Intel Nehalem processors and 384GB of memory. Survey: Data storage to see increased spending in '09 The results of a survey of about 450 technology professionals released Wednesday found that of 26 technology categories, data storage was the only technology for which spending would increase this year. How To... Do storage virtualization right Get the basics of storage virtualization in this revamped Product Guide. Rebuild the System Databases – Practice makes perfect! The online information about how to rebuild a database is not necessarily correct, warns Microsoft Subnet blogger Brian Egler, so practicing a database restore before disaster hits. Official Windows 7 and WS2008 R2 news, in one spot Microsoft Subnet blogger Randy Muller offers as the Springboard Series website as a great place to find info on upcoming Microsoft operating systems. Enter for a Microsoft training giveaway from New Horizons
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