IT execs say 'going green' is essential. Are you ready?

A tool to search Bing and Google at the same time; IDC: Recession driving down storage spending IT Best Practices NetworkWorld.com | Update Your Profile Sponsored by Avaya Mastering UC: An SMB Example In this live webcast, Jason Snook, IT director for Mindwave Research, will describe why his small-to-medium size business took the leap into unified communications. He'll talk about how UC has measurably improved Mindwave's bottom line, while providing superior business communications for both the company's customers and home-based workers. Spotlight Story IT execs say 'going green' is essential. Are you ready? A recent worldwide survey commissioned by Symantec says that "going green" is now an essential strategy for most enterprise IT organizations. Ninety-seven percent of the responding companies are in the process of developing or have already implemented a green IT strategy. Are you ready to support your company's strategy with actionable plans? 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IDC: Recession driving down storage spending Hard times are driving large enterprises to patch holes in their storage architectures with systems designed for small and medium-sized businesses, one reason enterprise disk storage revenue fell 18.2 percent in the first quarter of this year, according to research company IDC. What does Level of Assurance really mean? In one of the mailing lists I read (and I do read a ton of electronic bumpf in order to glean an enlightening paragraph or two), there's been a discussion lately of the phrase "Level of Assurance" (LoA) with at least one gentleman (well known in enterprise architecture circles, but who shall remain nameless here) trying to equate it with "trust" or even "level of trust" (a new coining, I think). So what does LoA really mean? 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