From the June 20, 2008 issue: It begins: According to the BPM (Business Performance Management Forum), data centers across the United States are using the equivalent of what five power plants produce in a year. Meanwhile, as energy expenditures skyrocket, discarded IT equipment has been taking up a higher percentage of the world’s debris at [...]
Tagged green IT, Processor MagazineFrom the June 13, 2008 issue: It begins: “Businesses are recycling and refurbishing their equipment more and more for green reasons, security reasons, or, frankly, they want a little money,” says Steve Hilton, vice president of enterprise research and converged solutions at The Yankee Group. Hilton says the best remanufacturers and recyclers follow high standards [...]
Tagged DMD Systems Recovery, green IT, Processor Magazine, Refurbished, WeismanFrom the June 6, 2008 issue: It begins: Back in the halcyon days when 1GB seemed an unconscionable amount of space and Sarbanes-Oxley was just a glimmer in some lawmaker’s mind, IT managers dealt with backups mostly by buying locally attached storage, typically tape-based, and using hanging files of paper documents. These days, backing up [...]
Tagged backups, Casdex, Processor MagazineFrom the May 30, 2008 issue: This article is a sort of case study on how accounting firm Grant Thornton uses Zenprise for Exchange and Zenprise for BlackBerry: In today’s marketplace, successful accounting firms need to do more than simply balance the books at tax time. They advise their clients on the growing morass of [...]
Tagged Blackberry, Exchange Servers, Grant Thornton, Mike Ruman, Zenprise