Whatever happened to Green IT?

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	INSIDER Whatever happened to Green IT? Remember when "green computing" was all the rage? Companies competed for green awards, virtualized their data centers, set up e-waste committees, launched double-sided printing initiatives and activated power management features on PCs. Read More WEBCAST: VCE Vblock™ Specialized System for SAP HANA® Deploy SAP HANA® fast and with low risk. VCE brings together all of the necessary components for SAP HANA® into a single, standardized converged infrastructure system to ensure maximum performance at scale even with high data volumes. Learn More In this Issue Microsoft renews critical push into the cloud Without the cloud, Microsoft may lose grasp on the enterprise Enterprises increasingly look to the private cloud MIT invention to speed up data centers should cheer developers NetApp sets its sights on cloud data management: A Q&A with CEO Tom Georgens The Uneven Future: 2 Telling Views of Cloud Adoption WHITE PAPER: Red Hat Administrators Need Agile Platform for New Era of Storage Read this whitepaper and learn how administrators are keeping up by guiding their enterprises toward new, software-defined storage platforms that simplify and unify storage capacity across the enterprise and into the cloud. Read Now Microsoft renews critical push into the cloud Microsoft's renewed push into cloud computing, announced this week, doesn't change the fact that it faces unprecedented competition in a business that's critical to its future. Read More Without the cloud, Microsoft may lose grasp on the enterprise Microsoft's renewed push into cloud computing, announced this week, doesn't change the fact that it faces unprecedented competition in a business that's critical to its future. Read More Enterprises increasingly look to the private cloud Companies interested in moving to cloud computing are increasingly choosing a private cloud for the increased security and, often, compliance features instead of the public cloud, according to a recent survey. Read More WHITE PAPER: Zenoss Too Many Monitoring Tools Impacts IT Operational Efficiency Forrester finds that using too many IT monitoring tools is causing operational inefficiency. Download the white paper to learn how to fix issues faster and lower your operating expenses. Learn more MIT invention to speed up data centers should cheer developers A breakthrough by MIT researchers could change the way Web and mobile apps are written and help companies like Facebook keep the cat videos coming. Read More NetApp sets its sights on cloud data management: A Q&A with CEO Tom Georgens Moving virtual servers around a hybrid cloud environment isn't hard, but managing the data is. That's why NetApp wants to be "the enterprise data-management standard across the enterprise," says CEO Tom Georgens. Network World Editor in Chief John Dix recently caught up with Georgens to get his take on what changes in the cloud computing world. Read More The Uneven Future: 2 Telling Views of Cloud Adoption My last couple of columns have addressed cloud adoption patterns by IT organizations. Has Cloud Computing Been A Failed Revolution discussed the seeming ennui regarding cloud computing on the part of IT groups a that they seem less interested in the field, despite the belief on the part of vendors that the cloud represents tomorrow's technology infrastructure. Most recently, The Real Cloud Computing Revolution described three real-world examples of companies using cloud computing to solve problems they couldn't have addressed in the infrastructure models of traditional IT. Read More
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