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Thursday, March 12, 2009 3:23 PM

Microsoft Investing in Environmental Sustainability for the future

After settling at my desk this morning and opening up my inbox to review my overnight email, the highlight of the list was an email from Steve Ballmer about Microsoft’s efforts with addressing global environmental challenges by focusing on three core
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Monday, February 16, 2009 2:28 PM

New TechNet IT Manager Webcast Series

During this 8 part series starting on 18 th March, the IT Evangelists will be taking a look at some of the top technology trends tipped by Gartner for 2009, including Virtualisation, GreenIT, Business Intelligence and Cloud Computing.     Date/Time
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Thursday, February 12, 2009 3:23 PM

When Organisations Implement Something that Makes Sense (and even better when its yours)

Microsoft UK is no different from any organisation at present in its attempt to shave off costs where possible, which can sometimes seem frustrating or insignificant i.e. does reducing the number of sweets available at the reception desks really make
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Friday, January 23, 2009 12:39 PM

Digital By Choice and Virtualisation

This was an awesome post from Emma , our resident Licensing Guru. It’s an obvious choice to give to customers so I am really pleased to share this…… 1) All Volume licensing customers have the option to download products via VLSC, for most of you, this
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Tuesday, December 02, 2008 8:16 PM

Power Management Settings for Compliance and a Reduced Footprint

Great TechNet Magazine from the US here   Microsoft offers a number of solutions that can help IT Professionals reduce the energy footprint of their infrastructure. In this installment of the Sustainable Computing column, we want to discuss how features
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Monday, November 17, 2008 10:47 AM

Top 10 tips for green IT

  IT PRO has published a great list of top tips for GreenIT. Interestingly, most should help towards day-to-day cost saving too 1. Teleconferencing 2. Ditch Paper 3. E-documents and online tools 4. Consolidated data centres 5. Virtualisation 6. Home
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Thursday, October 16, 2008 9:42 AM

Gartner’s Top 10 strategic technology trends for the next year

Not much of a surprise of what is included in this list, but I would have expected Green IT to appear higher. I would also have expected social networking/enterprise mash-ups to still be in early days of adoption and exploration, rather than in the top
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Wednesday, October 08, 2008 10:55 AM

Green compliance

Many companies have been working to reduce their carbon emissions over recent years. Ignoring the environmental benefits, being green makes excellent business sense in terms of reducing costs and meeting customer expectations. However, until now the drive
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Thursday, September 11, 2008 11:53 AM

GreenIT and Virtualisation

Watch this short Silverlight video to find out how virtualisation compliments green IT practices that can lead to more-efficient energy use and cost savings.
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Friday, August 08, 2008 12:47 PM

Microsoft’s Chief Environmental Strategist Introduces Free Power Management Application for Consumers

Also from the Microsoft Environment blog.....Microsoft’s CES Rob Bernard, Verdiem’s CEO Kevin Klustner, and the Climate Savers Computing Initiative’s President Lorie Wigle announced the launch of Verdiem's Edison , a power management application offered
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Friday, August 08, 2008 10:44 AM

Microsoft Launches ENERGY STAR Compliant Power Management Tool for IT Administrators

Hot from the Microsoft Environment blog: Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr) 2007 has launched a new Desired Configuration Management (DCM) pack that fully complies with ENERGY STAR configuration guidelines! The new pack, which is
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Monday, July 28, 2008 5:05 PM

Dynamic Work

Throughout my career, I have quite often heard this question being asked "What's the difference between a manager and a leader" To me the answer is personified in the group manager of the area of the business that I sit in, namely the Server & Tools
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Thursday, July 03, 2008 8:14 PM

Windows Server 2008 Power Management White Paper

In Windows Server 2008, Microsoft introduced new features and technologies, some of which were not available in Windows Server 2003, that will help to reduce the power consumption of server and client operating systems, minimise environmental by products,
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Tuesday, June 24, 2008 10:57 AM

New website: Microsoft Environment - Innovating to Improve Our Planet

I was really pleased when this was brought to my attention. What with the rising oil prices and fears that we will run out of electricity in the UK within my lifetime, it really brings home that we all have a responsibility at home as well as at work
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Thursday, June 12, 2008 10:38 AM

TechEd US 2008 session - How Microsoft does IT

Bink.nu has done a fantastic write up of a "How Microsoft does IT" session at TechEd this week Barry Briggs, CTO of Microsoft IT, spoke about the challenges and ambitions of what Microsoft IT wants to achieve, as you can see from the image below, the
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