Cashed-up PC manufacturer Lenovo has more work to do to reach pole position in Australia and New Zealand despite strong global growth, particularly in developing economies.
A number of positions at Lenovo's Australia and New Zealand operations will be relocated to Brazil, China and Malaysia as part of the PC maker's global restructuring exercise, a company spokesperson told ZDNet Australia.
The Intel-backed Climate Savers Computing Initiative (CSCI) program is now active in Australia, but participating vendors concede the hardest work still lies ahead as the green-focused consortium pursues the program's goal of slashing Australia's IT-related greenhouse emissions by 50 per cent in the next two years.
The number of servers shipped to the Asia Pacific region has increased by 10 percent, but shipments to Australia have taken a 7.9 percent dive.
It's official, 2007 was the year in which green IT became important to the IT industry, with corporate giants like Google, Intel, HP, Dell, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems all willing to get their hands dirty.
Lenovo is moving away from its business origins with the launch of a new consumer oriented PC line, dubbed the "Idea" range, later this month.
Lenovo is moving away from its business origins with the launch of a new consumer oriented PC line, dubbed the "Idea" range, later this month.
En route to Melbourne this weekend, Formula 1 team AT&T Williams' lead driver Nico Rosberg hopes to power ahead thanks to a new sponsorship deal with Lenovo.
Intel today launched the vPro desktop platform in Australia and New Zealand, claiming the technology will reduce support costs, improve hardware security and make PCs easier to manage. However, newly found partner Apple has no plans to include vPro in its line of offerings.
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