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  • Green IT is number one priority: Gartner

    The intense power requirements needed to run and cool datacentres now account for almost a quarter of global carbon dioxide emissions from ICT, according to analyst firm Gartner.

  • US software 'blew up Russian gas pipeline'

    Faulty US software was to blame for one of the biggest non-nuclear explosions the world has ever seen, which took place in a Siberian natural gas pipeline, according to a new book published on Monday.

  • Horror story: Qld Health datacentre disaster

    On 20 May, a brief electricity brown-out struck a Queensland Health datacentre, starting a chain of incidents that resulted in serious outages of over 20 health applications. Read our blow by blow account of an event that constitutes every CIO's nightmare scenario.

  • Dell to sell new advanced server cooling

    Hardware giant Dell has struck a deal with industrial equipment maker Emerson Network Power to sell advanced cooling systems and services to datacentre owners.

  • Half the electricity in a PC is wasted: Intel, Google

    An awful lot of juice meant to power PCs never gets used so tech companies -- including Google and Intel -- have teamed up to try and make PCs and servers run more efficiently.

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  • Cesare Tizi, ZDNet Australia CIO of the Year 2007

    Welcome to the CIO Vision Series and congratulations to Cesare Tizi, who was awarded the ZDNet Australia CIO of the Year award for 2007. Tizi was recognised for the work he did while successfully leading Australia's largest energy supplier, AGL Energy, through a period of intense change.

  • Docs exchange a great find for AGR Upstream

    Necessity truly was the mother of invention at AGR Upstream Petroleum, a natural resource exploration firm that last year found itself needing a way to co-ordinate a AU$100 million ship refit involving nearly 40 subcontractors in three countries.

  • Remote access no longer an Upstream battle

    Single view of IT assets saves gas company thousands.

  • IBM rents out supercomputer brawn

    Big Blue begins a new program to rent out processing power on its own supercomputers by signing up a petrochemical company as a first customer.

  • The state of ERP

    Looking to enhance your business with an ERP system? Here's our round-up of the top vendors.

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  • Linux tapped to be audiovisual aid

    Audiovisual gear for the home, such as digital video recorders, from Sony and other manufacturers could soon have a new version of Linux inside.

  • Intel's "Banias" to have huge cache

    The chip giant's new mobile processor, due next year, will include a 1MB secondary cache. That's twice as big as the cache found on the Pentium 4.

  • Don't take it personal

    Personalisation has become an accepted part of technological interaction, but what does the future hold?

  • The incredible shrinking computer

    From room-sized mainframes to handheld PDAs, computers are getting, smaller, smaller, and smaller. Storage, both hard disk and memory, are doing the same.

  • Interfaces of the future

    How long will it be before your computer is able to read your facial expressions? Will a rude gesture become the next Control-Alt-Delete? ZDNet Australia investigates computing interfaces.

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