Hong Kong's Office of the Government Chief Information Officer has launched a new Data Center Facilitation Unit to promote the development of more high-tier data centers and provide useful information on setting up data centers in Hong Kong, the government website reported Monday.

IT departments must build a business case for greater data center efficiency measurement if they want to bring costs under control. Rhonda Ascierto, Ovum senior analyst, Energy and Sustainability Technology, said that by using new metrics from the creators of PUE, The Green Grid, organizations can reduce costs, risk, and carbon emissions, and create opportunity.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has awarded HP Enterprise Services a $2.5-billion contract to provide the agency with end-user desktop services and devices.

The Singapore-Hangzhou Science and Technology Park in Hangzhou, China has deployed a fully integrated communications system to help it realize its vision of becoming a truly integrated park. One of the results is a high-speed and secured communication with external public and private networks and services.

These days public sector IT departments are faced with mounting pressure to do more for less. Existing infrastructure or new budgets just aren't enough to cover the costs of the latest and greatest computing solutions. In this environment, virtualization is seen as a transformational tool for the public-sector data center.

HP has announced the integration of 3PAR Utility Storage across the HP Converged Infrastructure portfolio to simplify scalable cloud computing, and introduced new storage solutions for virtualization and data deduplication.

Cost containment, business continuity and capacity issues are the most important drivers of strategic change in Australian data centers in 2011, according to a recent survey by analyst firm Gartner Inc.

Calculating the carbon emmissions related to the use of desktop computers should factor in the carbon it will emit during its entire lifescycle.This white paper tackles a climate-friendly approach to operating a company's ICT infrastructure and the possibilities for office-based businesses in reducing their environmental footprint.

The State Bank of India, which serves 90 million customers through a network of 9,000 branches and 3,000 ATMs, embarked on an enterprise-wide IT project that dramatically altered its business processes.

One of the pillars of the IT budget is the PC refresh cycle. Technology industry analysts, vendors and the stock market closely track the way enterprises plan PC purchases. The cycle is driven by the interrelation between hardware - most specifically the power of the processor inside the PC - and the operating system and applications.