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TECH INSIGHT
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"Always on Call"
IP solutions are a rising trend in the contact centre industry. Within two years, according to Contact Professional, 82% of contact centres expect to be running IP telephony infrastructure. Sunanda Das, MD, Cable & Wireless discusses contact center
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MARKET SCAN
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APAC Ahead of West in IT Security Spending
A recent study suggests organizations in APAC region are spending more on security than their North American and European counterparts. The study also said that government and industry standards are not the major driving factors of IT security spending in APAC
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Project Big Green Toward Energy Conservation
By CXOtoday Staff
Mumbai, Aug 9, 2007
In one of the significant transformation of its data centers in a generation, IBM has announced that it'll consolidate thousands of computer servers onto about 30 System z mainframes running the Linux operating system. IBM Global Asset Recovery Services will recycle these servers. The transformation claims to turn IBM's infrastructure flexible in accordance to business needs.
The company anticipates that the new server environment will consume approximately 80% less energy than the current set up, and expects to save more than US $ 250 million over 5 years in energy, software, and system support costs. The initiative is a part of Project Big Green. IBM data centers in Poughkeepsie, New York; Southbury, Connecticut; Boulder, Colorado; Portsmouth, UK; Osaka, Japan; and Sydney, Australia will participate in the initiative.
The company anticipates that the global infrastructure, supporting over 350,000 users, will serve as an example of cutting-edge data center design for enterprises around the world. James Stallings, general manager of IBM System z mainframe, states, that the movement to the global platform would enable IBM to create a technology platform, which would save energy and simultaneously position IT assets for flexibility and growth.
By trading physical servers for virtual ones, IBM will be able to reduce costs along a broad front, including expenditures related to energy consumption, software and system support.
According to IBM, this replacement with 30 mainframes will save electricity to power a small town. This statistic in itself should be enough to generate interest from environmentalists and executives although it remains to be seen whether IBM will be able to carry out this transition without hurdles.
Related Links:
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Big Blue Retains Top Spot
Green Data Center: A CIO's Delightot
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 "The challenge lies in executing an approach"
With the incredible expansion in the Indian telecom industry, the role of Business Support Systems (BSS) or Operational Support Systems (OSS) solution providers is becoming crucial.Vivek Srivastava, director of (Solutions and Strategy) Oracle Communications Business Unit, APAC and Japan, talks about BSS/OSS providers' emergence in Indian telecom space, in an email interview with PankajMaru.Excerpts
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