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• Supply chain management in Australia - Part 3

  By David Braue | 21 September, 2011 07:00

  As if data quality and stockouts weren’t enough of a day-today worry for CIOs, added pressure to serve demanding online customers and keep up with changing legislation are creating new challenges. With several retail giants lumbering online and the looming introduction of the government’s new carbon tax, CIOs need to be working with procurement, financial and other business leaders to ensure supply-chain systems are up to today’s new challenges.

• Smart grids set to revolutionise energy companies - Part 2

  By David Braue | 03 May, 2011 10:29

  Smart meters have a way to go. The recent 2010 Australian Smart Grid Study, a survey of 13 Australian utilities by sector consultancy Logica, showed an average self-reported maturity rating of just 2.14 on a scale of 1 to 5, and communications networks to support them rated 2.80.

• Smart grids set to revolutionise energy companies - Part 1

  By David Braue | 02 May, 2011 11:28

  Like any entrepreneur, Andrew Dyer is excited about the possibilities for his clean-energy venture, BrightSource Energy. The company, of which he is a director, is this year partnering with energy giant Chevron to cover 1000 acres of the US desert with 4000 mirrors that reflect sunlight onto three boilers mounted atop each of three 100 metre towers.

• Slideshow: Verb IT first with HP Performance Optimised Datacentre (POD)

  By Rodney Gedda | 20 August, 2010 08:57

  Sydney-based Verb IT is the first company in the Asia Pacific region to provision an HP Performance Optimised Datacentre (POD) next-generation data centre in a shipping container. The new Verb DC site where the POD is located is a standard industrial warehouse in Wyong on the NSW Central Coast (one hour north of Sydney). Verb DC is schedueld to go live in September after a 14-week project, including the POD delivery time. In what is being painted as a big win for the Central Coast IT industry, the new POD will provide computing services to local businesses and the world.

• Beware Worthless Claims in Green Clothing

  By Bill Snyder | 13 April, 2010 06:45

  Reducing power usage and cutting carbon emissions is probably the right thing to do for the future of the planet. But keep this is mind: Green is a powerful marketing term right now and cost-savings promises are part of the marketing pitch. Like all marketing promises, results vary. One example: The amount of money a typical consumer can save by using or powering down energy-efficient computers, printers and the like is often small--in the case of an up-to-date laptop, the energy savings add up to perhaps just $10 a year.

• Wal-Mart orders suppliers to go green, some see red

  By Thomas Wailgum | 21 July, 2009 03:05

  A famous superhero once noted, with trepidation: "With great power comes great responsibility." Retail juggernaut Wal-Mart, with US$401 billion in worldwide sales, has always wielded the "great power" part with its suppliers.

• What role should IT play in reining in energy costs?

  By Tam Harbert | 06 February, 2009 08:58

  IT buys the technology; facilities buys the energy. That's the way it's always been in corporate America. But that may be changing.

• Companies are overstating green claims, consumers say

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 08 January, 2009 08:11

  Sixty-five percent of consumers think some companies overstate their green credentials to sell more products, according to research presented by industry organization Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) at the International Consumer Electronics Show on Tuesday.

• Sun, wind, algae: Future data-center power sources?

  By Ann Bednarz | 26 November, 2008 07:37

  The potential for wind power in the upper Midwest United States has led some to dub the region the "Saudi Arabia of wind." But tapping that potential isn't easy. In particular, the difficulty of integrating wind power into utility companies' transmission grids is hampering adoption.