Green IT and concern for the environment are getting lots of attention in the IT industry but seemingly productivity and not environmental concerns are the biggest driver for Australia’s small business owners switching to high-grade video conferencing for meetings.

Power products and services group, APC by Schneider Electric, has appointed a new chief for its services business with responsibility for the Pacific regional and Australian and New Zealand markets.

Data centre owner/operator, Metronode, has been selected for the Federal Government’s panel for the provision of greenfield data centres to government agencies, with the company’s two greenfield sites in Melbourne and Canberra selected as part of the panel.

The advent of emails, online communications and the so-called paperless office or workplace, is not quite as paperless as it might seem.

Infosys today launched a new service for its Australian and New Zealand customers which it claims will deliver less costs, less hassle and less paper and improve a company’s green credentials.

IBM has shamed its competitors, ranking by far the most environmentally friendly supercomputer maker. Eighteen of the top 20 systems on the Green500 list were made by IBM. The Green500 ranks supercomputers according to the number of floating-point operations per second they can perform for each watt of power consumed.

The mainstream market hasn’t yet embraced the use of electronic paper – otherwise known as e-paper – but its use is on the increase as a ‘greener’ rival to real paper.

HP's ExSO (Extreme Scale-Out) line is aimed at packing them in the data centre aisles. A new range of ProLiant SL servers increases density and reduces weight and power consumption.

HP's encouraging people to turn off their PCs at the end of the day to save energy. But is the Power To Change campaign as energy-efficient as it could be?

Storage and data management vendor, NetApp, has opened new offices in Melbourne, which the company says is testament to the importance of the technology sector to the State’s economy.