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Environmental issues exposed by the media and driven by consumers have placed IT departments under pressure to develop "green" data centers. Factors including the reduction of energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions in large data centers often provide the impetus for becoming green. A recent report issued by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) highlights the need for data center efficiency and demonstrates the increased pressure that IT departments are under.

Working in IT isn't always pretty. After all, we can't all work on the cutting-edge technologies all the time. Some of us have to get dirty -- in some cases, literally.

For much of his 34 years at Intel, Justin R. Rattner has been a pioneer in parallel and distributed processing. His early ideas didn't catch on in the market, but the time has come for them now, he recently told Computerworld's Gary Anthes.

Quantum has released hardware it claims will enable resellers and retailers to target markets from SMBs down to advanced home users.

Security vendor, Websense, has appointed Mark Spencer as its first A/NZ channel manager in response to ongoing growth in the local market.

Cisco subsidiary, Linksys, has introduced a tiered partner program and specialisations across its product lines. It coincides with the launch of a raft of new SMB products and services under the Linksys Connected Office platform.

Microsoft quietly deployed a patch to its Windows Live OneCare security suite earlier than expected to fix a bug that has erased some users' e-mail.

Microsoft has acknowledged that a bug in its Windows Live OneCare security suite has been causing users' e-mail to vanish from Outlook and Outlook Express.

Enterprise virtualization options have broadened with the open source vendor XenSource announcing it will take on the big guns with its own commercial software to run Windows and Linux guest operating systems.

Computer Associates (CA) has set its sights on the SMB market following the release of its Protection Suite.

StorageTek has upgraded its global reseller relationship with Veritas by taking over first and second level support for the storage vendor's products. The agreement only applies to products sold by StorageTek.