• Foxconn reports three possible suicides at factories in China

  Three workers at Foxconn factories in China have fallen to their deaths in recent weeks and police are investigating, according to the company.

• Virtual reality and non-conductive liquids: data centers get innovative

  Google I/O is getting most of the attention this week, but a conference at the other end of Silicon Valley showed there's plenty of innovation happening in the word of data centers, too.

• Progress at Foxconn factories, but working hours still exceed Chinese laws

  Employees at the Chinese factories of Apple supplier Foxconn continue to work beyond the country's legal limit of 49 hours a month, according to a report from the Fair Labor Association (FLA). But the Taiwanese manufacturer is making overall steady progress in improving the working conditions at a select group of factories in China, it said.

• Swedish data center saves $1 million a year using seawater for cooling

  A data center in Sweden has cut its energy bills by a million dollars a year using seawater to cool its servers, though jellyfish are an occasional hazard.

• Datacentres show signs of 'green fatigue'

  A new survey from the Uptime Institute suggests fatigue is setting in when it comes to making data centers greener, and it may be partly due to overachievers like Google and Microsoft.

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  Save printer ink by choosing an ink-saving font

  I've written before about ways you can save money on pricey printer consumables.

• 20 amazing, amusing and alarming IT facts

  A new report warns that the cost from lost productivity at work related to the new NFL season could add up to US$10.5 billion. And there we were, thinking the biggest waste of time at work came from fielding an endless stream of IT industry reports?

• 20 more IT mistakes to avoid

  Back in 2004, InfoWorld's then-CTO Chad Dickerson polled the best and brightest to reveal 20 IT mistakes that were surefire recipes for cost overruns, missed deadlines, and in some cases, lost jobs.

• Tech's looming battle against rising energy costs

  IT has gotten a bad rap when it comes to energy consumption. Walk into any datacenter, and you can almost feel the carbon emissions leaking into the atmosphere. However, research shows that the datacenter actually accounts for a very small percentage of a company's overall energy usage. And businesses are missing the other significant opportunities where they could cut energy usages -- and costs. Ironically, the same IT department that is reducing energy usage in the datacenter could lead the energy-savings initiatives across the enterprise.

Whitepapers about environment

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  Virtual Certainty - Best Practices for Gaining Monitoring Clarity in VMware Environments

  The benefits of virtualisation are unassailable: increased agility, scale, and cost savings to name but a few. However, so too are the monitoring challenges posed by these environments—including complexity, lack of visibility and control, and inefficiency. This white paper reveals the best monitoring practices to employ in virtualised environments—best practices that are essential in enabling organisations to overcome their monitoring challenges so they can get the most business value from their virtualisation investments.

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  End to End Vulnerability Management: A New Approach to Layered Security

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  Deduplication and Compression: Maximizing Effective Capacity Utilization

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  NEWS RELEASE: HP Recognises Australian Businesses for Driving Environmental Sustainability through their Imaging & Printing Infrastructure.