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Cisco boosted profit, sales in Q2 while cutting costs

(Stephen Lawson) — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:36:00 GMT

Cisco Systems posted year-over-year gains in revenue and profit for its fiscal second quarter on Wednesday, reporting net sales up 10.8 percent to US$11.5 billion, and said it met a key cost-cutting goal one quarter early.

Google Leads Green IT Ranking

(Amber Bouman) — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:16:00 GMT

Google's motto of "Do No Evil" apparently extends to its environmental policies, as the company was recently ranked first on Greenpeace's Cool IT Leaderboard for overall green practices. Google grabbed the top spot for the first time, ranking high due to recent disclosure of its own carbon footprint as well as its investment in utility projects such as a large-scale solar project taking place near Sacramento. Other reasons it made the top of the list? The RechargeIT.org project which was designed by Google to demonstrate the technology used in plug-in electric vehicles and to accelerate their adoption, as well as other actions such as increasing its renewable energy purchasing and creating a subsidiary called Google Engery.

Oracle stakes claim in R with Advanced Analytics launch

(Chris Kanaracus) — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:03:00 GMT

Oracle is hoping to carve out a prominent place in the world of R, the open-source statistical modeling language with roots in academia but an increasingly high profile in enterprise IT shops. It announced a new Advanced Analytics product on Wednesday that ties R to its database and family of software-hardware appliances.

Greenpeace scorecard documents greener enterprise offerings

(Cameron Scott) — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:01:00 GMT

Technology companies are not just making their products less carbon-intensive; they are also increasingly designing products to improve energy efficiency in the industries that they serve, according to the latest in a series of Greenpeace ratings of the sector's energy practices.

Red Hat launches storage appliance for Amazon's cloud

(Mikael Ricknas) — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:24:00 GMT

Red Hat has announced the Virtual Storage Appliance for Amazon Web Services (AWS), which can take advantage of Amazon's cloud while at the same time offering excellent performance, the company said on Tuesday.

Cloudyn monitors and optimizes AWS usage

(Nancy Gohring) — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:06:00 GMT

Cloudyn is launching a hosted service on Monday that aims to monitor a company's cloud usage and recommend ways to optimize that usage in order to cut costs.

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