New bank with a head start

The new bank to jostle on the consumer high street in the uk is the metro.

http://www.metrobankonline.co.uk/

offering 'unparalleled levels of service' and ICT that will deliver a new customers account, cards and so on within 15 minutes presumably using a clean design of systems and standards that truly takes advantage of advances in computing.

If the metro [...]

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Green ICT and flawed science

Scientists dealt a blow to their climate change crusade with a lack of rigour in designing proof for their hypothesis. The controversy was similar I thought to the wide credibility gaps that exist between ICT as an industry and its claims of ROI or benefit to its purchasers. This is especially apparent in the attitude [...]

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Virtualisation and sustainability - 2010

Virtualisation offers efficient dynamic provisioning, high levels of availability, resilience and business continuity.

Pre-virtualisation an average server utilization figure was 10% – in other words 90% server redundancy adding no value

Virtualisation significantly helps to reduce energy consumption, an organisations carbon footprint, and  running costs

Virtualisation market is growing rapidly especially SMB. The current market penetration of the [...]

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Funding energy efficiency projects

The CRC requirements may prove a damp squib regarding a compelling event for investment in ICT energy efficiency but  the deals available for funding of capital expenditure to small and medium sized businesses are compelling as well as tax incentives.
 
These government  schemes are worth looking at and building a business case for:

The Energy Efficiency Scheme [...]

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