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Handhelds gaining laptop-level power

Handheld computers, which have largely been regarded as the playthings of the technical and corporate elite, are gaining the raw computing power to become highly functional devices. As a result, they are starting to merge with portables. On the one side, portables running full desktop operating systems (e.g., the Vaio UX and Asus Eee PC) are shrinking to handheld or near-handheld size. On the other, new low-power processing and nonvolatile memory chips are providing desktop-level computing and storage power to handhelds. These handhelds have the power to compete with desktops in terms of real productivity, while offering the advantage of computing anywhere, anytime, rather than just on a desk. Enterprises need to push the vendors into developing hardware that supports productivity rather than just glitz and encourage knowledge workers to leverage the advantages of the new platforms to improve both their lifestyles and productivity.

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Financial giant goes green

The corporate IT group of a very large, worldwide financial organization with 100,000 employees, has initiated an ongoing “greening” process. This is focused largely on reducing energy use both to decrease the corporation's carbon footprint while creating a net savings in operational costs over the lifetime of new, more energy-efficient equipment, including new storage systems.

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Planning a Green Storage Initiative

Fluctuating energy prices have heightened electricity and energy consumption as a major issue within the technology community. IT is a significant consumer of energy and IT energy costs have been rising disproportionately because of continued investment in denser IT equipment. Estimates from the EPA and others indicate that IT will account for 3% of energy consumption by 2012.

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