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- IBM opens up systems framework for energy companies
- IBM has designs on utility companies and other players in the smart grid and renewable energy world that are trying to see the big picture. The company is introducing a framework called the IBM Solution Architecture for Energy and Utilities Framework SAFE, which acts as an integration...
- Tags: Utility Company, Industry, Energy Company, IBM Corp., Telecom & Utilities, Broadband Over Power Line, GIS, Strategy, Telecommunications, Broadband Internet, Software, Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-09-16
- Energy Company Promotes Environmental Responsibility, Lowers Costs With "Green IT"
- MidAmerican Energy Company is highly focused on environmental responsibility, including energy generation from renewable resources. The company also promotes this responsibility within IT, relying on Microsoft products and technologies to help reduce its energy usage and lower costs. With its "Green IT" strategies, the company has reduced power consumption, minimized...
- Tags: Green IT, Energy Company, Microsoft Corp., Responsibility
- Case studies 2009-05-25
- Chevron Looks to Reduce Costs, Enhance Security With Operating System Upgrade
- Chevron is one of the world's leading energy companies with 40 percent of its 59,000 employees using mobile computers. The company sought a solution to help it enhance security while still meeting the needs of its employees. Chevron decided to upgrade its 90,000 computers to the Windows Vista operating system....
- Tags: Operating System, Energy Company, Chevron Corp., Productivity, Security, Operating Systems, Software
- Case studies 2008-12-01
- Swiss Energy Company Boosts Productivity and Security With Desktop Modernization
- Leading Swiss energy company BKW was running outdated desktop software on its employees' computers, compromising its ability to compete in an energy market where productivity and agility are essential. The company decided to upgrade its 2,300 computers to a new desktop platform based on the Windows Vista Enterprise operating system...
- Tags: Energy Company, Microsoft Corp., Desktops, Security, Hardware
- Case studies 2008-09-14
- The CIP Challenge: Securing Critical Cyber Assets in the Energy Industry
- Energy companies today have more to deal with than ever before-from a complex and challenging regulatory environment, to environmental challenges and pressure from investors and shareholders to increase profits. To survive, many energy companies have had to re-think the way they operate and make organizational changes to become more efficient....
- Tags: Access Management, Energy Company, Imprivata
- White papers 2008-08-01
- Energy Company Standardizes Its IT Environment to Support Integration
- DONG Energy was formed in 2006 by a combination of six Danish energy companies. After the merger, the company was left with a highly complex IT infrastructure with multiple desktop platforms. To simplify management and integrate its business applications - and provide a platform for developing new ones - DONG...
- Tags: IT Environment, Information Technology, Energy Company, Microsoft Corp., Integration, Desktops, Strategy, Hardware, Management
- Case studies 2008-06-05
- Who's tops in wind? The Spanish.
- Courtesy: Iberdrola. An annually updated ranking of wind energy companies shows Iberdrola is now Numero Uno. Every year Emerging Energy Research tracks the top wind energy companies based on how much electricity they generate. Spanish-based Iberdrola is now ahead of the previous leader,...
- Tags: Alternative Energy, Energy Company, Wind, Iberdrola, EER, Investment, Financial Services, Finance, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-04-08
- Energy Company Automates Operating System Deployment and Updates to 5,700 Computers
- DONG Energy, Denmark's largest energy company, needed a way to quickly deploy a consistent technology infrastructure to 5,700 computers located across several countries. As a solution the company deployed Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007. As a result DONG Energy has reduced the manual involvement in operating system deployment, automated...
- Tags: Deployment, Operating System, Energy Company, Microsoft Corp., Computer, Productivity, Operating Systems, Software
- Case studies 2007-11-01
- SAP Project Management Services Seamlessly Integrate Information Assets
- ISAGEN S.A, one of Colombia's largest energy companies, is a public utility that generates and distributes electricity, natural gas, coal, steam, and other industrial-use energy to the country's biggest businesses. Energy demand is covered through four hydroelectric plants and one thermoelectric plant. Colombia's top energy company needed to integrate its...
- Tags: Asset, Energy Company, SAP AG, Colombia, Project Management, Asset Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Management
- Case studies 2007-03-01
- (Photos: Pocket-size solar power)
- (Photos: Pocket-size solar power)Right on!Nice to see that someone is finally getting it! Solar, wind, geothermal, hydroelectric and wave generators are the way to go. We need to start dumping our reliance on fossil fuels now!The 26 watt solar sheet is cool! ]:)This is a bit annoying. I wish they...
- Tags: energy company, Henry Ford, photograph, Pocket-size solar power
- Discussion threads 2007-01-12
- Powergen Individualizes Service Offerings Using Improved View of Customer Data
- Part of E.ON, the world's largest private-sector power and gas energy company, Powergen is one of the United Kingdom's largest energy suppliers, with around 6 million electricity and gas customers. The company wanted to create a technical environment in which to integrate customer and analytic data. The challenge was to...
- Tags: Customer Information, Oracle Corp., Customer, Energy Company, Powergen
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- Attention renewable energy developers: Grant fund seeks applications
- Transportation and logistics company seeks grant applications for alternative energy projects. by Heather Clancy
- Tags: Developer, Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy, Supply Chain, Transportation, Telecom & Utilities, Business Operations, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-11-09
- 10 ways to evaluate your IT management software
- Does your helpdesk work for you or do you work for your helpdesk? Saar Bitner of SysAid Technologies tells how to manage you IT management software. Commentary - Choosing the right IT management software solution is a strategic decision that requires the careful planning and consideration of every IT...
- Tags: IT Administration, Information Technology, Software Solution, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Management, IT management, software, Saar Bitner SysAid Technologies, Special to ZDNet, Saar Bitner SysAid Technologies, Special to ZDNet
- News items 2009-11-05
- HP: How about your own personal smart grid for your data center?
- No thanks HPI am ripping out all HP gear and implementingDell hardware and VMware.Sounds like more smoke and mirrors to sell more HP gearHP is not interested in you reducing your energy costs as much as they are in selling you more HP gear, which of course integrates more tightly...
- Tags: data center, Hewlett-Packard Co.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-05
- Onkyo SKS-HT870
- Onkyo is known for having speaker expertise, even though it's not primarily a speaker company. That's because of Onkyo's success selling home-theater-in-a-box systems HTIBs, which combine a speaker system and an AV receiver in a single box, taking some of the confusion out of putting together your own system. The...
- Tags: center channel, speaker, Onkyo
- Product reviews 2009-10-30
- Treece and truth
- Treece, KSYes, Treece is pretty much a toxic wasteland. But instead of ranting about the blowing off of mountaintops, clear-cutting forests, plowing up the prairie, and providing a link to an informationless NYT blurb, why don't you actually *talk* about Treece?Why not tell some of the story of *why*...
- Tags: Treece
- Discussion threads 2009-10-29
- Let's do this now, why wait?
- Okay that makes no sense at allThe people paying the energy bills for these buildings aren't the same people who would benefit from preserving the status quo.Perhaps he'd get more traction if he changed his company to a non profit staffed 100% with non paid volunteers that wrote and gave...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Investment, government
- Discussion threads 2009-10-29
- Five interesting new details about Verizon's Moto Droid
- HTML5 a "nonstandard"?Isn't HTML5 a "nonstandard", in that it hasn't been approved yet?I can't wait for my new ....... after 2 deal to arrive! Sounds like this phone rocks. That combined with Verizon Wireless coverage this should be a big winner!So the big "savings" from using a "free"...
- Tags: Handhelds, GPS, HTML5, Verizon Communications Inc., Moto Droid, phone, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-28
- What the DoD now says about open source
- I could just see a commander in the field ....having to wait for procurement to get a simple map through bids while his troops are getting shot up even though it is publicly available (oh wait, isn't that how the Chinese embassy got accidentally bombed?)Always use the best tool for...
- Tags: Linux, UNIX, Operating systems, Cyberthreats, SECURITY, Spyware, adware & malware, U.S. Department of Defense, open source, OpenBSD, attack
- Discussion threads 2009-10-28
- The paper chase: Intralinks calculator tracks paper saved, emissions diverted
- Intuitively speaking, your team KNOWS that it could probably save a lot of money AND get greener by converting some information-sharing processes that have traditionally been paper-based think initial public offering prospectus or mega legal documents into a digital variant. IntraLinks, which has been looking for ways...
- Tags: IntraLinks Inc., IPO, Financial Planning, Investment, Financial Services, Finance, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-10-27
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