Friday, June 18, 2010

ZSL Sees Big Uptake in Demand for Virtualization

ZSL presents at EuroCloud Congress 2010, Luxembourg on 'Fostering Cloud Innovation'





EuroCloud Europe invites you to the historic first EuroCloud Congress to be held in June 21 2010 - 7, rue Alcide de Gasperi, Luxembourg-Kirchberg.

This unique one day event will be fully dedicated to Cloud Computing in Europe and will be the place to meet with business leaders, political decision makers and academics engaged in cloud computing and software-as-a-service from across Europe.

Its mission is to examine specific opportunities and challenges surrounding the uptake of this immensely significant technology sector in Europe. Structured as a mix of open plenary and member-only workshop sessions, it aims to produce findings in specific areas for further investigation and action with relevant political and industry organisations.

This will be the first time that such a broad cross-section of the European industry in the vitally seminal sector of cloud computing has come together to focus on the role that political, industrial and economic policy can play in its successful growth and global impact. Attendees will benefit from valuable information exchange and networking with peers and subject matter experts from across Europe.

For event details: http://eurocloudcongress.org/pro/fiche/quest.jsp;jsessionid=389903CCF71E105888D530B0D035D2F7.gl1

Register the event at: http://eurocloudcongress.org/pro/fiche/quest.jsp;jsessionid=9BACCD507C8C4886BB79218FF0CFD762.gl1?pg=inscription&locale=2

Thursday, June 10, 2010

ZSL Presents at The Innovation Forum for Mobile Applications - Princeton University, June 16, 2010

Zylog Systems Ltd (ZSL) will be presenting about the Innovation in the Enterprise Mobile and Wireless Computing and Business Solutions Development at the Innovation Forum organized by the NJTC and Princeton University.

Mobilizing the Enterprise Applications such as ERP, CRM, ECM and SCM is one of top priorities in 2010 for the CIOs to improve the productivity and collaboration of their mobile work force.

Designing and Developing business applications for various mobile and wireless devices in an interesting yet challenging due to the fast pace innovation in the market by the technology vendors like Apple, Google and Microsoft. ZSL and New Jersey Technology Council(NJTC) want to foster the mobile computing innovation in the region so that developers, entrepreneurs, market leaders and investors can come together to learn and share their best practices periodically.

Date & Time:
June 16, 2010 3:30 PM – 8.00 PM
Location: Bowen Hall
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ

For more info and register to attend, please visit http://www.njtc.org/events/indevt.asp?dbid=%7b6BC3DB8E-AE59-DF11-8271-0013725A113C%7d&svdate=N

The Emergence of Eco-Friendly Computing Reduce Reuse Recycle




June, 2010: In U.S., the Data Centers accounted for 61 billion kWh or approx 1.5 percent of the Nation’s electricity consumption.

Staggering Statistics
In U.S., the Data Centers accounted for 61 billion kWh or approx 1.5 percent of the Nation’s electricity consumption. This usage is equivalent to the consumption of approximately 6 million U.S. households with the estimated figure of 12% increase annually according to the study report from the EPA.

The report puts a tremendous responsibility on the IT industry to adopt the Green IT initiatives more seriously and make the IT infrastructure as Eco-Friendly or Energy Efficient.

The EPA reports that energy usage in data centers doubled between 2000 and 2006 and is predicted to double again by 2011, hence the interest in energy efficiency.

Business leaders searching for a green strategy encounter few roadmaps and established rules and plenty of hidden twists and turns.

Emerging Standards
The Energy Star Version 5.0 standard provides guidance for choosing energy-efficient equipment, including Network devices, PC and Laptops, workstations, small-scale servers, and thin clients. To earn the Energy Star Version 5.0 label, the computing devices must meet the set power consumption criteria.

The IT infrastructure managers and Technology Manufacturers looking for greener alternatives will begin to benefit this year from a major initiative aimed at reducing the power consumed by Ethernet device- IEEE 802.3az, or the Energy-Efficient Ethernet (EEE) standard, will implement low-power idle (LPI) modes for the full range of Ethernet BASE-T transceivers (100Mb, 1GbE and 10GbE) and the backplane physical layer standards (1GbE, 4-lane 1GbE and 10GbE).

The Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT) goes further in providing guidance to select environmentally friendly electronic device or equipment. In addition to requiring Energy Star rating, EPEAT registration evaluates computing device based on further criteria including materials selection and composition, life cycle considerations, end-of-life design and management, and packaging. EPEAT registers products at Bronze, Silver, and Gold levels according to how many of the optional criteria they meet on top of the 23 required criteria.

Virtualization and Cloud clean the Carbon
Virtualization, cloud computing, data center optimization and legacy modernization are the major focus areas for the IT organizations globally since the economic meltdown.

Cost savings and IT infrastructure consolidation are driving the Green IT agenda at the moment. The shrinking IT budget is also causing IT to reconsider how to run things more cost effectively as we continue to do more with less.

Virtualization clearly offers the promise of better resource utilization and lower operating expense. Energy-Star servers, outside air economizers and the like offer true green advantages.

A recent survey of IT Managers worldwide about their environmental strategies indicates about 54% admitted that cloud computing is now part of their overall environmental strategy. And over 21% of IT managers believe that cloud computing is a much greener alternative to traditional computing infrastructures, but it seems that the vast majority still remain to be convinced.

Green Client Computing Power Savior
The benefits of efficient Client Computing through desktop virtualization and print management creates significant impact on the energy. Longer PC lifecycles and more efficient power usage are other desktop virtualization benefits.

Hosted virtual desktops continue to garner significant market attention. Organizations considering their deployment can minimize cost and risks by following implementation best practices outlined by the industry experts. Desktop Virtualization technology will help in extending the lifetime of the Desktops by stretching the PC refresh cycle to reduce the load on already overtaxed landfills. Avoid sending hazardous materials to those landfills, old systems and supplies can be reused, repurposed, and/or recycled.

Green Client Computing is a combination of strategies and initiatives that reduce the environmental footprint of IT infrastructure. This arises from reductions in energy use and consumables, including hardware, power, and paper and extending the equipments lifetime among others. Because of these reductions, Green IT initiatives also produce cost savings in energy use, purchases, management and support, in addition to environmental benefits. Beyond cost savings and environmental benefits, some initiatives may address stakeholder and regulatory needs and demands.

Green Journey
Green computing is a continuous journey and everyone is responsible to play their role to make computing greener with the optimized energy usage to operate the electronic devices and mushrooming professional gadgets at work place. Such practices include the implementation of energy-efficient Servers and Accessories or Peripherals as well as reduced resource consumption and proper disposal of electronic waste (e-waste).

Green IT is taking on a bigger role for many reasons, including an increased awareness of environmental danger; concern about power bills; regulatory requirements; government procurement rules; and a sense that corporations should embrace social responsibility.

Since IT is still responsible for 2% of all carbon releases, IT managers should put best practices in place to

- Optimize the Power usage with the proper Power Management software
- Actively manage the desktop or laptop power settings
- Modernize the Data Center by Virtualizing the Servers, Desktops and Applications
- Mandate the purchase of energy efficient computing devices
- Establishes energy measurement and take the responsibility to monitor the energy usage
- Remember to Reduce ... Reuse ...Recycle...

The author is Executive Vice-President, Business Development, Zylog Systems

Read the article online at: http://www.thesmarttechie.com/magazine/fullstory.php/DNGF996515828