In Depth

In Depth

IT strategy

• How to untangle problems

  The digital economy has opened new doors for business through its fusion of digital and material business worlds. It has opened cracks, too, unfilled by traditional product and service offerings, that offer a business home for a myriad of new ...  Continue Reading

• Microsoft ramps up Azure with additional datacentres

  Microsoft is ramping up its Azure cloud computing platform with the opening of two more datacentres, bringing the total to six.  Continue Reading

• EDS report on 'dangerous' Chinook software published for the first time

  Computer Weekly is publishing, for the first time, a technical analysis of the software installed on the Chinook Mk2 helicopter, the Chinook model which featured in the RAF's worst peacetime crash.  Continue Reading

• Case study: Bovis Lend lease uses Nightwatchman to support Carbon Reduction Committment

  Project management and construction company Bovis Lend Lease has deployed software which automatically powers down PCs at night, to help it meet its Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC).  Continue Reading

• IBM builds water-cooled processor for Zurich supercomputer

  Many people will be sceptical about introducing water cooling into their datacentres, especially at chip level. But this is exactly what IBM's latest datacentre model is based on...  Continue Reading

• Grow your own energy, and someone else's

  Living up to its green credentials, Dutch plans to use the waste heat and CO2 from a datacentre located in the heart of a greenhouse farm are starting to take shape.  Continue Reading

• Can cloud computing make you greener?

  Although there is little evidence to suggest that cloud computing is intrinsically 'greener' than delivering IT services efficiently in-house, the UK's carbon trading scheme is likely to push organisations down this route anyway.  Continue Reading

• Taming datacentre emissions

  Chloride technical support manager Rob Tanzer addresses the hidden costs of datacentre power supply.  Continue Reading

• Taming datacentre emissions - power loss

  It will not surprise many to learn that between 8% and 10% of IT power throughput is typically consumed by the always-on three-phase uninterruptible power...  Continue Reading

• Taming datacentre emissions: flywheels and third-generation UPS

  Chloride routinely detects 450,000 mains power interruptions per month, each capable of bringing servers down and mostly bridged using battery power.  Continue Reading

• Code breaker secrets

  The fact that the code breakers at Bletchley had cracked the codes used to encrypt the messages sent to and from the German high command was possibly the...

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• How the Lorenz machine worked

  In answer to Hitler's demand for a machine that produced unbreakable code, the electrical engineering firm Siemens designed and built the Lorenz SZ40.  Continue Reading

• Accelerate applications to make your business more agile

  Recent times have seen pressure piled on enterprises to do more with less while reducing complexity and improving management, security and business continuity capabilities. But the trend towards centralising and consolidating IT infrastructures has ...  Continue Reading

• Strategy Clinic: How do I exploit my social network better?

  To make the most of social networking it is important to appreciate where social media is heading, writes Puni Rajah, analyst at TechMarketView....  Continue Reading

• Carbon reduction brings financial benefits

  For some time now, organisations deemed to be high consumers of energy, such as mining and refining, have had to adhere to laws around setting and achieving...  Continue Reading