Green

Northeast Texas District Aims To Improve Energy Efficiency

2/17/2009

Grand Saline Independent School District, located about 70 miles east of Dallas, has implemented $700,000 in facilities upgrades in order to improve operations and and efficiencies. The district contracted with TAC for improvements in lighting and energy efficiency, as well as a unified building management system (BMS) for the entire district. Read More

DataCore Signs Distribution Agreement with Ingram Micro

1/21/2009

Storage virtualization provider DataCore Software has entered into a distribution agreement with Ingram Micro. Under the agreement, Ingram will distribute the DataCore line of software through channels in North and South America. Read More

Avnet Uses VAR Network To Distribute Pano VDS

12/1/2008

Avnet Technology Solutions--an operating group of Avnet, Inc.--has recently singed an agreement with Pano Logic allowing the company to use its value-added reseller partner network in the United States and Canada to distribute the Pano Virtual Desktop Solution (VDS). Read More

Blackboard Managed Hosting Rolls Out Virtual Operating Environment

11/11/2008

Blackboard is implementing Scalent Systems' Virtual Operating Environment for its Blackboard Managed Hosting service. Built on technologies from Scalent, Red Hat, NetApp, and Dell, the revamped environment is designed to provide greater flexibility for data center management and improved security and recovery capabilities. Read More

Punahou School in Hawaii Turns to Virtualization for Data Center Energy Reduction

11/3/2008

Punahou School, a private K-12 school in Hawaii, is launching a new effort to reduce its overall campus energy consumption by half within the next eight years. As part of the effort, the school is partnering with IBM to overhaul its data center with new servers and virtualization software from VMware. Read More

FPL Services Ramps Up Energy Efficiency for Lee County Schools

10/7/2008

The School District of Lee County in Florida is expanding an energy conservation program it launched in 2006. The district has contracted with FPL Services to implement the second phase of the program, in which 25 new schools will be overhauled to reduce energy and water consumption. Read More

SciQuest Helps Organizations 'Green' Their Procurement Processes

10/3/2008

In a recent announcement, SciQuest said it has been consulting with customers of its procurement automation and supplier enablement solutions on ways they can utilize electronic procurement practices to achieve overall sustainability goals. Read More

Honeywell Inks 30-Year, $140 Million Deal with Alberta Schools

9/25/2008

Honeywell has announced a 30-year contract with the province of Alberta, Canada, worth $140 million. Under the agreement, the company will provide total Asset Management for 18 new K-9 schools, including performance monitoring and maintenance for the buildings until 2040. Read More

VMware Launches vClient, Aims To Create Desktops That Follow Users Anywhere

9/22/2008

In an announcement at VMworld last week, VMware unveiled plans to deliver a portfolio of solutions intended to turn virtualized desktops into "universal clients." The initiative, dubbed vClient, begins with a series of products called VMware View. Read More

Microsoft and Novell Roll Out Virtualized Linux Solution

9/17/2008

Microsoft and Novell, as part of their general interoperability partnership, have verified running Novell's SuSE Linux Enterprise Server as a guest operating system on Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. The companies announced yesterday that their channel partners will support the combined technologies. Read More