Pesticide secrets worth $100m were allegedly emailed to China

Data leakage of the highest order is at the centre of an unfolding story that finds a Massachusetts scientist under indictment for allegedly conveying trade secrets about organic pesticides developed by Dow Chemical to a university in China.

Defensible destruction

Companies have been struggling for years with the dilemma of how to manage their vast information stores so that the right information is available to run the business and information that no longer has value is discarded.

How archiving can benefit your organisation

Archiving electronic content – the processes and technologies associated with retaining electronic content for long periods – is a critical best practice that every company should follow. Retaining important content for the appropriate length of time is necessary to satisfy legal obligations to retain business records; to satisfy regulatory requirements to keep certain types of data, sometimes indefinitely; and to permit access to older data in a centralized content repository that will make it easy for IT, end users and others to meet their content requirements. As well, there are other benefits associated with archiving electronic content, including the ability to make email and other application servers more efficient by offloading older content, speeding backup and recovery processes, and improving an organization’s disaster preparedness and their ability to maintain the continuity of the business after natural disasters, power outages and the like.

The Green Grid recommends techniques to measure energy use

A group of organisations led by The Green Grid has recommended a standard way for data centres to measure their Power Usage Effectiveness, aiming to bring consistency to the metric and make it easier for different facilities to compare their results.

Companies have three months to register to avoid £5,000 fine

Just 651 companies have registered as participants for the Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy Efficiency Scheme as of 5 July, well below the 5,000 that the Environment Agency is expecting.

Coping with the complex regulatory landscape

Enterprises face an overwhelming and constantly growing array of compliance mandates that regulate the management and protection of sensitive data against disclosure, theft, and misuse. With numerous laws, regulations, and industry-specific requirements from diverse sources, such as governments and industry standards bodies, becoming compliant can be a costly burden for organisations and is a direct reflection of this complex regulatory landscape.

Dell Solutions E-zine

In today’s economy, companies across Europe are looking for more affordable and more efficient ways to deploy technology. Find out about smart, efficient ways deploy Microsoft Windows 7

Plane stays aloft for 26 hours, reaches height of 28,000 feet

In a major triumph for alternative energy researchers and enthusiasts, an experimental, solar-powered plane Thursday successfully completed a 26-hour flight powered by 12,000 solar cells and sunlight-powered lithium batteries.

TPC-Energy specification measures the power use of HP servers

The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) has added a power efficiency metric, TPC-Energy, to its ongoing roundups of speedy transactional processing systems. Hewlett-Packard is the first participant to use the new TPC-Energy specification, submitting benchmark results of four of its systems.

TPC-Energy measures the power use of HP servers

The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) has added a power efficiency metric, TPC-Energy, to its ongoing roundups of speedy transactional processing systems. Hewlett-Packard is the first participant to use the new TPC-Energy specification, submitting benchmark results of four of its systems.

Identity and access management (IAM) solutions deliver a range of benefits to organisations

US Congressman pushes research into potential health effects of mobiles

A US congressman is set to propose a federal law that would put warning labels on mobile phones, just as San Francisco nears enacting an ordinance that would require retailers to post information about moible phone radiation.

US Congressman proposes a research project to study potential health effects of mobiles

A US congressman is set to propose a federal law that would put warning labels on mobile phones, just as San Francisco nears enacting an ordinance that would require retailers to post information about moible phone radiation.

Application delivery in cloud computing

Cloud computing continues to gain in mindshare and adoption rates as organisations begin to investigate how to best leverage these new deployment models. Whether building out a private cloud, using or building a public cloud, or taking advantage of platform and software as a service, F5 solutions can improve the performance and security of applications and reduce the capital and operating expenses associated with application deployments.

Improve storage efficiency

This paper explores why it is important to have deep insight into your file storage environment, and offers tips on how to develop a storage strategy that best meets your organisation’s needs. It also looks at how storage reporting and capacity forecasting tools can help you create a smarter storage strategy by automating the critically important but time consuming process of data capture and analysis.

Customers set their own rate of consumption

Cisco Systems took another step into the consumer market today by announcing a Home Energy Controller device that homeowners could buy from local utilities to help with energy conservation.

Green controller can cut power consumption

Cisco Systems took another step into the consumer market today by announcing a Home Energy Controller device that homeowners could buy from local utilities to help with energy conservation.

Green controller can cut power consumption

Cisco Systems took another step into the consumer market today by announcing a Home Energy Controller device that homeowners could buy from local utilities to help with energy conservation.

Council failed to correctly dispose of goods and complete right paperwork

Local amenity sites dumping electrical goods and breaching the Waste and Electrical Equipment Directive have cost Plymouth City Council £11,742 in fines and legal costs.

Make working and co-ordination processes more efficient

• How to speed up decision-making processes in projects.
• What you should know for selecting Web conferencing software.
• How you can have a positive impact on the transfer of knowledge and information in the company.
• How to make working and co-ordination processes more efficient using Web conferences.