This week in Green IT: Much ado about nothing

Ah, “Green IT.” Everyone is talking about it, companies are trying to get “with” it and the press is having a feeding frenzy over it. But who is actually implementing green technology in the enterprise?

Well, Google, for one. The Mountain View, CA-based company currently has greater energy needs than, well, just about anyone and those power requirements are only going to increase. To that end, Google has launched a green initiative that will see the company drawing some …

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Oracle exploits coming at Black Hat DC 2007

Looks like Oracle is going to be taken to task for security yet again. At Black Hat DC 2007, starting tomorrow here in the nation’s capital, major Oracle exploits are set to be unveiled during two Oracle-centric presentations: “Advanced Oracle Attack Techniques” with security researcher David …

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TJX Data theft went undetected for seven months

You may have read about a recently-discovered data breach at TJX–the parent company of T.J. Maxx, Marshalls and Bob’s Stores–that compromised the personal information of an unknown number of North American customers, including credit card info. What you may not have heard is that while the data theft was discovered last month, it actually occurred last May and went undetected for seven months. While the scope of the theft remains unknown, the company claims that the number of affected …

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Sun to resume sales of Intel Xeon-based servers

It looks as if the Intel/AMD server wars of years past have finally been resolved. While the past few years have found the four tier-one server manufacturers switching between x86 chips from the two manufacturers, it appears as if a consensus has finally been reached: why not use both? Sun Microsystems has announced that it will become the last of the tier-one manufacturers to sell both AMD and Intel-based servers, by adding Intel-based machines back to its lineup. Sun stopped selling …

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