RSC YH EVENT: Virtualisation - An Online Primer (FREE)

August 5th, 2008 | Connectivity, Events (All), Events (RSC YH), FE & Skills, Further Education, Higher Education | No comments

Virtualisation - An Online Primer
Friday 10th October 2008
Venue: Your Desk! (Online event)
14:00 - 15:00
Virtualisation aims to maximise the use of resources by hosting multiple virtual servers on one or more physical servers. The benefit of this can be in reduced costs through less power consumption, less required space, and less frequent purchase of hardware.
This [...]

The Sustainable Desktop - FREE Event

July 23rd, 2008 | Connectivity, Events (All) | No comments

The Sustainable Desktop?
Achieving Energy Efficient PCs in Universities and Colleges
2 September 2008
University of Sheffield
The JISC-funded SusteIT project is running a workshop on ‘The Sustainable Desktop’ at the University of Sheffield on September 2nd. The event focuses on ways of reducing IT-related energy consumption through computer powerdown; grid computing; procurement of low [...]