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• Datacentre boom brings Enlogic to Australian market

  Power Distribution Unit (PDU) vendor, Enlogic, has set up operations in Australian to capitalise on the booming datacentre market.
  

• Businesses focused on making virtualisation more energy efficient: Eaton

  There are market observers predicting doom and gloom for 2013, but that is not a reflection of what is actually taking place in the market, according to Eaton Industries power quality marketing manager, Michael Mallia.

• Viridity's power management tool aims to boost efficiency

  Startup Viridity Software is releasing a new tool on Monday to help companies keep track of the power being used by each piece of IT equipment in their data centers, with a view to improving energy efficiency.

• Could Bloom Box revolutionize power industry?

  A Silicon Valley start-up is getting ready to unveil an energy device this week that executives say could one day power individual homes and businesses while replacing the traditional power grid.

• Copenhagen Countdown Part 1: Power Management

  In the lead up to Copenhagen, Computerworld spoke with CSC CTO and National Director of the Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA), Bob Hayward, Fujitsu's director of sustainability, Alison O'Flynn, about the top five technologies that could help organisations and individuals reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions.

• Primus outage highlights data centre fragility

  More mission-critical IP telephony and business computer systems are being hosted in data centres but two recent outages at Equinix and Primus raise new questions about their inherent reliability.

• Research could instantly wake shut-down laptops

  Researchers have developed a technology that could allow laptops to wake up instantly from a shut-down state without draining battery life the way sleep states do.