Corporate strategies to include CEMS

Carbon emission management software, or CEMS, allows organisations to understand how they are using energy and how they are creating emissions, reports Computerworld.

The software is designed to examine which areas or parts of the organisation are the main culprits of carbon emissions and provide information to help companies decide how to improve energy costs and emission output.

Bob Hayward, CTO of CSC Australia and Asia, and AIIA national director, says the ICT industry will see a rise in demand and use of CEMS over the next few years as organisations redevelop corporate strategies that include sustainable technology and ways of doing business.

IBM has added portable modular data centres to its long list of products and services, says eWeek.

Eighteen months after the company released them into the market for testing and production use, IBM has made generally available portable data centres in industry-standard shipping containers.

An IBM Portable Modular Data Centre provides a complete physical infrastructure, including power and cooling systems and remote monitoring, says Steven Sams, site and facilities vice-president for IBM Global Technology Services.

Organisations are more likely to spend their money on investments in private clouds in the next few years despite the many benefits of public cloud infrastructures, according to analyst firm Gartner, states Computing.co.uk.

In a research note, distinguished analyst Tom Bittman argues that private cloud services would provide a stepping stone to public services, with the latter maybe taking decades to mature enough for enterprise use.

“The hype of cloud computing is that existing IT architectures and processes can be simply replaced by the cloud," he added.