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- Teen mob fights in Galveston continue
- Sustainable IT | Ted Samson | TAG: Sustainable IT standards |…
- Cutting carbon

Teen mob fights in Galveston continue
KHOU – Apr 10, 2007
A female security guard, employed by Blue Moon Investigations, tried to break up a fight, but was assaulted. She suffered a black eye, and a teenager was arrested for assault on a public servant, Moore said. But, that’s not why the company terminated its contract, Moore said. The cinema could only hire security guards on the weekends, and Blue Moon guards wanted full-time work. Moore said the company provided security for Premiere Cinema for two to three years and never noticed any major fights, brawls or riots at the cinema. “If people think that’s bad, they should come work with us at some apartment complexes in Houston,” he said. On March 28, a 16-year-old was allegedly dragged into the brawl that involved 80 teenagers, Courtney said…
On March 28, a 16-year-old was allegedly dragged into the brawl that involved 80 teenagers, Courtney said. He was hospitalized with injuries to his head and swelling to his face and mouth, Courtney said. Blaming the parents That night was the breaking point for Roy Mosmeyer who owns Stewart and 89th Self Storage and lives on the property. Every weekend, he said he hears the commotion, witnesses the fights and watches the teens throw rocks and bottles at his property. On March 28, Mosmeyer heard a Galveston police officer yelling for the teens to get down on the ground. Mosmeyer said he held an unloaded gun on a group of more than 10 teenagers an officer was trying to contain by himself until backup arrived. All 10 were let go when other officers got on the scene, Mosmeyer said.

Sustainable IT | Ted Samson | TAG: Sustainable IT standards |…
InfoWorld – Apr 10, 2007
“Participation from the industry’s leading data center efficiency experts will ensure our continued progress in helping the industry achieve greater data center energy efficiency. “This is where the meat of the Green Grid’s work will take place,” noted Green Grid director Mark Monroe, director of sustainable computing at Sun. Having representation from networking, storage, and end-user companies is essential for the group to meets its goals. From the get-go, the group has wanted to tackle the question of measuring energy-consumption in the data center holistically — from power supplies to processors to servers to cooling to storage to networking gear to applications — rather than in a piece-meal fashion. “You can optimize any one piece of puzzle and still have only a suboptimal solution,” said Green Grid Director Larry Lamers, senior engineering manager at VMware. Among storage vendors now on The Green Grid roster is Copan Systems. Roger Archibald, the company’s vice president of business development, noted that while much of the focus of data-center energy consumption is directed at server usage, storage devices play a major role, sucking up as much as 38% of the power.

Cutting carbon
Australian IT – Apr 10, 2007
"They see that as one of the cards that they want to play, so we are working with them to restructure what they are doing. "Large companies can drive a green agenda, and they’ve got the kind of organisation that is continuously changing. The average small or medium company in Australia is usually working on a four or five year cycle. " Network Appliance marketing and alliances director Mark Heers agrees issues of power availability are the main drivers of energy reduction strategies. "The incremental cost of power is not all that great, but once you need more than you’ve got in your data centre, it’s actually massive," Heers says. "You can look at moving to different grids, but you add extra zeros to your cost. There is growing interest in greenhouse consumption as well…
" Network Appliance marketing and alliances director Mark Heers agrees issues of power availability are the main drivers of energy reduction strategies. "The incremental cost of power is not all that great, but once you need more than you’ve got in your data centre, it’s actually massive," Heers says. "You can look at moving to different grids, but you add extra zeros to your cost. There is growing interest in greenhouse consumption as well. We’ve certainly started to see consciousness of this in requests for tender. " Much of the energy efficiency strategy of EMC, Network Appliance, Hitachi Data Systems and other vendors is based on companies making better use of their existing storage assets to offset the need to purchase more energy-consuming devices. This involves assessing the data itself to understand what needs to be kept at high availability on tier-one storage devices, and what can be stored on less-available systems.