Energy efficiency is expected to be critical to future profitability of manufacturers and power utilities, according to a survey.

Securing a virtual environment means more than just policing its entry points, says Marc Meulensteen, Cloud Security Expert, Spirent Communications.

Evcco’s HFT conduit is a halogen-free, fire-retardant and temperature-resistant plastic conduit that would be as robust as galvanised steel but as easy to work with as PVC.

Scientists at the University of California have come up with a software and sensor-based solution that helps reduce energy usage.

Helping flood-affected company G&D Mechanical get back on its feet

Project: To help flood-affected company, G&D Mechanical, get back on its feet
Solution: Queensland Electric Training’s ‘Helping the helpers’ campaign

While service providers fret about the end of IPv4 addresses, how should the enterprise IT team prepare for IPv6? Alan Way International Business Development Manager at Spirent Communications explains

All over the world building issues lead to court cases. The biggest challenge in finding out the truth is to obtain solid facts. In many cases related to building issues, thermal imaging cameras can provide exactly the kind of information needed to draw the right conclusions.

National Manufacturing Week 2011 is a week-long event co-located with Austech, and it is the only fully integrated annual manufacturing exhibition showcasing the latest products and constantly evolving technologies in the expanding manufacturing market. Plans for this year’s event include co-located shows, an expanded seminar program and solid marketing strategy.

A lot of people who work in the data centre industry have allowed themselves to develop a bad habit - they think like real estate agents. But this bad habit can be broken, and we don’t need nicotine patches or hypnosis to do so. All we need is to do stop thinking about data centres in real estate terms.

‘Being green’ is a catch-phrase everyone seems to use these days. But it means different things to different people, depending on what’s important to them. ‘Earth Hour’ involves turning off lights to highlight electricity wastage; the automotive industry wants to curb the amount of pollution from cars on the road; while the waste industry wants us to recycle more and put less into landfill. But what does it mostly mean to the electrical industry?

Regulatory impact statements (RIS) published with new regulations in Australia generally state that mandatory changes of any kind are carefully scrutinised before they are imposed, to minimise their impost on both industry and the community. That situation is true with regard to electrical regulations, where most mandated requirements revolve around electrical safety. Few mandatory energy-efficiency regulations are enforced upon us.

Commercial property is in a particularly tough place these days - not only is it suffering as a whole from the downturn in the economy, but radical changes are being asked of the industry in how it develops and manages property and how it measures success. Among those requested changes are calls for more energy efficiency, given that commercial buildings typically consume 40+% of Australia’s energy output, which emits significant volumes of CO₂.

Hewlett-Packard (HP) specialises in developing and manufacturing computing, data storage and networking hardware, designing software and delivering services. According to Brian Gregory, the HP Networking Account Manager for Qld and NT Universities, the ANZ University community, led by CAUDIT, wished to carry out a proof of concept that would confirm the suitability of HP networking equipment to be used within a university campus LAN environment. The tests to be carried out were determined by a collective of IT engineers across a number of universities with multiple protocols, as well as performance, due to capacity expansion upwards of 10 GB.

The European Parliament completed its first reading of the draft of RoHS II in November 2010 and the publication of the directive is expected in the first half of 2011.