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• Company size no indicator of Green IT readiness: Survey

  Company size is not necessarily an indication of an enterprise’s ability to deploy Green IT initiatives, according to findings from Fujitsu’s Green IT benchmark research for the financial services industry. In the fourth report undertaken with research partner, Connection Research, Fujitsu surveyed 638 organisations in four countries — the US, UK, Australia and India — looking at areas such as Green IT lifecycle, end-user efficiencies, enteprise and data centre efficiencies, the use of IT in carbon reduction and measurement and monitoring.

• Supercomputer power 'to drive economic growth' in Wales

  Fujitsu has been awarded a £15 million contract for the five-year High Performance Computing Wales (HPC Wales) project.

• Fujitsu poised to invest $80m in datacentres

  Fujitsu New Zealand has had $NZ80 million in funding for two new datacentres, in Auckland and Wellington, approved by its parent through Fujitsu Australia, managing director Stuart Stitt confirms.

• Java EE 7 specification gets unanimous approval

  The specification for the next version of Java Enterprise Edition has been approved unanimously, <a href="http://jcp.org/en/jsr/results?id=5162">according to a posting</a> on the Java Community Process website.

• UK Govt agency cancels multi-million pound Fujitsu desktop contract

  The UK Department for Work and Pensions has confirmed it has cancelled a £330 million (NZ$722 million), six year desktop services deal with Fujitsu, that was signed only one year ago.

• Consumerisation, virtualisation to force business plan rewrite

  CIOs have a tough year ahead with the consumerisation of IT and virtualisation set to force IT leaders to rewrite their business plans, four vendors have claimed.

• Toyota Australia signs up Fujitsu in Cloud migration

  Toyota Australia plans to offer a Cloud-based management system for 200 of its car dealerships nationally as part of an ambitious four-month migration of existing dealers to Fujitsu’s data centres.

• Frucor moves SAP investment into the cloud

  Beverage manufacturer and distributor Frucor is moving its 10-years SAP investment into the cloud.

• Meridian Energy drops TelstraClear from ICT contract

  TelstraClear appears to have been dropped from Meridian Energy&#8217;s $50 million ICT services contract but no one is prepared to comment officially.

• Defence deploys Black Ice to secure mobile comms

  Locally developed communications technology played a key role in Defence&#8217;s contribution to last month&#8217;s international Coalition Warrior Interoperability Demonstration (CWID) exercise.

• Fujitsu"wind-powered" laptop

  Fujitsu is purchasing wind power &quot;green energy credits&quot; for each &quot;FMV Loox&quot; laptop sold in Japan that are equivalent to the amount of electricity estimated to be used by the machine over a four year lifespan.

• Toshiba's HDD buy a good move, analysts say

  With the acquisition of Fujitsu's hard-disk drive (HDD) business, Toshiba will position itself to become a leading contender in the enterprise-class solid-state disk (SSD) drive market, industry observers say.

• Fujitsu to buy Telstra IT division

  Telstra is selling its IT services subsidiary, Kaz, to Fujitsu for $A200 million (NZ$256 million).

• Toshiba to acquire Fujitsu's hard-drive business

  Toshiba and Fujitsu have signed a provisional agreement under which Toshiba will acquire Fujitsu's loss-making hard-disk drive business.

• Fujitsu wins $4m Labour deal

  The Department of Labour has selected Fujitsu to manage many of its servers and related infrastructure and services.