Zen of IT

What if today was your last day on this earth? Have you taken time to smell the roses?

It's so simple you wonder why no one has done it before. A pallet turns up with a box, flat packed. You simply set up the box, fill it with your unwanted IT equipment, make a call and then it gets picked up and disposed of meeting all government requirements. All for one simple cost. Environmental disposal made easy from GreenBox and Seric Systems. Click to download pdf information.

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Please donate your old mobile phones and ink cartridges to CHAS to support them in the excellent work in caring for terminally ill children in Scotland. http://www.recyclingappeal.com/chas/

CartridgeWorld has been going for years but many people still don't use them. Instead of throwing away your old printer ink cartridges, get CartridgeWorld to refill them. This saves waste and saves you money. They can even deliver to you. To find your nearest CartridgeWorld, click here

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Under the Trees4Scotland initiative Seric Systems IT are maintaining their Green agenda by planting a tree for every new business that signs up to their IT support contract. You can benefit from a single, low, monthly charge to support your IT needs and be sure that you are investing in future generations. Seric Systems will also plant a tree every year on contract renewal. www.seric.co.uk
Or - why not just plant your own tree or give one as a gift? www.teaghlachwood.com/plant-some-trees

Why not donate your old PCs to charity? By doing this via Computer Aid you can be sure that you comply with WEEE regulation, that your data is securely removed (although if you have your own IT resource I recommend doing this internally) and that anything suitable will be provided for charity.

Lots of big companies, like Virgin use this service too. All you have to do is to arrange for delivery to London.

http://www.computeraid.org

Joanne Cummings has written an interesting piece on Storage Area Networks (SAN). She has some insightful views that I hold too about are we storing too much data. The part about storing data on paper being more effecient is amzing, who would of thought that?

Joanne goes on to talk about the future of Storage Area Networks, siting a few specific products but there are others available in the market. What I want you to continually say to yourself while looking at your storage is, Do we really need this data? Am I storing this in an efficient way? Am I just pushing a problem a few months down the line?

http://www.networkworld.com/supp/2009/ndc1/012609-storage-rethink.html

The sky is the limit with Windows Skydrive. An amazing 25GB of online storage and sharing for FREE!

http://skydrive.live.com

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