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The majority of Britons believe eco-friendly technology is important despite the credit crunch, new research reveals. A report published by Global Action Plan and Cisco found that almost three-quarters (70%) of respondents think green ICT is an important part of the campaign to fight global warming and expenditure on eco-conscious technology should not be trimmed.However, 60% of those questioned were unaware of the government’s Greening ICT strategy, which aims to use carbon neutral technology by 2020.

Announced in July 2008, the government’s Greening ICT strategy aims to make the energy consumption of the office estate technology completely carbon neutral in three years’ time.

Source: Cool Earth

Rackspace’s Dallas-Fort Worth facility had “power issues” with its SSL server, bringing sites hosted by its network of cloud servers crashing back to earth. The company also acknowledged a separate power issue affecting the data centre at large. Rackspace acknowledged the problem both on its Twitter account as well as on its status blog. Sometime Monday afternoon Central Time, part of one of Rackspace’s nine data centres suffered a power outage, and then was brought back online around 5:30 PM Central Time. Until about 8:58 PM Central Time, that portion of the data centre, in Dallas-Fort Worth, was transitioning between generator and utility power, Rackspace said on its official blog.

The outages also affected the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) cluster hosted by Rackspace, apparently making e-commerce and other functions that depend on SSL inoperable for Rackspace-hosted sites. That cluster went down Monday afternoon and was restored at 5:03 PM, went down again at 6:11 PM CDT, was restored at 7:01 PM, and then apparently flickered at about 9:48 PM CDT, after which service was restored, the company said on a separate status blog.

Source: PC Mag