PC Blade Daily Links 2007-04-03

[Daily Post from ClearCube] PC Blade Daily: When Standards Matter

“If you’re an IT manager, you’ve doubtless had to deal with standards of one variety or another. And you’ve probably reached a conclusion: standards are important, except when they aren’t.”

CIO.com: How Green Data Centers Save Money

“Today, energy experts estimate that data centers gobble up somewhere between 1.5 percent and 3 percent of all electricity generated in the United States.”

VMblog: VMware ‘Jolts’ the Software Development Industry

“VMware Lab Manager automates the setup, capture, storage and sharing of multi-machine software configurations and makes them available on demand to local or remote development and test teams through a self-service portal.”

Computerworld: Microsoft adjusts to add support for thin-client computing

“With its increasingly popular Terminal Services software, which lets users access applications running on corporate servers; its détente with vendors such as Ardence Inc. and ClearCube Technology Inc. that develop products to stream software, including Windows, to end users; and even the rollout of consumer Web initiatives such as Windows Live and Office Live, Microsoft has shown its willingness to cautiously embrace thin-client computing — provided it is on its own, Windows-centric terms.”

Between the Lines: CIOs: IT spending outlook cloudy; Google questionable on enterprise apps

“Chief information officers are cutting back their technology spending outlook for the next 12 months and most of them don’t see Google as an enterprise application provider, according to a survey by Deutsche Bank and CIO magazine.”