Monday News Roundup

Happy Labor Day everyone! It may be a holiday in the U.S., but the greentech world continues to turn. Here's the latest highlights:

• VMWare Vice President Raghu Raghuram discusses the future of virtualization and Green IT.

• Reducing bank duplication of data can dramatically improve costs and energy efficiency.

• Qualcomm recently selected Verari's 2009 Green IT Award-winning FOREST containerized data center for an expansion.

• BusinessWeek sees a recovery in tech hiring in 2010, including modest impacts on Green IT.

• Chilean IT service provider Solint expects to have 450-500 corporate customers when it launches a new green data center featuring virtualization.

• The Green Grid and NYSE Euronext will host an industry forum and discussion on the economic impact of data center efficiency on October 2 in New York.

• IBM and Aberdreen Group have launched a new online tool designed for organizations seeking to improve their Green IT capabilities, performance, and ROI.

• VYCON Energy's green-tech UPS has won an award from Consulting-Specifying Engineer Magazine.

• IBM and Metropolitan Community College of Omaha announced a collaboration to offer a first-of-its-kind green data center management degree.

• PSA Peugeot Citroen has selected 3Com's H3C enterprise networking solution to provide green IT capability to the auto maker.

• Fujitsu has added 0-Watt PCs to its proGREEN selection that do not use any electricity while in hibernation, and yet remain administrable.

• The state of Michigan plans to use some stimulus funds to create a massive green data center designed to provide cloud computing to virtually all Michigan state services and agencies.