News Roundup

• 67 percent of CIOs in the Asia-Pacific region see Green IT as a key strategic focus.

• A new Gartner report says data centers should turn their server temperatures up to 75 degrees, but monitor potential hotspots.

• Gartner also says that the measurement and monitoring of data center energy use will remain immature through 2011.

• Storage Networking World has announced the finalists in the "Green Computing, Energy Efficiency and the Data Center" category for its annual "Best Practices in Data Storage" program, to be announced next month.

• Belkin releases its "Conserve Surge with Timer" to reduce energy use at workstations by incorporating "always on" and "auto off" power outlets.

• CA and VMware announce the results (free download) of their server virtualization maturity study.

• Verdiem announces its Surveyor PC Power Management Solution is compatible with Windows 7.

• An IDC survey finds energy is still the dominant reason U.S. companies adopt Green IT policies, but it's less of a factor than it was a year ago.

• The U.K. Treasury is buying energy efficient Fujitsu servers as part of a program to make the British government more energy efficient.

• A new survey by CDW reveals that almost a third of small businesses are more likely to invest in Green IT in the coming months, more than any other government or corporate sector.