Michael Dell, Chairman and CEO of the company which bears his name has told the [i]FORTUNE[/i] Brainstorm:Green event that the key to a low-carbon future is Green IT.

Desktone, a provider of “Desktop-as-a-Service” (DaaS), has announced its new Virtual-D Platform - designed specifically to enable service providers to offer hosted, subscription-based virtual desktops.

With an estimated 700,000 laptops stolen every year, data security concerns still plague the IT industry. With this in mind, Fujitsu has introduced what it claims is the world’s most advanced full-disk laptop hard drive encryption technology.

Hitachi Data Systems has unveiled what it has dubbed the industry’s greenest enterprise data centre in Yokohama, Japan.

IBM has given its data storage and de-duplication capabilities a leg up with the acquisiting of the storage specialist Diligent Technologies.

Channelling Jurassic Park, Western Digital has announced its new VelociRaptor, dubbing it the world’s fastest SATA hard drive.

Data Domain has joined all the cool storage cats and become a member of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), and in particular a founding members of the association’s data deduplication and space reduction group.

Big blue has announced that it is expanding its SMB efforts and is aiming to help small and medium sized businesses gain faster access to integrated business solutions that are easier to acquire, implement and manage.

As the solid state disk (SSD) market hots up the knives are coming out, with Seagate claiming SSD manufacturer has infringed on a number of its patents. STEC has now responded saying Seagate’s claims are without merit.

Xerox has released a new survey which reveals the top 10 environmental pet peeves of office workers.