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  • Smart Grid demo at the SAP for Utilities 08 conference

    I attended the SAP for Utilities conference in San Antonio Tx this year and while there SAP’s Russel Boyer gave me a compelling demo of a Smart Grid in action. I asked him if would do it again for the camera and he generously obliged. [Disclosure - SAP covered my expenses to attend this conference] Formats available:MPEG-4 Video (.m4v), MP3 Audio (.mp3), MPEG-4 Video (.m4v), Flash Video (.flv) Tags: sap, utilities, saputils, greenmonk, redmonk, smart, grid, smart, meter

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  • it@cork pre-conference podcast with Doug Neal

    it@cork are holding their annual conference this year on the theme “Green IT: Reduce CO2, Raise profits” GreenMonk are sponsoring the event and as part of the sponsorship we are interviewing the speakers in the run-up to the conference. Doug Neal, research Fellow at The Leading Edge Forum is this week’s guest. Formats available:MPEG-4 Video (.m4v), MP3 Audio (.mp3), MPEG-4 Video (.m4v), Flash Video (.flv) Tags: itcork, leading edge forum, greenmonk, redmonk, green it

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  • Simon Wardley previews his talk for the it@cork conference

    GreenMonk/RedMonk are sponsors of the it@cork Green IT conference. Tom Raftery interviewed Simon Wardley about the presentation he will be giving at the conference entitled “Situation normal, everything must change….” Formats available:MPEG-4 Video (.m4v), MP3 Audio (.mp3), MPEG-4 Video (.m4v), Flash Video (.flv) Tags: itcork, simon wardley, tom raftery, greenmonk

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  • GreenMonk talks CSR, GRC and other TLA’s at SAP TechEd 08!

    We got together with Marilyn Pratt from SAP, Linda Bortolus, also from SAP and Jim Spath from Black & Decker at the SAP TechEd 08 conference in Berlin. We discussed corporate social responsibility (CSR), global risk and compliance (GRC) and sustainability. The discussion was led by RedMonk/GreenMonk co-founder James Governor. Formats available:MPEG-4 Video (.m4v), MP3 Audio (.mp3), Flash Video (.flv) Tags: sap, sapteched08, grc, csr, sustainability, greenmonk

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  • Jim Spath talks to RedMonk/GreenMonk

    Jim Spath gave a talk at the SAP TechEd 08 conference on supply chain’s environmental impacts. We decided to have him come on GreenMonk TV to discuss his talk with us. Formats available:MPEG-4 Video (.m4v), MP3 Audio (.mp3), Flash Video (.flv), MPEG-4 Video (.m4v) Tags: sapteched08, sap, supply chain, environmental impact

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  • GreenMonk talks to SAPs Craig Cmehil about efficient code and Green Hacker night

    At the SAP TechEd 08 conference in Berlin, I had a chance to sit down with SAP’s SDN community evangelist, Craig Cmehil and we talked about the definition of good code (maximum functionality in the minimum CPU cycles with the smallest file footprint) and how this is Green. We then got SAP to commit to holding a Green hacker night! Formats available:MPEG-4 Video (.m4v), MP3 Audio (.mp3), MPEG-4 Video (.m4v), Flash Video (.flv) Tags: sap, sdn, sapteched08, green, hacker, night, [...]

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  • GreenMonk and Sun’s Director of Sustainable Computing, Mark Monroe

    Formats available:MPEG-4 Video (.m4v), MP3 Audio (.mp3), Flash Video (.flv) Tags: greenmonk, tom raftery, sun, sun microsystems, mark monroe, sustainable computing, data center

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  • SAP’s Craig Cmehil talks to James Governor at SAP TechEd 08

    James Governor caught a few minutes of Craig Cmehil’s time at SAP TechEd08 in Berlin to discuss Hacker Night, Rails in ABAP (!) and some upcoming products from SAP. Formats available:MPEG-4 Video (.m4v), MP3 Audio (.mp3), Flash Video (.flv) Tags: sap, sapteched08, abap, rails, erp

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  • ZipTie Demo, Part 2 – Jobs, Topology, Extending

    Michael gives us an overview of ZipTie, including it's origin and how it ties into AlterPoint's commercial product, Network Authority. Ryan then jumps in to show us the initial discovery, admin setup, and poking around in the resulting inventory. Background: A little while ago, I sat down with ZipTie's Michael Nels and Ryan Kruse for a detailed demo of ZipTie, the open source network inventory and configuration management tool. That is, ZipTie scans all the devices on your network, figures [...]

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  • ZipTie Demo, Part 1 – Overview, Discovery, Inventory

    Michael gives us an overview of ZipTie, including it's origin and how it ties into AlterPoint's commercial product, Network Authority. Ryan then jumps in to show us the initial discovery, admin setup, and poking around in the resulting inventory. Background: A little while ago, I sat down with ZipTie's Michael Nels and Ryan Kruse for a detailed demo of ZipTie, the open source network inventory and configuration management tool. That is, ZipTie scans all the devices on your network, figures [...]

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  • GreenMonk Interview with Rob Bernard, Microsoft’s Chief Environmental Strategist

    In this interview we talked to Microsoft’s Chief Environmental Strategist, Rob Bernard. We discussed how large organisations can reduce their environmental footprint, using Microsoft’s own example; we discussed how Microsoft software is helping companies reduce their carbon footprint and we discussed how Microsoft is helping research into Climate Change Formats available:MPEG-4 Video (.m4v), MP3 Audio (.mp3), Flash Video (.flv), MPEG-4 Video (.m4v) Tags: microsoft, rob bernard, greenmonk, carbon footprint, climate change

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  • myCMDB Overview with Dustin McNabb

    Managed Object‘s Dustin McNabb gives us a short overview of the state of CMDB in Managed Objects view, and then does a quick intro explaining the ideas and goals of myCMDB. Disclosure: Managed Objects is a client and sponsored this screencast. Formats available:MPEG4 Video (.mp4), Flash Video (.flv), MP3 Audio (.mp3)

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  • myCMDB Demo

    Managed Objects' Abbas Haider Ali gives us a demo of myCMDB itself. He first highlights the main page with the tag cloud, communties, and activity stream. Then we get into navigating the relationships between each of the items the CMDB tracks and look over the reporting options that myCMDB provides. Disclosure: Managed Objects is a client and sponsored this screencast. Formats available:Quicktime (.mov), MP3 Audio (.mp3), Flash Video (.flv), MPEG-4 Video (.m4v)

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  • Mainframe Economics, interview with John Shedletsky

    Back a the IBM zSummit, James also had the chance to talk with IBM's John Shedletsky on a wide range of contemporary mainframe topics, primarily, about using the multi-hosting (to put it in "distributed" terms) abilities that mainframes to bring to drive consolidation benefits. The interesting angles here are that John and James get detailed into much of the "mainframes have been doing it for years" talk that's been going around with the rise of virtualization. John does a good [...]

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  • GreenMonk interview with Carbonetworks’ Michael Meehan

    GreenMonk interview with Carbonetworks’ Michael Meehan

    Click to Play In this interview, Carbonetworks President and CEO Michael Meehan, explains how Carbonetworks’ carbon platform application helps companies participate in global carbon markets. Carbonetworks helps companies understand whether their carbon is going to be an asset or liability to them today and in the future as companies roll out their carbon strategies. Formats available: MPEG-4 Video (.m4v), MP3 Audio (.mp3), Flash Video (.flv) Tags: carbonetworks, michael meehan, tom raftery, greenmonk, redmonk, carbon strategies, carbon software, carbon platform

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