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Save Tom’s not tonnes!

The average European creates 10 tonnes of CO2 per annum. The average American, 20 tonnes. To avert the dangers of Climate Change, we need to drop our CO2 production to 1 tonne per person. Problem: What is 1 tonne of CO2? How do you visualise it? Answer: You don’t! You change the metric. 1 tonne […]

Telelogic, Jazz, and Rational in 2008 - Scott Hebner

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OpenSolaris 11.08 Demo with Tim Cramer

Having talked about the development of OpenSolaris and discussing some of it’s features (see part one for that), Tim Cramer sits us down for a short demo of OpenSolaris 11.08.
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Tim Cramer on OpenSolaris 11.08

While at Sun recently, I talked with Tim Cramer about the recent 11.08 release of OpenSolaris. We discuss how the development cycles is geared towards more frequent releases, and then discuss some of the highlights of the 11.08 feature.
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GreenMonk talks Eco Labels with Fujitsu Siemens Dr Bernd Kosch

Fujitsu Siemens made an announcement last week about the new Eco Label they are launching for their goods. I was interested in learning more so I invited their head of Green IT, Dr. Bernd Kosch to come on the show to discuss.
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GreenMonk interview with Vint Cerf

Vint Cerf was in the offices of Google.org today. Google.org is the non-profit arm of Google. We talked to him about Google.org’s interests in Energy, funding for SMEs in developing countries and disease incidence prediction. Watch out for the lights going out in the middle of the interview on Vint. In Google’s offices the lights […]

it@cork pre-conference podcast with Pierre Olivier Carles

Pierre Olivier Carles from French Co. Stonefield Inworld has come up with some innovative ways for companies to save money and reduce their carbon footprint. He will present 2 case studies in his talk: 1. How Credit Agricole (Europe’s largest bank) have reduced their travel spend using his solution (b2b) and 2. How e-commerce can […]

it@cork pre-conference podcast with Gavin Starks of AMEE

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.
In this episode, we interview founder and CEO of AMEE, Gavin Starks - unfortunately Gavin was at […]

Smart Gird management software

One of the key challenges for any new technology, like Smart Grids, is finding intelligent ways to manage it. At the SAP for Utilities conference, I spoke to Krishna Kumar of Space-Time-Insight and he demonstrated their Smart Grid management software. I was impressed at the way the software reported at the city/block/individual residence level!
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GreenMonk interviews SAP’s Stefan Engelhardt about SAP’s vision for Smart Grids

I met with Stefan Engelhardt, SAP’s Head of Industry Business Unit Utilities at the recent SAP for Utilities conference in San ANtonio, TX. We discussed SAP’s vision around decarbonisation, Smart Grids and Smart Meters. What was pleasantly surprising to me was the amount of interest in Smart Grids from utilities that SAP are seeing.
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