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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.

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 out what they are, what's running on them, and then gives you the ability to backup and change the network-oriented configuration for each device (it doesn't dip into the application layer, for example, configuring Exchange).

Disclosure: AlterPoint is a client and sponsored this screencast.

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

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.