In this interview, I talks with Sun's Kevin Schmidt and Suresh Potiny about Sun's Enterprise Service Bus product lines, GlassFish ESB and OpenESB. We start talking about the ESB stack that Sun has built up a provides, including more than just the ESB itself, but the NetBeans based tooling as well. Next, we get into the road-map and plans that Sun has for its ESB stack. Then, we end up discussing the broad market and current context for ESBs, be that fitting into SOA environments, both in the "traditional" sense and then also in the emerging types of SOA architectures Kevin and Suresh are seeing. Finally, we up by discussing some of the additional projects around the ESB like Project Fuji.

Disclosure: Sun is a client and sponsored this video.

Pierre Olivier Carles gave a talk at the it@cork Green IT conference where he discussed two case studies on how virtual worlds can reduce your carbon footprint (and costs). One of the case studies involved Europe’s 2nd largest bank, Credit Agricole.

Sun announced, the other day, the completion of their new data center at Broomfield in Colorado. The data center has a number of notable features including: Greater space efficiency: A scalable, modular datacenter based on the Sun Pod Architecture led to a 66 percent footprint compression, by reducing 496,000 square feet from the former StorageTek campus in Louisville, Colo. to 126,000 square feet; · Reduced electrical consumption: By 1 million kWh per month, enough to power 1,000 homes in Colorado; · Reduced raised floor datacenter space: From 165,000 square feet to less than 700 square feet of raised floor datacenter space, representing a $4M cost avoidance; · Greener architecture: Including flywheel UPS that eliminates lead and chemicals waste by removing the need for batteries, and non-chemical · water treatment system, saving water and reducing chemical pollution; · Enhanced scalability: Incorporated 7 MW of capacity that scales up to 40% higher without major construction; · Innovative cooling: The world’s first and largest installation of Liebert advanced XD cooling system with dynamic cooling controls capable of supporting rack loads up to 30kW and a chiller system 24% more efficient than ASHRAE standards; · Overall excellence: Recognized with two Ace awards for Project of the Year from the Associated Contractors of Colorado, presented for excellence in design, execution, complexity and environmental application. With this in mind I decided to have a chat with Mark Monroe, Sun’s Director of Sustainable Computing to find out more about the data center.

Simon Wardley gives a superb talk on the topics of commoditisation, utility computing and ducks at the it@cork Green IT conference.

George Lee is the economics correspondent for RTE – Ireland’s national broadcaster. In this talk he shows off his Segway(!), talks to global warming, peak oil, CO2 and the pending energy crisis and how they all dwarf the current financial crisis in importance.

Doug Neal is a research fellow for the Leading Edge forum and he addressed the it@cork Green IT conference on moving beyond the 2% solution.

Chris Tuppen is BT’s Director of Sustainability. He addressed the it@cork conference talking about the Smart2020 report.

Great video of John Holdren (Barack Obama’s choice for Science Advisor) addressing the American Response to Climate Change Conference at The Wild Center in Tupper Lake New York June 25 & 26, 2008 www.usclimateaction.org Video copyright of, and courtesy of American Response to Climate Change Conference (www.usclimateaction.org)

During the Telelogic User Group conference down here in Austin I talked with IBM's Neeraj Chandr. We started out talking briefly about the conference itself, specifically Neeraj's keynote. We then talk about the mingling road-maps of the Telelogic and Rational product lines now that they're under one roof.

You may also remember Neeraj from our RSDC discussion, which is worth checking out if you're interested in this topic.

Disclosure: IBM is a client and sponsored this video.

While at the IBM Telelogic User Group in Austin, I had the chance to talk with IBM's Michael Lester, Senior Product Marketing Manager for Focal Point. More so than the core idea of product portfolio management (or, PPM), I ask Michael to tell us how products like Focal Point actually attache dollar signs to things like software all through-out the software life-cycle. That said, we do spend a good chunk of time detailing the inner-workings of a PPM product and what it does for an organization, especially when it comes to planning.

Naturally, Telelogic being part of IBM Rational now, we wrap-up by discussing how Focal Point will fit into the Rational portfolio.

Disclosure: IBM is a client and sponsored this video.

While at the IBM Telelogic User Group meeting in Austin, I had the chance to with Dominic Tavassoli. We spent our time talking about "the software delivery platform." What this means is the collection of processes and tools you'd use to take software from conception, to development, to testing, to release, and back through again. Sort of a "backbone" for the application life-cycle management an organization does. There's also documenting, best practices, and compliance to industry processes and standards to worry about.

As with most Telelogic discussions what's interesting here is to see how these ideas apply to systems programming – where software is usually running in/on a device other than a traditional computer – and how that changes the needs and the desires.

Disclosure: IBM is a client and sponsored this video.