In this video from the 2008 Telelogic user group meeting, I talk with IBM's Martin Owen. The broad-topic is a discuss using Enterprise Architecture and how it relates to "business/IT alignment." The nitty-gritty gets down to oing lots of reporting, metrics, and telling people what you're up to. Here, the important thing is tailoring your communication to your audience – tech-jargon or biz-speak, depending on which one you're addressing. And how to go in and apply this: baby steps, incremental ROI, and more.

If you like this topic, you'll probably also like my Recession-proof SOA Talk.

Disclosure: IBM is a client and sponsored this video.

While at IBM Software Connect – IBM's annual analyst summit for the software group – James had the chance to talk with IBM's Karen Parrish.

The main focus of the event was IBM's Industry Solution Frameworks and how IBM uses them to with customers. Karen starts telling us about the frameworks and how IBM builds up the program. James then asks several "how's that work?" questions to drive into the details.

Disclosure: IBM is a client and sponsored this podcast.

GreenMonk talks batteries and sustainability with Dr Christina Lampe-Onnerud, founder and CEO of Boston Power

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 = 1 person’s annual CO2 production. 1 average person. 1 Tom. Because it’s not about saving tonnes, it’s about saving everyone. For example, a 15 minute shower is 0.1% of a Tom, driving 100 miles in a standard car is 4% of a Tom and producing 1 laptop computer is 45% of a Tom. How many Toms have you consumed? Don’t waste your Toms. Save Toms, not tonnes!

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.

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.

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.

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 are set to go off automatically if they don’t detect anyone in the room to save money. We got a real-life demo of this during the interview!

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 be made more efficient using his solution (b2c).