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.

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.

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….”

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.

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!

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.

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.

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