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

Managed Object‘s Dustin McNabb gives us a short overview of the state of CMDB in Managed Objects view, and then does a quick intro explaining the ideas and goals of myCMDB.

Disclosure: Managed Objects is a client and sponsored this screencast.

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.

Back a the IBM zSummit, James also had the chance to talk with IBM's John Shedletsky on a wide range of contemporary mainframe topics, primarily, about using the multi-hosting (to put it in "distributed" terms) abilities that mainframes to bring to drive consolidation benefits. The interesting angles here are that John and James get detailed into much of the "mainframes have been doing it for years" talk that's been going around with the rise of virtualization.

John does a good job of explaining how mainframes have been built, for decades, to be fault-tolerate, scale-up environments. Along they way, he takes the chance to point out similarities to recent efforts like "shipping container computing" and other modern efforts to replicate mainframe functionality.

In this interview, Carbonetworks President and CEO Michael Meehan, explains how Carbonetworks’ carbon platform application helps companies participate in global carbon markets. Carbonetworks helps companies understand whether their carbon is going to be an asset or liability to them today and in the future as companies roll out their carbon strategies.