Adobe’s HQ in San Jose have a triple LEED Platinum certification (LEED stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leadership_in_Energy_and_Environmental_Design for more). I visited there and was given a tour of the facility by Randy Knox, Adobe’s Senior Director of Global Workplace Solutions.

SAP announced a new Environmental Health and Safety management solution for its clients. I spoke to SAP’s Chief Sustainability Officer, Peter Graf about this announcement

SAP announced their aim to slash their carbon production by 51%. I spoke to Peter Graf, SAP’s new Chief Sustainability Officer, to find out more.

SAP recently created the new role of Chief Sustainability Officer for the company and installed Peter Graf in the position. I had a chat with Peter and asked him about his new job.

While visiting with RedMonk client SolarWinds recently I recorded a super-short interview with Josh Stephens, SolarWinds "Head Geek."

I asked him to go over SolarWinds portfolio of products, define exactly what "network management" is, and then show us a quick preview of their newly announced personal dashboard, Workspace Studio, an addition to the Engineer's Toolkit.

Disclosure: SolarWinds is a client.

Chris O’Connor is VP Strategy & Market Development, Tivoli Software. Chris gave a spectacular demo presentation at Pulse 2009 on energy efficiency in the enterprise. IBM were good enough to give us a copy of his presentation for posting here.

Fujitsu Siemens announced their zero Watt PC today at CeBit. Just to clarify, the PC is zero Watt in standby mode, not while operational! I asked Fujitsu Siemens’ Greet IT Coordinator and Spokesman, Dr. Bernd Kosch to come on the show to talk about the announcement.

What makes the best schwag? How about crap schwag? While at SXSW last year, Coté, Josh Dilworth, and Lauren Sell go booth-to-booth to not just check out the schwag, but analyze and comment on it. Does it work? Where’d it come from? Would you want to get it?

After touring through the booths, we get outside and see the kind of schwag the press gets.

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While at Pulse 2009 last week I had the chance to talk with IBM's Dave Bartlett and Gaston Sandoval about the Industry Solutions Tivoli have been talking about recently. Here, I you get the chance to hear what exactly these Industry Solutions are, go over some examples of them in use, and hear how IBM is creating them.

We start out talking about what the Industry Frameworks are exactly. After going over a broad overview, I ask a low-level question about what makes this possible: is it that "everything" is IP addressable now, on a network? The answer is a nuanced "yes." We then discuss what these frameworks look like in other industries, such as energy, for example, on offshore oil platforms. I then ask what the stack looks like – the boxes and arrows, if you will.

This gets into a discussion of how the team has devised the frameworks, with a mandate to draw on existing technology rather than invent news ones exclusively. We then talk about how IBM gathered up this industry specific knowledge, and how they've been maintaining it. As with all IBM offerings, the topic of cross-brand cooperation comes up as well.

We then go over an example of what this looks like using one of IBM's more popular examples, utility management down to the power-line level and "smart grids." The vision here is to start delivering new services on-top of traditional electricity delivery. Here, the thinking gets into classic open platform theory: if you open up a previously closed platform – a black-box – there's more possibility for innovation on-top of that platform without being threatened by the Innovator's Dilemma.

You might also be interested in this previous interview with IBM's Karen Parrish on the topic. As more background, also see this piece from Dave.

Disclosure: IBM is a client and sponsored this video.

Jonathan Gay is founder and CTO of Greenbox. I was interested to have him on the show to discuss their home energy management software.

While I was at IBM Pulse this year, I had the chance to sit down with Lauren States who's title describes what she does quiet well: Vice President Cloud Computing for IBM's Software Group.

In this brief discussion, we cover several topics:

• Pulse 2009 cloud related product and consulting announcements
• Does Conway's Law apply to cloud setups?
• Mixing public and private clouds – one us it for spilling over peak workload to public clouds – use often begins with testing and QA and spreads closer to production deployments.
• The decision process Lauren has seen companies go through around public vs. private clouds.
• What types of applications – or "work-loads," even – has Lauren seen running on clouds? This gets us into some interesting talk of how verticals might driving cloud use with more tailored, SaaS-delivered applications.
• Cloud computing might drive simplification, standardization, and maybe just "good enough."
• Tailoring the operations vs. the user interfaces for cloud computing – a little more complex for ops people, but much simpler for users.
• The cost savings angle – internal IBM folks used cloud technology to bring costs down 83%.

Disclosure: IBM is a client and sponsored this video.