Comments on: Any questions for Vik Chandra?

By: Application Performance Management

Application Performance Management — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 15:10:06 +0000

Only a year late, but I just came upon the podcast. I wanted to say how great the interview was. Would you interview Vik again down the road to ask some follow up questions?

By: IBM’s Vik Chandra on how software can help reduce your carbon footprint at Greenmonk: the blog

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:45:54 +0000

[...] footprint so I invited him to come on the show to discuss this and also to answer questions I solicited from readers of this [...]

By: Uldis BojÄrs

Uldis BojÄrs — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:07:51 +0000

It would be interesting to learn more about what is IBM’s experience and lessons learned in enterprise use of new social media and collaboration tools such as microblogging and virtual 3D worlds.

P.S. Though this question is not directly on the topic of your podcast, I am afraid.

By: Ed Gemmell

Ed Gemmell — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:43:41 +0000

Of the $1 billion IBM said they would invest in Green IT. How much has already been invested (can we see it in the financials?) and how much has been in Software. What do you have to show for the $1billion so far?

By: Jim Hughes

Jim Hughes — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:16:26 +0000

I see plenty of power management software going into desktop and laptop PCs (clock slowing, fans that run only when necessary etc.), but precious little into servers.

As many enterprises appear to be shuffling ever more equipment into noisy, over heating server rooms, surely power (and noise) management should be a big issue here.

Are IBM ignoring servers because they’re hidden away from all but the long suffering sys admins?

By: Jim Spath

Jim Spath — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:57:30 +0000

We’re moving toward more virtualization, currently running IBM AIX on Power5 LPARs, starting to run virtual CPUs, memory, storage and I/O. What are the limiting factors for software licensing in such a landscape? It seems we save money on hardware but pay more for software that could run in different frames.
I think Linux is a partial answer, but there are corporate concerns with having multiple OS images, not to mention uneasiness about GNU and BSD license models.

By: Alan in Belfast

Alan in Belfast — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:43:02 +0000

As CPU/core speeds increase, software has become more and more processor hungry, driving up heat, fan, power etc. Energy efficient machines – even Eee PC 1000s! – start to alter the processor speed to keep power demands down. Are IBM serious about de-bloating their software to make it more light-weight? And do they have any feel for whether that could make a 1% difference or a 20% difference to desktop/laptop/server power usage?

Is it more efficient to build features into hardware or software? A lot of the enterprise monitoring software that gets installed to instrument PCs/servers runs continuously. Better to make lighter hardware modules to do the same? Is there a day when a Linux-on-a-chip (etc) will be embedded in PCs/servers as a more energy-efficient method of performing these tasks? (Bring back the PIC chip!)

By: Chris Dalby

Chris Dalby — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:11:02 +0000

Are there any plans to expand the current cost craze that has hit Hursley? With rising energy and utility costs in general, are there plans to help companies intelligently manage and automate their energy infrastructure using mqtt?