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bit miles

Paul Krugman talks about the rise of Bit Miles

by monkchips on June 6, 2008 · 0 comments

in bit miles

Paul Krugman is a famous NY Times columnist. I did a double take when I saw the title of a recent piece: Bits, Bands and Books. He is talking our language:
Bit by bit, everything that can be digitized will be digitized, making intellectual property ever easier to copy and ever harder to sell for more [...]

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Is SaaS Green?

by Tom Raftery on May 29, 2008 · 7 comments

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Is a hosted app more Green than hosting your own? Is Software as a Service (SaaS) more environmentally than the more traditional models?
I contacted a number of SaaS vendors (who, admittedly, may have a vested interest in this!) but the answers were a resounding yes.
Chris Yeh, for example, from PBWiki did some quick back of [...]

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IPv6: Towards a Greener Internet

by monkchips on May 9, 2008 · 0 comments

in bit miles, co2, datacenter, energy demand management, footprint, global warming, transportation

As you probably know by now, we’re very interested in the idea of what might constitute a green API or protocol, so I was very interested when I received a link via twitter from @Straxus (Ryan Slobojan).
The Aon Scéal? (That’s Any News in Gaelic) blog by Alastrain McKinstry points to this piece by Yves Poppe [...]

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McAfee goes Green in Vegas!

by monkchips on April 24, 2008 · 5 comments

in bit miles, co2, global warming, sustainability, transportation

So it appears you can go green in Vegas, beyond all my cynicism and that of others. I just came across some really interesting news from McAfee about its approach to greener conferences in that benighted location.
“Greening Kickoff,” an innovative project to minimize, rigorously measure and offset the environmental impact of a large corporate event [...]

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IBM, Big Green, Rational and Eco-aware Programming

by monkchips on February 12, 2008 · 8 comments

in bit miles, softwaredevelopment

I am at an event at IBM South Bank looking at some data center futures. The current session is with Christopher O’Connor, vice-president strategy and market management, Tivoli, who just raised an issue that I have been thinking about a lot lately. Just what will it mean to develop greener software? What would a green [...]

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Bit Miles: How Company Reports Hurt the Planet

by monkchips on February 8, 2008 · 3 comments

in bit miles

Just after introducing the idea of “Bit Miles” I went to a great session by David Douglas, who heads up Sun’s eco-efforts. I could have got about 50 greenmonk posts out of his one hour session, but to just call out one insight we should applaud Sun’s decisions to get out of the needless dead [...]

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