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Oracle’s Turning Information into Power report

by Tom Raftery on March 18, 2009 · 2 comments

in smart grid

Oracle released the results of a research report last week called “Turning Information into Power“.
The report had some interesting findings – from the press release:
Americans are concerned about energy costs and show interest in new energy options.

94% are concerned with the energy costs of their primary residence.
95% are interested in receiving detailed information on their [...]

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Why Smart Grids are good!

by Tom Raftery on February 23, 2009 · 6 comments

in demand response

I have made no secret of the fact that I am a big fan of Smart Grids and Demand Response programs (properly rolled out, of course!). I have also spoken at various international conferences propounding the benefits of Smart Grids and Demand Response for quite a while now.
You can imagine my disappointment then when I [...]

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Greenmonk’s Inaugural Cool Award: Fujitsu Siemens

by monkchips on September 25, 2008 · 1 comment

in hardware

A couple of months ago I got the chance to chat with Fujitsu Siemens Computer’s chief technology officer (CTO), Dr Joseph Reger, who leads the company’s sustainability initiatives. We went over a fair amount of ground, but one thing that stuck with me was a new technology that came to the market last month – [...]

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IBM’s Vik Chandra on how software can help reduce your carbon footprint

by Tom Raftery on August 15, 2008 · 3 comments

in Podcast

The IBM Green Data Center in Second Life
[audio:http://media.libsyn.com/media/redmonk/IBM-VikChandraPodcast.mp3]
Episode 2 of the GreenMonk Podcasts – 27 mins 27 secs
My guest on this podcast is IBM’s Vik Chandra. According to IBM Vik
is currently responsible for Market Management and Strategy for IBM software offerings that enable organizations to reduce their energy consumption and environmental impact. IBM’s software group [...]

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Build carbon software efficiently (practice what you preach!)

by Tom Raftery on August 7, 2008 · 4 comments

in softwaredevelopment

Photo Credit ralphbijker
I have been having some very interesting conversations with people in the carbon software sector these last couple of weeks.
The first was with Michael Meehan of Carbonetworks (which I blogged about here) and we discussed their offering which is a “carbon strategy platform”. From my blog post about Carbonetworks:
The app at its most [...]

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Any questions for Vik Chandra?

by Tom Raftery on August 7, 2008 · 8 comments

in podcast questions

Photo Credit oberazzi (Tim O’Brien)
We have started a podcast series here on GreenMonk. As part of the process, when I can, I will be posting ahead of time who I will be interviewing. This will give readers an opportunity to have me put questions on their behalf during the podcast.
The first such interview will take [...]

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