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This post was written by Tom Raftery and was published at IBM acquires Weather.com for Cloud, AI (aaS), and IoT IBM has announced the completion of the acquisition The Weather Company’s B2B, mobile and cloud-based web-properties, weather.com, Weather Underground, The Weather Company brand and WSI, its global business-to-business brand. At first blush this may not seem like an obvious pairing, but…
This post was written by Tom Raftery and was published at Salesforce on track to being the cloud crm provider with the lowest carbon emissions We have highlighted here on GreenMonk often enough what a poor job some cloud companies are doing of making their cloud infrastructure cleaner, and being transparent about their emissions. Against that backdrop, it is heartening to see some more enlightened…
This post was written by Tom Raftery and was published at Epson EcoTank an inkjet printer which doesn t use inkjet cartridges Oh boy, I just love buying inkjet cartridges . Said no-one. Ever. They are expensive, they run out just when we need them most, or worse they clog, and there is never a recycling bin nearby when it is time to dispose of them. So what s the choice? Laser printers? Well, they…
This post was written by Tom Raftery and was published at The future of electric utilities change and disruption ahead The utilities industry has typically been change averse, and often for good reasons, but with the technological advances of the past few years, the low carbon imperative, and pressure from customers, utilities are going to have to figure out how to disrupt their business, or they…
This post was written by Tom Raftery and was published at Flexible Power Alliance develops open source software and standard for smart grid demand management We have been talking here on GreenMonk about energy demand management since early 2008, and our take on it has always been that for demand management to work, it will need to be automated. Unfortunately, finding a decent automated demand…
This post was written by Tom Raftery and was published at What do we do in a world where energy is in abundance? The cost of solar power is falling in direct relation to the amount of solar power modules being produced. With no end in sight to this price reduction, we should soon be in a world where energy is in abundance. Moore s Law, the law which says the number of transistors in computers…
This post was written by Tom Raftery and was published at GreenTouch release tools and technologies to significantly reduce mobile networks energy consumption Mobile industry consortium GreenTouch today released tools and technologies which, they claim, have the potential to reduce the energy consumption of communication networks by 98% The world is now awash with mobile phones. According to…
This post was written by Tom Raftery and was published at Technology is moving us, finally, towards the vision of personalised medicine We attended this year s SapphireNow event (SAP s customer and partner conference) in Orlando and were very impressed with some of the advances SAP and their ecosystem are making in the field of healthcare. Why is this important? Healthcare for many decades now has…
This post was written by Tom Raftery and was published at Equinix rolls out 1MW fuel cell for Silicon Valley data center Equinix is powering one of its Silicon Valley data centers with a 1MW Bloom Energy fuel cell As we have pointed out here many times, the main cloud providers (particularly Amazon and IBM) are doing a very poor job either powering their data centers with renewable energy, or…
This post was written by Tom Raftery and was published at Utilities and change times are changing I attended this year s International SAP for Utilities event in Berlin and despite it s being co-located with the SAP Oil and Gas conference which led to some unfortunate references in the keynotes, it was an interesting event. Some of the numbers I learned at the event were that of SAP s 5,800…