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Tweet I gave the keynote address at the Digital Trends 2011 event organised by HePIS and CEPIS in Athens recently. My talk was on Cloud Computing’s Green Potential and in my presentation, I claimed that Cloud Computing is NOT Green. I started the talk by explaining what Cloud Computing is and the many advantages it [...]
By Tom Raftery
– January 9, 2012
Tweet Intelligent water is the latest addition to the IBM Smarter Cities portfolio. in the world’s cities are growing at an astounding rate. For the 1st time in history, over 50% of the world’s population now lives in urban areas. Over 1 million people are moving into cities every week, and it is estimated that [...]
By Tom Raftery
– December 15, 2011
Tweet I gave the closing keynote at the SAP for Utilities conference in San Antonio recently. I requested a video of my presentation, and I had it transcribed so I could post it here. Good afternoon everyone. I’m painfully aware that I am the last thing standing between you and wine tasting, so I’ll try [...]
By Tom Raftery
– October 24, 2011
Tweet I attended an IBM Smarter Cities analyst event last week, and it was, not surprisingly, very interesting. What is the whole rationale behind making cities smarter? Well, there are a number of factors. For one, the world’s population has doubled in the last 40 years (from 3.5 billion to almost 7 billion). And with [...]
By Tom Raftery
– September 13, 2011
Tweet The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) is a not-for-profit organisation which takes in greenhouse gas emissions, water use and climate change strategy data from thousands of organisations globally. This data is voluntarily disclosed by these organisations and is CDP’s lifeblood. Yesterday the CDP launched a new study Cloud Computing – The IT Solution for the [...]
By Tom Raftery
– July 21, 2011
Tweet In the video above, Dave Wright, founder and CEO of SolidFire makes the point that what with ARM-based servers, OpenCompute, etc. there has been a lot of breakthroughs on the computing side of servers, to make them more efficient recently, but very little innovation has happened with storage systems. Predictably he’s gone after storage [...]
By Tom Raftery
– July 7, 2011
Tweet IBM turned 100 earlier this month – a significant achievement for any company, but for one in the constantly shifting sands that is the technology industry, it is particularly notable. As part of the celebrations, they released the video above outlining 100 of their achievements during that time. The video is beautifully executed and [...]
By Tom Raftery
– June 27, 2011
Tweet Energy 2.0 at Visualizar11 View more presentations from Tom Raftery I was asked by the MediaLab Prado to give an updated version of my Energy 2.0 talk at their Visualizar11 – Understanding Infrastructures event in Madrid during the week. I took the opportunity to update the deck with some of the thoughts I presented [...]
By Tom Raftery
– June 17, 2011
Tweet Smart buildings are a topic I’m interested in and so I devote significant coverage to them on this blog. One of the reasons for that is that, for example, in the US alone, buildings are responsible for about 70% of the energy consumption and for about 40% of the greenhouse gases emitted and by [...]
By Tom Raftery
– June 14, 2011
Tweet I attended Google’s European Data Center Summit earlier this week and it was a superb event. The quality of the speakers was tremendous and the flow of useful information was non-stop. The main take home from the event is that there is a considerable amount of energy being wasted still by data centers – [...]
By Tom Raftery
– May 26, 2011
Tweet Ha! No sooner do I criticise HP for being shy about their work on Sustainability than I start to receive all these great links to stuff HP is doing in this space – result! Overnight I received news that HP has opened a new research facility to advance sustainable data center technologies (more on [...]
By Tom Raftery
– March 31, 2011
Tweet I had a chat with some of IBM’s partners – Eaton‘s Dave Davidson and Tridium‘s Marc Petock, at IBM Pulse 2011 about the state of Smarter Buildings, and Smarter Cities today and the requirement for collaboration to achieve their possibilities. Unfortunately I messed up the setup of the camera cutting off my head from [...]
By Tom Raftery
– March 23, 2011
Tweet I had a chat with IBM’s Dave Bartlett while we were both at at Pulse 2011 about the state of Smarter Buildings and Smarter Cities today and their possibilities. I posted the first part of it yesterday – in today’s post, we discuss the future for Smarter Buildings and cities Here’s a transcription of [...]
By Tom Raftery
– March 22, 2011
Tweet I attended a HP analyst summit last week in San Francisco and I have been putting off writing down my impressions of the event because I was, frankly, very disappointed. Writing recently about HP’s announcement of their new Energy and Sustainability Solution, I noted that HP’s new CEO Léo Apotheker’s legacy from his time [...]
By Tom Raftery
– March 22, 2011
Tweet I had a chat with IBM’s Dave Bartlett while we were both at at Pulse 2011 about the state of Smarter Buildings and Smarter Cities today and their possibilities. Here’s a transcription of our conversation: Tom Raftery: Hi everyone! Welcome to GreenMonk TV. I am here with Dave Bartlett. We are at IBM’s Pulse [...]
By Tom Raftery
– March 21, 2011
Tweet Above is a screenshot of one of the slides from HP’s webinar announcing their new Energy and Sustainability Management solution. What is most interesting about it for me is that, front and center there is a focus on Facilities and Buildings. We have already seen that IBM has identified Smarter Buildings as one of [...]
By Tom Raftery
– March 13, 2011
Tweet And here is a round-up of this week’s Green numbers… Progress Energy investing approximately $520 million dollars in smart grid technologies IBM today announced that it has been selected by Progress Energy as the lead systems integrator for the utility’s smart grid program. Together the companies will transform Progress Energy’s networks by improving power [...]
By Tom Raftery
– March 11, 2011
Tweet I attended IBM’s Pulse conference last week and the big surprise for me was the amount of attention being paid to Smarter Buildings and Smarter Cities. With 600+ sessions over six parallel tracks it is only to be expected that there be some Smarter Building content but at this event Smarter Buildings and Smarter [...]
By Tom Raftery
– March 7, 2011
Tweet . Some of the Green announcements which passed by my desk this week: This year’s annual Transmission & Distribution Europe and Smart Grids Europe conference will be held in Copenhagen from 12-14 April. More than 30 utilities, as well as utility experts, regulators and technology giants from all over Europe, as well as the [...]
By Tom Raftery
– January 27, 2011
Tweet IBM recently launched a game called CityOne. I saw this game demo’d when I was at the Smarter Industries Symposium in Barcelona and I promised myself I’d go back and look at it in more detail. This morning I sat down with CityOne and took it for a spin. CityOne is a simulation game [...]
By Tom Raftery
– January 25, 2011
Tweet After I mentioned in this post that JouleX had recently updated their Energy Manager product to version 2.5 and all the extra functionality that brought, I was curious to find out a little more about them. I talked to Tim McCormick, JouleX’ VP Marketing and Sales and Mark Davidson, their Sustainability Officer. I was [...]
By Tom Raftery
– January 19, 2011
Tweet And here are this week’s Green numbers… 2010 ties 2005 for warmest year on record Last year tied with 2005 as the warmest year on record for global surface temperature, US government scientists said in a report on Wednesday that offered the latest data on climate change. The Earth in 2010 experienced temperatures higher [...]
By Tom Raftery
– January 14, 2011
Tweet We had big plans for HomeCamp in 2010, but facts seem to have got in the way. What with Chris joining CurrentCost, and my wife and I having a second child- we didn’t have as much time to apply to the event as it deserved, or the community for that matter. Which is why [...]
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– December 7, 2010
Tweet And here are this week’s Green numbers – shorter than usual presumably ‘cos last week was Thanksgiving in the US: Chinese CDM Fund to Have $1.5 Billion for Clean-Energy Projects by 2012 China CDM Fund, the government body that invests money from carbon credits, will almost double its available cash for renewable energy projects [...]
By Tom Raftery
– December 3, 2010
Tweet Photo credit Argonne National Laboratory Supercomputers are particularly fast computers (often made up of thousands of “off the shelf” computers) typically used for highly calculation-intensive tasks such as climate research, molecular modelling, research into nuclear fusion, etc. The Green 500 is a ranking of the most energy efficient supercomputers measured in Floating Point Operations [...]
By Tom Raftery
– November 29, 2010
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