energy in comment and analysis
Outsourcing: UK carbon control plan needs a rethink
Comment In the subsequent years, emission allowances will have to be purchased for energy usage, while those organisations that do not comply with the scheme will face punishment in the form of scalable fines. [01 Dec 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: How the telcos could save themselves
Comment Moving to IP architectures and away from MPLS will reduce equipment stacks, energy costs, staffing, maintenance and real estate needs. It also means huge reductions in people, plant and truck roll, plus... [23 Nov 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 20.11.09
Round-Up To top it all off, half of the IT workers who responded to the study claimed they drink energy drinks every single day. Wheezing. Coughing and spluttering. Unable to complete basic tasks without falling over. [20 Nov 2009]
Virtualisation: Real-life tales of how to get it right
Comment John Tuccillo, chairman of the board for The Green Grid, a confederation of end-user and vendor organisations focusing on energy efficiency, believes companies have begun to realise that virtualisation isn't the panacea... [20 Nov 2009]
Going green: A guide for CIOs
Comment Most organisations report only high-level green metrics, such as overall or function-wide energy consumption. And most focus on energy efficiency. However, the IT department then runs the risk of... [21 Oct 2009]
John Chambers
AS Profile Famous for running around the stage during keynotes, Chambers is not standing still on the business front either - one adjacent market he's eyeing up is energy via the use of smart grid technology, something that has the... [08 Oct 2009]
Acorn co-founder on the BBC Micro and the early days of personal computing
Comment He envisages a future where networks of sensors will give us our total individual energy consumption and where computing power could be delivered remotely from large datacentres powered by renewable energy. [07 Oct 2009]
Ray Kurzweil
AS Profile Of course Kurzweil is not without his critics - and not everyone shares his sci-fi vision of an "augmented reality future" - but his energy and drive are undeniable. Ray Kurzweil is a futurist who's been thinking up the... [29 Sep 2009]
Craig Venter
AS Profile Current projects to bio-engineer a sustainable energy solution were flagged for particular praise by one Agenda Setters judge. Craig Venter is an American scientist colloquially known as the father of genomics. [29 Sep 2009]
How green credentials are shaping IT contracts
Comment As most of us know, manufacturing IT equipment produces a significant carbon footprint; using technology is energy-intensive; and, following a typically short life, huge amounts of electrical equipment become landfill. [10 Sep 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Software - keep it short and sweet
Comment Thousands of features have gone unnoticed and unused, while hard drives have had to grow from megabytes to gigabytes, and operating speeds have tended to stabilise or slow down despite the increased power and energy... [07 Sep 2009]
IT essential for businesses' green success
Comment No, it's expressed in business terms: "We must slash our energy bills. David Tebbutt offers energy-saving tips for IT managers. To be fair, we have seen a lot of enthusiasm for virtualisation in recent... [19 Aug 2009]
Business in the 21st century: Stay tuned for brave new world
Comment The web isn't really about technology, it's about connecting people - our knowledge, ideas, energy and efforts. It's easy to greet talk of change in business with a weary sigh. For more than two decades, a succession of... [11 Aug 2009]
On a new Voyager, tackling fraud and the intellectual challenge
Comment Much of Stafford's energy is dedicated to Nationwide's Voyager business transformation project which, Stafford said, "will replace the core transaction and ledger systems in addition to other systems that support the... [06 Jul 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: We have plenty of radio spectrum
Comment The wireless energy in the range 0 to 1GHz is approximately the same as that in the range 1 to 10GHz, and again in the 10 to 100GHz range. So, for weeks I have been scanning 150kHz to 1GHz and counting the 25kHz channels... [09 Jun 2009]
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