Today: IBM tackles smart meter security; Power Assure continues to eke out data center energy savings; and Pike Research expects the PC and server power management software market to hit $783 million annually by 2015. Plus, it looks like St. Louis is undergoing a data center boom of sorts. It helps that the area counts […]
Archives for February 2011
Quit spurning your readers with buggy iPad apps
By now you know that I’m pretty enamored by my iPad, particularly it’s knack for dematerialization. Newspapers? Plenty of apps and the iPad’s own browser deliver my news fix. Magazines? I roll my own, thanks. Life was good. Until last week, when The New York Times iOS app called it quits. No number of resets […]
Smart grid and consumers: Exploring a tough sell
When the Smart Grid Consumer Collective (SGCC) formed last year, it set on a tough and unforgiving road. The parties it represents — utilities and smart grid vendors, for the most part — were the enemy in the eyes of homeowners that saw their electric bills skyrocket soon after smart meters were installed. This led […]
Today’s Ten – Wednesday, Feb. 09
It’s a smart grid kinda Wednesday. Smart Grid News alerts us to the release of the Smart Grid Consumer Collaborative’s State of the Consumer Report. (Come back for some highlights later.) Oracle posted a YouTube videos with Guerry Waters, the company’s utilities guru. And Mashable takes a look at how social media and the smart […]
‘The best strategies consist of 90% listening and 10% activation’ and other social media insights
If you’re having trouble creating a social media strategy centered around your green efforts, I’d like to point you to a couple of pieces in The Guardian that can help set you on the right path. The first is a roundup of highlights from a live Q&A on using social media to communicate sustainability. The […]
Today’s Ten – Tuesday, Feb. 08
In the news today, Landis+Gyr and Mueller Systems team on networking solutions for utilities that provide both electricity and water. Also, Intel snaps up 2.5 billion renewable energy credits; the key to Green IT could be as simple as stopping the practice of overprovisioning IT; and IDC predicts that the cloud management software market will […]
Rumor: Boxed software facing extinction at Apple Stores
Rumor has it that Apple is planning to remove boxed software from its retail stores. How’s that for dematerialization? Can’t say it’s too surprising, coming on the heels of the Mac App Store’s successful debut. In its first day, it attracted 1 million downloads. And for some developers, it has helped drum up sales nicely. […]
Today’s Ten – Monday, Feb. 07
Some interesting stories among today’s collection of Green IT links. First, shrinking state budgets could shave an impact on their ability to attract big data center operators if incentive programs get slashed. It’s a situation that could have a profound effect on North Carolina, which has become the East Coast epicenter of data center growth. […]
Flash cache appliance maker Violin Memory bags $35 million
Flash memory companies continue to rake in the investment funds. Among them is Violin Memory, which today announced that it had raised $35 million in Series B funding led by Toshiba and Juniper Networks. Toshiba, like Samsung, has been seeding the market for its own flash memory chips by investing in startups that are dependent […]
Can green Kickstarter projects succeed?
Kickstarter’s on fire. Notable funding successes include Diaspora, C-Loop and TikTok+LunaTik, the swank watch bands for the new iPod Nano that caused a stir in the blogosphere late last year. Some Kickstarter-funded films even made it to Sundance and two took home honors. The innovative service leverages the web and social media to help artists […]
