Friday, April 29, 2011

Oil giant to buy $1.4B stake in SunPower | Green Tech - CNET News

Like many kids, I was slow to take my dads advice. In the same way as I've grown older I've also come to the realization that he knows a lot. In fact, he has not been wrong about much. Like, he saved me from the Dot.bomb He also saw our most recent recession ahead of time. I give him credit, he reads a lot. Like stuff that would make most people cry. he is reading the biographies of all the presidents currently.

Recently while vacationing with him he said something that really hit home for me. He said, "there will be plenty of jobs in the future for those who are involved with the green technologies" I agree. Technology is obviously a big part of that. So what part will it play?

Already I'm working with customers to keep their data centers cooler and have them use less power. I'm helping companies put more and more on the same data pipe and optimize their use. What will the future hold? How is the attached article related to this conversation? I think that technology and green are designed for each other. We can monitor our power consumption with technology to : use less gas in our hybrid car, run our laundry at non-peak power times and turn down the heat at night....thats just for starters.

I'm excited to see major power companies embracing the green power sources. I'm exited to see the day when carbon footprint is also a cost that is calculated. Basically I think we face an exiting future of endless possibilities. As long as we face it with courage and innovation.

Oil giant to buy $1.4B stake in SunPower | Green Tech - CNET News

Friday, April 15, 2011

Private or public cloud?

What is the difference anyway?

Public :someone else owns it and you rent space that you share with the other renters

Private: you can own it and or rent it but don't share it with the other renters

What is Cloud Computing?

Cloud computing is defined by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology as follows:
“Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable
computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and
released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction .”
Essentially, cloud computing is the provision of IT services that are on-demand and network accessible, using flexible pooled resources
that are simple to deploy and expand, with a low up-front, pay-asyou-go cost model. Cloud computing is typically delivered with
a combination of commodity hardware, virtualization, management.

I'm convinced that not all of our IT infrastructure will end up in the cloud. One of the main advantages of the whole "Cloud" idea is to have
applications and servers share resources. The advantage is that we can build more highly redundant hardware underneath the applications that we rely on.

My father who has been very successful investing in the stock market told me that when you see everyone jumping in that is when you should be thinking about jumping out. Thats not exactly how I feel about the cloud but it makes me think. What are the cloud providers not telling us? What have we not discovered or experienced that would make us more cautious? or make us ask better questions? Thats why I feel there is a lot of merit to the products we see coming out like the new HP servers. They are scalable and make the appropriate use of Memory, Processor, Disc, Power and cooling. The other important part. You can own your cloud.

both solutions have merit for the different types of customers out there. Right now I'm just trying to make sure I've got a handle on what all the options really are.  I'm pulling back a bit as I see more products coming to the market.

http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/DS_00168/DS_00168.pdf


Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Monday, April 11, 2011

Microsoft takes its ERP technology to the cloud | Microsoft - CNET News

As I work with many different companies on their Infrastructure. Many have Dynamics embedded into their business but want to take it to the cloud. It looks like Microsoft is paying attention.

Microsoft takes its ERP technology to the cloud | Microsoft - CNET News

Friday, April 8, 2011

Amazing use of technology

Check out this really cool new use of technology.  With our world becoming flatter and solutions coming from a world wide economy I believe this kind of technology will take off.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20051924-1.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20