Strategies for SaaS, Cloud Computing, Governance and Sustainability

While the whole world is grappling with the energy problems and the consequential economic impact, Palm Desert a small city in the Riverside County, with a population of 45,000 people has taken the problem head-on. This desert town with summer temperatures well into the 100’s—and electricity bills into the thousands—is making major headway on its [...]

Seems like the company which claimed it was the Dot in the .com could not muster enough interest or convince IBM to sign on the dotted line.  IBM had reportedly made a $9.40 offer to buy Sun and get its hand on the customer base, MySQL, Java, OpenOffice and other properties which Sun had not [...]

We all know India has always had a history of unfulfilled energy demands, all the new economic advances notwithstanding. The boom has just exacerbated the situation. Now, if you travel across India, you see buildings being constructed all over the country (residential and office). The government, the real estate developers and owners seem to be [...]

I came across this great website LessWatts.org which is a community based project funded by Intel to research and make available various free tips, tools and utilities that help in identifying and reducing power consumption on computers powered by Intel chips. It has specific tips for desktops, laptops and servers. Some of the highlights are [...]

As I was writing about things we could do at home to help environment in my last post – Going Green @ home, I started thinking about things we could do at work For starters, switch off your computers, printers, monitors when you leave after work. While you are at it switch the room/cube light [...]