Climate change

Saas as a sustainability play

July 17, 2009 Cloud Computing/SaaS

The other day I had a quickfire Twitter conversation with Tom Raftery, Greenmonk’s sustainability analyst. He was saying he’d not seen evidence of the impact of green data centres. I’m on the fence regarding the global warming stuff but that doesn’t mean we should ignore the obvious imperative to conserve resources. This is one of [...]

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Should the climate change agenda influence our thinking?

June 9, 2009 Marketing

Over the weekend I wrote a piece on ZD Net that asks whether IT investments should be influenced by the popular CO2 theories of climate change. I wrote the piece because I had seen alternative theories that suggest the science underpinning the CO2 argument is flawed. There then followed a lively Twitter stream (see example [...]

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Huge news: Richard Murphy at G20

March 19, 2009 General

There are few things more satisfying in life than to see someone you’ve encouraged become recognized. I count Richard Murphy in that group. Check this post from Richard: G20Voice is part of an ongoing project that gives you the chance to participate, engage and influence leaders from governments, the business world, international institutions and other [...]

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The dangers of being an evangelist

September 25, 2008 General

I don’t know about you but I detest ‘evangelist’ as a secriptor for people who handwave and bang the drum for anything new. It has connotations of over-reaching zeal that I personally find grating. Even so, it is a term that has gone into common IT vendor parlance so there it little to be done. [...]

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