The Smart Grid concept is getting a boost from the Obama administration in the form of (with matching of private sector funds) approximately $8B capital investment over the next three years. The United States Department of Energy is making a number of Smart Grid publications widely available, and the funding attracted by Smart Grid is [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Convergence'
Smart Grid Jolting IPv6?
November 10th, 2009 · No Comments · Business, Convergence, Data Center, Internet, Power, Wireless
Tags:IPv4·IPv6·Public Utilities·Smart Grid
Data Center Energy Efficiency: Free Webinar
August 15th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Convergence, Data Center, Data Center MEP, Green Data Center, Green IT, IS Security, Mergers and Acquisitions
We’ve discussed the topic of data center energy management in numerous posts, and we’ve talked about a Green Data Center Maturity Model. If the topic of energy efficiency in the data center is of interest to you (and it should be) I’d like to recommend an excellent resource for you.
Cisco is conducting a webinar next [...]
Tags:Cisco·Cisco Data Center·Data Center Code of Conduct·Data Center Efficiency·Data Center Power·Green Data Center·Green IT
New Technology Trends Will Impact Traditional IT Roles
May 28th, 2008 · No Comments · Business, Convergence, Data Center, Disruptors, IS Security, IT Roadmaps, Technology, VoIP
We’ve become fairly comfortable with the structure of our IT organizations, but new trends in technology product development are increasingly challenging these traditional models.
In the traditional (i.e., over the past 10 years or so) IT organization we have roughly aligned the organizational chart with a logical stack corresponding to our data processing footprint. We [...]
Tags:Cisco·Data Center Technology·IT Organizations·IT Roles·IT Services·Utility Computing·Virtualization·VoIP
Privacy and the New Mobile Open Network
May 13th, 2008 · No Comments · Convergence, IS Security, Internet, VoIP, Wireless
The Internet is going mobile. ‘Big news, right? Well, with the open-access provisions attached to the auction of the 700 MHz spectrum, the continued success of open-source public VoIP applications, and open platforms such as Android and OpenMoko, things are really accelerating.
The auction of the 700 MHz spectrum comes with the requirement that the winning [...]
Tags:Acceptable Use Policy·Android·Federal Communications Act of 1934·IS Security·Mobile Devices·Open Networks·OpenMoko·Privacy·Wireless·Wireless Broadband
The Incredible Shrinking Stack
May 12th, 2008 · No Comments · Business, Convergence, Data Center, IT Assessments, IT Roadmaps
The OSI Stack is a subject about which I’ve written and spoken numerous times over the past couple of years. I think there’s some opportunity now to be creative with the notion of a new, contemporary, business-driven, systems stack. This will be the subject of several posts, but let me begin by recapping my idea [...]
Tags:IT/Business Alignment·OSI Model·TCP/IP Stack
Data Center Capacity: Different ways to say the P-word
April 30th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Business, Convergence, Data Center, Technology
In 2006, Amercan data centers consumed more power than American televisions. Collectively, data centers consumed more power than all the TVs in every home and sports bar in America. That really puts a new perspective on it, doesn’t it?
For the past few years, the “P-word” has loomed large in the dialogue around data [...]
Tags:Data Center·Data Center Planning·Data Center Power
Internet Capacity- Circa 2010
April 24th, 2008 · No Comments · Business, Convergence, Internet, Technology, Wireless
By Carrisa Baptiste- Mobile Devices Consultant, Advocate Networks, LLC
It has been years since I’ve used a paper telephone book, I use yellowpages.com. Several of my friends have received their diplomas from online educational institutions. Let’s not forget my eleven year old nephew who has a cellular phone and uses the internet to connect with other [...]
