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Equinix rolls out 1MW fuel cell for Silicon Valley data center

May 22, 2015

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Tom Raftery

in Featured Posts, Technology / Software

Equinix is powering one of its Silicon Valley data centers with a 1MW Bloom Energy fuel cell

Facebook and ebay’s data centers are now vastly more transparent

Apr 29, 2013

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Tom Raftery

in Technology / Software

Facebook announced at the end of last week new way to report PUE and WUE for its datacenters. This comes hot on the heels of ebay’s announcement of its Digital Service Efficiency dashboard – a single-screen reporting the cost, performance and environmental impact of customer buy and sell transactions on ebay. These dashboards are a…

Social media and utility companies

Apr 12, 2013

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Tom Raftery

in Trends & Concepts

I’m moderating a panel discussion on social media and utilities at next week’s SAP for Utilities event in Copenhagen. My fellow panelists will include two representatives from utility companies, and one from SAP. This is not new ground for me, I have given the closing keynotes at the SAP for Utilities in San Antonio in…

Sustainability, social media and big data

Nov 1, 2012

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Tom Raftery

in Featured Posts, Technology / Software

The term Big Data is becoming the buzz word du jour in IT these days popping up everywhere, but with good reason – more and more data is being collected, curated and analysed today, than ever before. Dick Costolo, CEO of Twitter announced last week that Twitter is now publishing 500 million tweets per day.…

Smartphone energy management – when will there be an app for that?

Mar 21, 2012

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Tom Raftery

in Technology / Software

I wrote a post last week about mobile endpoint management applications and their potential to extend smartphone battery life. It seems it was a prescient piece given the emergence this week of a study from Purdue University and Microsoft Research showing how energy is used by some smartphone applications [PDF]. The study indicates that many…

Facebook hires Google’s former Green Energy Czar Bill Weihl, and increases its commitment to renewables

Dec 20, 2011

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Tom Raftery

in Technology / Software

Google has had an impressive record in renewable energy. They invested over $850m dollars in renewable energy projects to do with geothermal, solar and wind energy. They entered into 20 year power purchase agreements with wind farm producers guaranteeing to buy their energy at an agreed price for twenty years giving the wind farms an…

HP joins ranks of microserver providers with Redstone

Nov 3, 2011

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Tom Raftery

in Technology / Software

The machine in the photo above is HP’s newly announced Redstone server development platform. Capable of fitting 288 servers into a 4U rack enclosure, it packs a lot of punch into a small space. The servers are System on a Chip based on Calxeda ARM processors but according to HP, future versions will include “Intel®…

How to use LinkedIn to land your dream job

May 10, 2011

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Tom Raftery

in social networks

I was scanning Twitter this morning when I spotted a question from Adrian Weckler of the Sunday Business Post asking if anyone found LinkedIn useful and what for. I emailed Adrian the following story of how I used LinkedIn to help me get my current job. I’ve told this story quite a few times now…

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