Tag: oracle
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When will we have full Smart Grid deployments?
Photo credit mckaysavage Despite a lot of talk and some high profile trials the day we have ubiquitous full Smart Grids is still a long way off. I attended the Smart Grids Europe conference in Amsterdam this week. It was a great conference, I met a ton of interesting people and had some fascinating conversations.…
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Smart Grid Heavy Hitter series – Oracle’s Guerry Waters
I decided to run a series of interviews with people deeply involved in the Smart Grid space. I’m calling it the Smart Grid Heavy Hitters series. I will publish a new interview every Thursday until I run out of interviewees (or out of energy – poor pun intended, sorry!). In this, the first of my…
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The day that we see all devices which consume water having networked flow meters is still a ways off
I wrote a post a couple of days ago asking the question How long until all devices which consume water have networked flow meters? after talking to Oracle VP Industry Strategy, Guerry Waters about Oracle’s recently released “Testing the Water: Smart Metering for Water Utilities” study. Having put the question out there, I’m now going…
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How long until all devices which consume water have networked flow meters?
Photo credit bmitchellw Oracle published the results of a very interesting study recently called Testing the Water: Smart Metering for Water Utilities. Now, we have all heard about the compelling case for Smart Meters for electrical consumption (I have written and spoken about it extensively) but in this study Oracle asked utilities and their customers…
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Java Conference
I have just seen the line-up for IrishDev’s Java Conference and it is extremely impressive. The conference is on in Dublin on November 7th and has speakers from Apache, Sun, Iona, JBoss, Oracle, and Microsoft amongst others. Kudos to Fergal and the guys in IrishDev for organising what looks like will be a phenomenal day…
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Up is down, black is white, Microsoft does Linux deal with Novell!
From the “They said it would never happen dept” comes news today that Microsoft have signed a deal with Novell! The deal has been summarised into three main points by Dana Gardner: Under a technical cooperation agreement, Novell and Microsoft will work together in three primary areas to deliver new solutions to customers: virtualization, web…
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Any questions for Jeff Nolan?
Jeff Nolan is a former executive at SAP (Jeff led the Apollo Strategy Group for SAP – aka the Oracle Attack group) and recently joined a silicon valley startup called Teqlo. I will be interviewing Jeff tomorrow for the IT@Cork pre-conference podcast series. If you have any questions you would like me to put to…