Ever stood in a busy shopping mall in the UK (and by the way same question applies to Delhi airport and a million other locations) and watched how many people are on their cell phones? It’s frightening to those of us who remember old telecom technologies like switchboards, bakelite handsets and even acoustic couplers.
There are [...]

In the aftermath of travel chaos caused by the Icelandic volcano ash, it was interesting to observe the dynamics in the social media world as several thousand stranded passengers across the globe relied on Twitter for information. Differently to the disastrous opening of London Heathrow’s Terminal Five, ‘acts of God’ such as this can’t be helped. [...]

I wrote an article recently in silicon.com mentioning Steria in the context of how the UK government is likely to explore further offshoring once the election is complete.
Now the leader debates are underway and we are about to get a real taste of what the leaders say about the future of the public sector in [...]

Every time I write an article about cloud computing I always think it has landed at the right time. Just as green issues hit the top of the corporate and government agendas we have this new way of delivering technology that gives us better services, lowers costs and actually creates much less carbon.
I have been on [...]

As traditional working patterns change, a shift away from the traditional, 9-5 structure of office-based collaboration will be key to a more environmental-friendly way of running business.
However, remote working and ‘being green’ often seem to be in the same space of nice-to-have good stuff that is impossible to ask from a business trying to cut [...]

Following on my musings about remote working from another post, I thought it would be worth talking about unified communications (UC) as a model that can support the environmental efficiency at the enterprise.
I recently moderated a debate around the approach, which sought to discuss the advantages of UC, which is not a single technology, but [...]

Governments are determined to look green, at least on paper, and it is only a matter of time before datacentres get stung by the taxman.
In recognition that datacentres being massive users of power, governments might tax them in relation to the amount of power they use. Datacentres probably already account for about 5% of global [...]

IT ecosystems exist today rather than IT infrastructures. The components of these ecosystems are all reliant on power so controlling energy consumption is a challenge.
These ecosystems are extremely complicated and difficult to understand. For example a big bank might have a 40-year-old computer chugging away in the underworld. Nobody knows how much power it and [...]

Many IT suppliers and CIOs point out green initiatives can also be good for business performance. The problem they often have is in quantifying and demonstrating this. With some investments, the return is clear - and quick. For example, power management technologies such as smart-switching products that prevent idle machines being left on standby, needlessly [...]

I was reading about the large turn out at this year’s Nasscom conference last February in India, some 1600 delegates from across the world, and couldn’t help wondering how many flights were taken to the event and how much carbon was created as a result.
My inbox is evidence enough for me to understand that to [...]