Yes I saw and heard a lot about Green IT lately, especially after 2 weeks of interesting SNW conferences in Dallas and Frankfurt last month, including for the new SNIA Green Storage Initiative. But I won’t mention the G word in this note… especially since my fellow blogger Hu already covers this very eloquently.
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Yes I know: I should have never stopped blogging (some might say that it was goodness I did). To paraphrase my blogging colleague Claus, it was a blogcation. “In reality”, Santa snatched the keys of my blog last Xmas, and it took me several months to get them back… but I could not wait for […]

The month of October has had a weird recurring pattern of events at least in the last few years. It usually starts relatively slowly; well for sure it’s slower than the mad September month full of interesting but schedule intensive conferences and business meetings. Then, towards the middle of the month […]

I could not resist attending the GridWorld event in Washington earlier this month. Not only this was an opportunity to meet with the passionate members of the Open Grid Forum (OGF was formed after the merger of the Global Grid Forum and the Enterprise Grid Alliance) but GridWorld was also a venue to meet with […]

Here is a set of buzz-words and acronym that have been over-hyped and often used out-of-context by IT industry “wonderfullists”. So using them together may look like an odd move. However, there seem to be some emerging and interesting convergence points (say synergy if you want) between these domains or at least some complementariness. Here’s […]

Remember this famous phrase from Act V. Scene IV of “The Tragedy of K. Richard Jr III, IT Manager” by William S.? If you don’t find this publication in the bookstores, you have a good chance to witness a similar scene in many of IT centres. Why? Simply because the IT industry has frequently struggled […]