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Jim Miller and Mateen Greenway (a couple of other fellows here at HP) just posted an article on hp.com about Three Ways to Thrive in an Uncertain Economic Upturn . These are a different perspective of some of the same issues Jean and I talked about in our Innovation During a Downturn podcast a few weeks...
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A number of times I've mentioned the rise of parallel processing and multi-core as well as the effect on development and the kinds of solutions that are consumed . I was talking with some folks at TI the other day about the projections of multi-core processors on the market and the attached chart...
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Earlier this week I was the keynote speaker for the Toronto Innovation Showcase . One of the things the mayor announced was the Toronto Open project. This activity opens up much of the cities information for the residents of Toronto to mashup into applications. They also announced an effort to coordinate...
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By: Doug Oathout, VP of Green IT Enterprise Storage and Servers Time to connect datacenter IT with facilities and unleash their trapped energy capacity IT organizations have been building infrastructure in silos for twenty years; the network administrator builds the interconnects, the storage administrator...
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I saw three new opinions about BladeSystem last week. First, PC World Latin America announced that the HP BL490c G6 virtualization blade won in the "Best Server" category of the annual PC World Latin America 2009 Awards . These awards honor the "best digital & IT products available...
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Daniel Bowers
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10-21-2009
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Filed under: BladeSystem, awards, innovation, virtualization blade, Cisco, Datacenter futures, BL490c, Bytemark, Liquid Computing, Gartner, Latin America
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A recent news story covered proposed changes by the US Patent Office to enhance the patent review process and reduce the backlog of over 750,000 patent applications. My last patent was issued after nearly 6 years in the process, so I really appreciate anything done to speed up patent prosecution. Everyone...
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Let’s have some fun and come up with new ideas about cloud computing using the Lateral Thinking method. If you are reading this blog, then you know all about cloud computing. Lateral Thinking is a set of techniques for developing new ideas and solutions. One of the techniques known as “Alternatives”...
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On Monday, Newsweek released their inaugural Green Rankings , and interestingly, HP finished at the top. In an article, titled " The Greenest Big Companies in America " they explain they decided to publicize this list to recognize the efforts of companies, and how they ranked companies in industries...
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christianverstraete
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09-25-2009
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Filed under: Experience, Green, Carbon, Carbon Footprint, Sustainability, CO2, DFE, Environment, Innovation, Carbon offsets, Award
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A few times on this blog I've talked about the use of the downturn as a jumping off point for innovation and advantage . The other day Jean Lehmann and I were interviewed by about why now is a prime time for innovation. I've put a link to the MP3 file here. Click here to play this audio clip
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I have always been interested in space, science fiction and advanced technology, and a lot of things that were fanciful creations when I was growing up, like ubiquitous wireless personal communication devices, have come to pass and are now mainstream. From the early days of space flight, solar cells...
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A couple days ago, I received a call from a friend asking me a very simple question: "What criteria should I use to decide which applications I should move to the cloud?" Not having a direct answer myself, I searched the web, and to my amazement, I could not find a clear and simple answer to...
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As part of HP's latest press release on its partnership with GS1 Canada, HP is announcing the HP cloud computing ecosystem for manufacturing industries. This is a real exciting development. Let me explain why. In many entries of this blog, I have been talking about the need for companies to increase...
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2009 is both the 150 year publication anniversary of the foundational work On " The Origin of Species " by Charles Darwin and his 200 year birthday. What would he tell us today about the evolution of cloud computing or is this a far fetched question? Well, not really. Consider the key role...
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Every July, the title of the World’s Busiest Airport shifts to a small airport in Wisconsin as between 10,000 and 15,000 air crafts visits the Experimental Aircraft Association’s annual Airventure fly-in at Oshkosh Wisconsin. Originally started by the Homebuilt Aircraft Movement, pilots who...
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Henk de Man of Cordys and I are preparing a draft RFP for issue by the Object Management Group (OMG) calling for a Knowledge Driven Process Modeling (KDPM) specification. This generalizes the requirements of case management modeling previously discussed as a draft OMG RFP (see Case Management: The Missing...