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IBM cements cloud, appliance, BPM, CEP and SOA into an IMPACT 2009 solution brick

IBM cements cloud, appliance, BPM, CEP and SOA into an IMPACT 2009 solution brickNot too cloudyI don't share your excitement about IBM's announcement. In my post "Comfort Food and Cloud Computing" I discuss that cloud computing is a new paradigm that requires new ways of thinking.Cloud must support a...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Business process automation, Virtualization, Operational planning, Enterprise software, cloud computing, solution brick, IMPACT 2009, IBM Corp., BPM, SOA

Discussion threads 2009-05-04

What should we do with Tennessee and West Virginia when we're done?

I've blogged on the recent coal ash flood around a TVA power plant. No body died and a few homes got wrecked from waste after decades of cheap coal-fired electricity. So what's the big deal? Besides it was in Tennessee which is not your big media center...

Tags: Cement, Ash, Media Center PCs, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-01-07

Nanoengineered concrete to fight global warming

While hundreds of scientists are gathered in Paris to draw plans about how to fight global warming, MIT engineers are also working on the reduction of world emissions of carbon dioxide. As cement, which is the primary component of concrete, accounts for 5 to 10 percent of the worlds total...

Tags: global warming, C-S-H, cement, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Blog posts 2007-01-30

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Indian cement company buys American solar technology

Indian cement maker goes solar with American tech. by Harry Fuller

Tags: Tech, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-29

Brickbats over bricks

This is an IT Tech site, Mr. Fuller.ntCodes as gatekeepers?As an architect, I have never once consulted a building code to determine which product I should use for a building, especially considering that neither clay brick or fly ash brick is likely to be used in a structural capacity. ...

Tags: Performance management, CalStar

Discussion threads 2009-10-21

Could you green the world brick by brick?

It's a brick."Well, the mainstream bricks boys do not like CalStar and want to prevent from the use of the very word 'brick.'"Oh, puh-lease. Even when people in third world countries put mud in molds on the ground and use sunlight to bake it, we still call them bricks.Yes, it's...

Tags: CalStar, Oak Creek, ash, fly ash, Oak

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

Could you green the world brick by brick?

One California-based company is going to try. And they're going to make those "green" bricks in Wisconsin, not ship them in from China. The new-fangled brick has been pioneered by CalStar Products. A basic ingredient of the CalStar brick is coal ash, residue from burning coal. There...

Tags: Brick, CalStar Products, Coal Ash, Michael Kane, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-19

Snowe and enemies push health reform forward

Of course . . ."But the story is not yet told, and the trolls below will have their day."Of course. Your way is so right and everybody else is so wrong.at this point If they SO against the health reform let them have it there way since they...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care

Discussion threads 2009-10-14

Gartner: You want cloud? You need SOA first

Analyst: cloud may finally 'cement SOA into the IT mainstream' by Joe McKendrick

Tags: Gartner Inc., SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-10-09

Microsoft's Midori: Who's on the all-star roster?

that's by no means a' who's who' listMore likely a 'who's he' list.These guys are no match for FOSS and Linux in particular.Rather than failing to reinvent the wheel, they should just adopt Linux and do themselves a service for doing the right thing.Before you make yourself look any more...

Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, NT-kernel, Microsoft Corp., Linux, operating system, Microsoft Windows, Unix

Discussion threads 2009-10-05

Lawsuit alert: carbon wars are set to begin

I actually heard one political analyst today say that "nobody" wants the EPA to single-handedly deal with greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. By that I presume this MSM reporter means nobody with lots of power or money in Washington. All sides want to see Congress weigh-in....

Tags: Lawsuit, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-09-30

Could Internet filtering cause more harm than good?

A rational blog from ZackA welcome surprise, but perhaps for once, in your area of expertise ;-)You've made some good points. Pedophilia is nothing new and before the Internet pictures, magazines, videos and films were used instead. Just as criminal, just as prosecuted, as are a number of...

Tags: Internet, Internet Filtering, government

Discussion threads 2009-09-16

Staff are causing security breaches by using their own mobile phones says survey

Duh. Data theft is easier than ever before.I used to work in a facility where you surrendered every electronic item at the gate. When inside, you picked up your laptop and in-house cellphone and went to work. No iPhones or Blackberries, no USB sticks, nothing. Our laptops had some effective...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, survey, mobile, phone, security, security breach, Fidel Castro, Apple iPhone, Data Theft, cell phone

Discussion threads 2009-09-16

Current EPA regime to revisit previous smog rulings

The Obama version of the EPA is examining smog-related rulings from the Bush version of the EPA. The Bush EPA held off on smog rlings for most of eight years, then issued them last spring. They set less stringent regs than the science staff at EPA recommended. The...

Tags: Pollution, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-09-16

Will EPA trump Congress on carbon? If so, watch the fur fly.

The Environmental Protection Agency, no longer secretly pledged to protect corporate profits as it was under the previous regime, is about to become more controversial even than the American medical cartel. After medical legislation is either passed or passed by, the EPA will issue some rulings that will rock...

Tags: U.S. Congress, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Global Warming, Carbon, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-09-04

Oyak Cement Group Improves Data Quality and Efficiency in Reporting and Analysis

Oyak Cement Group wanted to establish new systems to automate and manage manufacturing and production processes to fulfill customer requests and minimize back orders and simplify the transfer of production data from external systems to the internal Enterprise Resource Planning ERP system and accelerate data entry. The challenge was to...

Tags: Data Quality, Oyak, Oracle Corp., Data Entry, Analysis, Manufacturing, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Case studies 2009-09-01

SONY goes "Open Kimono" with sexy new e-Readers

Sound like checkmate, they have everything the Kindle does for less $$ $They even have better quality. I want to buy one right now although it has to have the books that I want.At the risk of sounding fanboy-ishI must ask. How does the 6" $299 Sony touch (but...

Tags: E-books, e-book, Sony Corp., e-reader, Amazon.com Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-08-25

"Meat has a carbon footprint?" This blogger must be ignorant!

One talkback on my locavore blog says; "Meat has a carbon footprint? I guess all the carbon in that cow comes from pixie dust, eh? Or maybe we drill oil out of the ground and grow cows out of it." Wow! Carbon footprint is a tough concept, I see....

Tags: Cow, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Footprint, Blogger, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-08-22

Foundation of our green future

I recently got to speak with Steve Vassallo, an exec at Foundation Capital. They're an investment firm firmly in the greentech camp. They've been in the VC business for 14 years. They don't just talk the talk, Foundation's putting their money where the matter is. The firm's...

Tags: Foundation Capital, Florida Power & Light, Construction, Strategy, Management, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-08-10

China Century Cement Cuts the Time for Cost Statements From Three Days to One Day

China Century Cement wanted to enable the financial department to achieve accurate and timely cost assignment and tracking and reduce the number of receivables accounts to improve credit management and cash flow. The challenge was to establish efficient delivery processes to ensure customers receive their cement shipments on time and...

Tags: Oracle Corp., ERP, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Financial Accounting, Enterprise Software, Operational Accounting, Software, Finance

Case studies 2009-08-01