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Constellation Wines (maker of Mondavi, Wild Horse and other big U.S. wine brands) goes solar

Pacific Power Management is building out a 1.2-megawatt solar system that will cover the winery warehouse roof for theConstellation WinesU.S. Gonzales Winery in Monterey, Calif. The system, set to be completed by the end of 2008, is supposed to produce more than 1,700,000 kilowatt hours per year. ...

Tags: Winery, Brand, Wine, Pacific Power Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-10-15

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Arguing About the Collaboration Toolkit: Cisco's Enterprise Collaboration Platform

In the aftermath of last week's San Francisco Enterprise 2.0 conference there's been some lively debate about what constitutes '2.0', including some great comments on my previous post. Meanwhile Cisco have literally just announced their Enterprise Collaboration Platform, which will be broad set...

Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Cisco Systems Inc., Tool, Productivity, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-08

Most businesses still paying lip service to power management

A new survey from KACE, which makes various systems management appliances, finds that even though 93 percent of businesses acknowledge that power management can help reduce energy costs, only about half are using some sort of power management policies or technologies today. Fewer than 10 percent use...

Tags: Power Management, Kace, Systems Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-09-08

Cliffs Natural Resources Cuts Month-End Close From Seven Days to Four Days, Standardizes Reporting

Cliffs Natural Resources wanted to replace spreadsheet based reporting, which was costly and prone to late delivery and shorten month-end reporting time to ensure the Asia Pacific management team has time to review consolidated regional results before submission to the U.S. head office. The challenge was to extend and improve...

Tags: Hyperion Solutions Corp., Oracle Corp., Spreadsheet, Productivity

Case studies 2009-09-01

Shut it off! HP widget show users impact of power management.

(Updated post on June 4 ... Turns out the widget DOES work on Macs.) You gotta love Hewlett-Packard. I spent an hour on the phone the other day with some of the company’s imaging team going through some various environmental and eco-tech announcements, and NO ONE mentions...

Tags: Power Management, Hewlett-Packard Co., Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-06-03

Paranormal Meets Verizon's Cloud Computing Service

I was speaking yesterday with Verizon about its new hosted data center service, Computing as a Service CaaS, and flashed back to those spoon bending parties of the ‘70s. Back then stage psychic Uri Geller inspired normally sane...

Tags: Spoon, Verizon Communications Inc., Computing As A Service, Data Centers, Virtualization, Servers, Cloud Computing, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2009-06-03

Block your calendars for some Microsoft Green IT tip sessions

Got a few hours to kill in "learning mode"? Microsoft is getting set to run a series of Green IT education TechNet Web seminars starting May 1, 2009. The first event, "Transforming the Data Center with Energy" (scheduled for May 1 at 11 a.m. Pacific time) will...

Tags: Information Technology, Green IT, Microsoft Corp., Pacific, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-04-30

Yahoo confirms Bartz in charge; Can she save Yahoo?

Yahoo has confirmed that Carol Bartz is its new CEO. Now the real fun begins: Turning around Yahoo amid a horrid economy and deciding whether to do a search deal with Microsoft. But first Bartz will need a No. 2 as Yahoo president Sue Decker will resign. ...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Carol Bartz, BoomTown, Corporate Governance, Mergers & Acquisitions, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-01-13

Dell shuffles management deck; Focuses on global units

Dell ended 2008 with a management shakeup. The company said Wednesday that it has realigned its business to focus on four global groups: Large enterprise, public, small and medium sized business and consumer, which is already set up as a global unit. Here's a...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Mark Jarvis, Smb/Sme, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Manufacturing, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-12-31

Could 'The Toyota Way' & Enterprise 2.0 Rescue the Big 3 US Auto Companies?

Andrew McAfee of Harvard Business School, who coined the term Enterprise 2.0 and with whom I am on the advisory board for the conference of that name, wrote a fascinating blog post earlier this month: 'The Enterprise 2.0 Recovery Plan'. It's a long...

Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise Software, Groupware, Information Technology, Internet, McKinsey & Co., Oliver Marks, Software, Toyota Motor Corp., Web, Web 2.0

Blog posts 2008-12-14

Smart grid tech player Silver Spring receives a cool $75M

Despite the ongoing financial meltdown, people still are throwing money around for greentech/cleantech companies. For now, at least. Silver Spring Networks, which develops Smart Grid technology, said it has received an additional $75 million in funding intended for global expansion. The investment round was led by Kleiner...

Tags: Financial, Venture Capital, Financial Accounting, Investment, Telecom & Utilities, Finance, Financing Startups, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-10-08

2009 Honda Pilot EX-L 2WD

Photo gallery:Honda Pilot EX-LLet's face it. The Honda Pilot has always looked like a brick on wheels. The new for 2009 Pilot, with its CR-V inspired grille, looks even worse. It doesn't get much better on the inside, with a dash dominated by cheap plastics and questionable material choices. As...

Tags: Twin-Peaks, mpg, Honda Motor Co.

Product reviews 2008-08-29

Palm Treo: The reviews are upbeat; Can a device turn Palm around?

Palm may have a hit on its hands with the Treo Pro judging from the recent spate of reviews as NDAs ended on Wednesday. The larger question is whether this pricey device can give the company a boost in the bottom line. To wit: ...

Tags: Device, Palm Inc., Palm Treo, Treo Pro, QWERTY Keyboard, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-27

Open source and the 'fear factor' mentality

Open source and the 'fear factor' mentality....Look, our resident troll is back! ]:)OK everybody!Shut everything down. Open Source doesn't work. Go back to proprietary because they never have any security breaches. How many repositories are we talking about? You site one breach and declare the Open...

Tags: open source, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2008-08-20

My Awesome IT Job: Senior vice president, CA

Hey, we all complain about work from time to time; we've all had lousy jobs. But before you call it a day and head off to the support group that meets at the bar, here are a few words from an IT pro that love their work. ...

Tags: Information Technology, Computer Associates International Inc., Strategy, Team Management, Management, Deb Perelman

Blog posts 2008-08-01

Brown rice, white rice, now GREEN rice

A major rice grower in California is looking to sell green rice. "Green" as in solar-powered. Of course, like all crops, rice needs sun to grow and ripen. Now Far West Rice, Inc. of Cypress, California, is going to harvest, mill, store, move and bag rice using...

Tags: California, Plant, PPM, Government, Food & Beverage, Telecom & Utilities, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-06-17

Global warming: a fish story, and your health

Global warming: a fish story, and your healthSpecies come, species goGlobal warming positivies :Organisms can grow and develop at faster rates, thus bringing us new species more rapidly.Plants will grow more quickly, taking more CO2 from the atmosphere. The warmer it gets, the harder vegetation will work to remove CO2....

Tags: High-altitude habitat, health care, forest, global warming, species

Discussion threads 2008-06-16

BigFix fixes up some utility rebate incentives in Northwest states

For you energy-minded IT professionals who prefer only to work with companies that are part of the Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star program, I wanted to alert you that power management software supplier BigFix has become an Energy Star partner. The company also has qualified for a number of electric...

Tags: Incentive, BigFix Inc., Productivity, Business Structures, Finance, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-03-18

I can live without gold, buy less gasoline, but NO salmon!

I can live without gold, buy less gasoline, but NO salmon!...Answer is simple Harry... 1. We have over fished many of the salmon populations.2. Due to although this year seems to be a turn around several dry seasons many salmon spawning sites were in accessible to the salmon during their...

Tags: Salmon, river, salmon, habitat

Discussion threads 2008-03-17

Get Smart: Researchers call results of GridWise energy demand-response project encouraging

If this blog takes the form of a news story, that's because it kinda is. In some ways this is a phenomenon I’ve been writing about for years -- the fact that headless devices like sensors and meters and intelligent appliances will start driving more traffic on the Internet than...

Tags: Homeowner, Grid, Technology, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-01-09