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Core4 challenges traditional data center cooling technology

Core4 Systems, a start-up that sells an innovative data center cooling system, is targeting businesses who are trying to reduce the footprint of their data centers or find a more modular way to build out a new one. The company offers a range of systems including CRAC,...

Tags: Utility Company, Data Center, Data Centers, Telecom & Utilities, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-09-17

IBM opens up systems framework for energy companies

IBM has designs on utility companies and other players in the smart grid and renewable energy world that are trying to see the big picture. The company is introducing a framework called the IBM Solution Architecture for Energy and Utilities Framework SAFE, which acts as an integration...

Tags: Utility Company, Industry, Energy Company, IBM Corp., Telecom & Utilities, Broadband Over Power Line, GIS, Strategy, Telecommunications, Broadband Internet, Software, Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-09-16

New England software company could harvest rewards from carbon cap

New England software company could harvest rewards from carbon capCap and trade can only have one end resultand it isn't cleaner airFirst utility rates will go uppoor people will not be able to afford thisthe government will blame the greedy utility companiesthe public will become outragedthe government will make laws...

Tags: Vertical industries, Telecom & Utilities, government, utility company, carbon, utility rate, software company, software

Discussion threads 2009-06-25

Utility Company Boosts Productivity, Protects Investment With Unified Communications

Empresas Publicas de Medellín EPM, one of the largest municipally owned utility companies in Colombia, has many offices throughout the state of Antioquia. Employees in different locations often need to communicate and collaborate with one another on projects and teams. Anticipating continued growth, EPM wanted to streamline and modernize its...

Tags: Utility Company, Investment, Unified Communications, Microsoft Corp., PBX, Telephony, VOIP, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Networking

Case studies 2009-05-01

Are we seeing a serious greening of Colorado? Sure seems that way.

Recently I blogged about what's happened in Colorado since the voters passed a renewable energy mandate back in 2004. Today comes word that a major utility company is shuttering two coal-burning plants in Colorado and turning to more use of solar for electricity generation. State regulators...

Tags: Utility Company, Colorado, Xcel, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-08-25

(Photos: World's most efficient solar dish?)

(Photos: World's most efficient solar dish?)Oh my what will the utility companies have to say about this?I am sure the utility companies will find reasons to downplay or eliminate this concept. Just like they make it financially impossible for the average American to afford to put up windmills for...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, wind generator, solar dish, dish, photograph, utility company

Discussion threads 2008-06-23

Sensor-o-rama Part 2: Green vending machines

I actually found a vending machine last week that provided me with diet caffeine for a mere 25 cents. But I never realized just how many of those machines are out there until I spoke the next morning with Barbara Scott, a product manager for USA...

Tags: Utility Company, Cold Calling, Beverage, Machine, Sales Tools, Food & Beverage, Telecom & Utilities, Sales, Manufacturing, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2007-11-03

Discover How Automated Meter Management and SOA Can Light the Way for Utility Companies: Establishing the Necessary Infrastructure to Maximize Flexibility and Component Reuse

Many utility companies have unintegrated systems that use a silo approach, with applications "Burying" information. Business processes can't see or reuse data or components. The introduction of Automated Meter Management AMM has intensified the need for corporate-wide visibility of all systems that provide reuse and integration. Service-Oriented Architecture SOA can...

Tags: Utility Company, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Telecom & Utilities, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2006-10-17

Utility Company Manages Distributed System With Avaya Interactive Response (IR) and RSI's Remote Administration Tool

A Midwest-based utility company provides utility services to three Midwestern states. The utility company was using a highly distributed system with interactive response systems deployed in three different sites. The company wanted to ensure that the Avaya systems could be remotely managed. As the requirements for the contact center kept...

Tags: Utility Company, Remote Administration, Distributed System, Avaya Inc., RSI, Telecom & Utilities

Case studies

Additional Resources

SnapMail 5.2.2 (Mac)

SnapMail is the cross-platform private messaging and file transfer utility for your office. Instantly send messages, files, reminders, and alerts on your network. Unlike instant messaging, SnapMail uses peer-to-peer technology and does not rely on Internet servers to send mail within your local network. This makes SnapMail a very fast...

Tags: Message, Apple Macintosh, Messaging, Mail, Glass Bead Software, SnapMail, Instant Messaging, Internet, Groupware, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software

Software downloads 2009-11-02

Smart grid grants

Over $3 billion dollars worth of federal money will be awarded to smart grid projects in the U.S. today. President Obama has chosen a Florida solar power plant as the location for making his announcement. He'll be in Arcadia, Florida, at Florida Power and Light Co.’s...

Tags: Grant, Monitors & Displays, Wi-Fi, Hardware, Components, Wireless And Mobility, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-27

Dell unveils 12.1" rugged multitouch tablet PC, Latitude XT2 XFR; withstands drops, spills, sand, children

This is the kind of stuff Apple's Baubles can't matchYou just can't find this kind of diverse hardware options down at the Bauble Factory.Will the hinge break?Will it break if I dropped it while typing? The hinge seems a very vulnerable part.As for the Apple - they can match. In...

Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, Desktops, Operating systems, Dell Latitude, Dell Computer Corp., Apple Inc., PC, tablet PC, tablet

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

Midwest tech firm now wind driven

Other World Computing OWC is in McHenry County, Illinois, and now their power comes from the wind. OWC claims the title of "first 100 percent on-site wind powered technology manufacturer/distributor in the U.S." It's using Vestas-made wind turbines for all its daily electricity needs. ...

Tags: Turbine, Other World Computing, Other World Computing HQ, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-26

Silver Spring signs up another smart grid client

The latest utility to commit to using smart grid technology from Silver Spring Networks is American Electric Power AEP. Silver Spring will be part of the company's gridSMART initiative, which is being engineered by Indiana Michigan Power and AEP Ohio across regions in Indiana and northeast central Ohio. AEP hopes...

Tags: American Electric Power Co. Inc., Cloud Computing, Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, It service Management, Networking, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-10-26

The chief value of open source

Custom code solutions...It's great you can see the code, but for companies I disagree that is a "value".What SMB has the resources to comb through thousands of lines of code to assure reliability and security? Even if they do manage to find a bug, are they going to fork...

Tags: open source, software

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

Microsoft lands Facebook, Twitter deals for Bing

Several million or several hundred million?Several million is nothing. The numbers would need to be in the tens of millions to even be considered a "mistake." And if they're revenue sharing, there has to be revenue 1st before they have to share...bing is lame....and will cause people to leave twitter...

Tags: Twitter Inc., Facebook, Bing, Microsoft Corp., Chicago Cubs

Discussion threads 2009-10-21

Apple announces most profitable quarter ever: Q4 2009

Q4 early?Doesn't Q4 end Dec. 31st? Shouldn't these figures be for Q3??yathats what i was thinking. How could they know their earnings before the Quarter is even over? RE: Apple announces most profitable quarter ever: Q4 2009I find it intrestering how the typical apple user is the berkinstock wearing...

Tags: Desktops, Win7, Apple Inc., hardware, PC

Discussion threads 2009-10-20

ServiWin 1.37 (Windows)

ServiWin utility displays the list of installed drivers and services on your system. For some of them, additional useful information is displayed: file description, version, product name, and company that created the driver file. In addition, ServiWin allows you to easily stop, start, restart, pause, and continue service or driver,...

Tags: Driver, NirSoft Freeware, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-10-15

Has Chamber become a Chamber of Horrors for its members?

There's an essay coming out in one of those MSM pubs that wll stir even more anger and argument over the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's political stance via-a-vis federal action or inaction on global warming. I've blogged about this before, most recently when Apple left the Chamber over its...

Tags: Stance, Greenhouse Gas, Apple Inc., Global Warming, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-12

Upgrading to Windows 7 - Your questions answered!

OK Adrian. Now, do the same thing for Ubuntu 9.10.Upgrading to Ubuntu 9.10 and matrix is side-by-side with W7.One data pointI took my Dell Latitude E6500 (Core 2 Duo P9500, 4GB) from Vista x86 to Win7 x64 (clean install required for 32-bit to 64-bit upgrade). I downloaded the 64-bit Vista...

Tags: Linux, Operating systems, Notebooks, Karmic Koala, Ubuntu, Dell Computer Corp., Migration Wizard, Microsoft Windows 7, fess up, Upgrading, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-10-09