It is a big week for Cloud Computing. Rackspace announced they are entering the space via acquisition. Today Amazon announces EC2 is no longer beta – which is good. The important part of the announcement for me is the roadmap they hint at. Cloud computing keeps advancing like rolling thunder. Amazon today announced a major… Continue reading Cloud Computing Leaps Forward – EC2 and Automatic Scaling
Category: Green Tech
Andy Grove proposes another Energy Proposal which only addresses supply…
Andy Grove (wikipedia) today (via Wired and Portfolio.com) gives us his Energy Proposal as a third alternative to the ones given by T. Boone Pickens and Al Gore earlier. Mr. Grove is spot on… To drill or not to drill? That has been the question this summer as Congress, the president and both candidates debate… Continue reading Andy Grove proposes another Energy Proposal which only addresses supply…
Going green – Less going.
Late last year I went on a bit of a rant about the silliness of “going green” and commuting back and forth to an office every day… I won’t bore you (again) with the details but you can find the posts here. Suffice it to say it isn’t just the carbon footprint of the commute… Continue reading Going green – Less going.
Going green – it is the little things…
Many people focus on the big things when discussing going green – and I can be as guilty of that as anyone – but it is probable that those big actions are too complex and too costly to have a substantive near term impact on your personal (and by extension the US and the world’s)… Continue reading Going green – it is the little things…