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You must have seen the comments, even from reputable analysts and commentators, ‘servers in data centers run at an average 8% cpu utilization and that’s a bad thing and it’s down to the data center operations people to fix this atrocious misuse of corporate assets by increasing that average utilization…
I read a review of a couple of economic investigations into the bounce that you get if you reduce the fuel needed to heat a house or travel a mile by car. The bounce is the increase in use driven by the reduced price to keep the temperature or drive…
I felt a pang of schadenfreude the other day when I realised that much of the iPhone traffic in London is actually going thro’ wifi, rather than via the telcos – it’s so much faster than 3g, let alone the gsm that’s on the iPhone, and should the users take…
I mentioned in my first Tideway blog ( Thoughts on Climate Change) that I’d measured 2.5% of server assets were still running, although as far as IT reporting was concerned, they’d already been decommissioned. At first sight this might not seem significant compared to the cost of finding them.…
Back in the early 90’s I was a consultant in a large systems integrator. Moore’s law and de facto and de jure standardisations were breaking proprietary systems’ stranglehold on customers, driving the ambitions of organsations to increase the scope of their IT across the value chain and to get economies of scale of technology ownership, while increasing the end-to-end automation of their enterprises to reduce business operational costs.
Interesting documentary on TV last night: ‘The Great Global Warming Swindle’. Superficially, it reminded me of Lomborg’s ‘the Skeptical Environmentalist’, but came over as much less coherent and consistent. I tend to the opinion that Climate Change (or the possibility of Climate Change) is really an economic problem than a scientific one.
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