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How does a guy with a Ph.D. in computational neuroscience wind up doing green IT initiatives at Microsoft? He also has co-authored a guidebook called Green IT: Reduce Your Information System's Environmental Impact While Adding to the Bottom Line. I’m talking about Dr. Tony Velte. In this podcast, he offers a concise framework for how you can green everything from your data centers to desktops. He also has co-authored books about cloud computing and virtualization. How let’s meet Dr. Toby Velte, a member of a Microsoft team focused on helping large enterprise groups with their IT strategies. That includes going green. How does a guy with a Ph.D. in computational neuroscience wind up doing green IT initiatives at Microsoft and also co-writing a guidebook called Green IT: Reduce Your Information System's Environmental Impact While Adding to the Bottom Line and the upcoming? Dr. Toby J. Velte’s work in computational neuroscience focused on creating models that were very similar to the widespread enterprise networks found in most large companies and in government agencies. Contacts he made along the way helped him to secure a position at Microsoft helping large enterprise groups with their IT strategies, especially around green IT. Velte’s green IT book provides a roadmap for how you can create a company-wide green IT program starting with your data centers, moving down to desktops, and empowering individual business units to develop their own IT strategies. He says that the number one problem companies have with moving forward with green IT isn’t the technology or having adequate funds. It’s the people situation.” He urges companies to get all of their stakeholders together to try to understand what the green initiatives are going to look like at the end of the day, and how do they plan to measure success. Next, companies need to measure everything starting with power consumption. “Most companies don’t have the metrics in place. People need to understand what they have and what they are consuming. “ Once companies know what outcomes they want to achieve, then it’s time to execute the green IT program as if it were another IT initiative. In most companies, green IT begins in the data center. In fact, that’s where it began at Microsoft. When Microsoft built its new data center outside of Quincy, Washington, it supplemented reliance on the power grid by use of water power. Meanwhile, virtualization and cloud computing can also cut down on a data center’s power consumption. He says, “By moving business process out to the cloud, you are really turning over the power consumption issue to the service provider. With virtualization, can you eliminate the servers with low utilization, say around 15 percent, by moving those applications to virtualized servers. You can achieve upwards of 80 percent utilization with fewer servers.” In this podcast, Velte talks about some of the practical measurements you can take to make sure your desktops and data centers are green, the ways you can translate those metrics into meaningful results, the steps you can take to reduce your reliance on the power grid, and a plan companies can follow to stay green.

TraderChat with Energy Analyst Chris Nelder. - peak oil production - how much oil we can actually get vs. how much we use - implications for our economy & way of life - remedies such as solar panels to reduce our use of fossil fuels. Look for Parts 1 & 3 soon at: http://finz.tv/channel/talk-interview **Learn more from Chris's research: http://getreallist.com **Follow Chris on Twitter: http://twitter.com/nelderini **Get Chris's book "Profit from the Peak" at http://finz.tv/books **this TraderChat is sponsored by INOtv http://finz.tv/inotv 1000's of hours of video-on-demand seminars & education from top traders

When it comes to the new energy economy, nobody has more resources in one place than the state of Texas. With an independent energy grid, a top-tier university specializing in new energy research, and hundreds of years of experience in the industry, it's no surprise that Texas is leading the Energy Revolution.

In case you can't tell your ass from your elbow here's what you missed this week. As the White House continued to analyze Afghan war strategies, U.S. commanders over saw secret war games scenarios. President Obama called on big banks to loan to small businesses and announced a new smart power grid plan while liberal groups attacked the healthcare plan trigger option. President Bush was a hit as a motivational speaker whilst U.S. soldiers were accused of marrying for benefits. A Kentucky man called 911 and was shot by police, the price of gas shot up, a deer broke into a Rhode Island restaurant and a Home Depot worker was fired over his God button.

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Author: NickStivens Keywords: advantages alternative benefits bill build guide robot cheap conservation cost diy earth magnets4energy earthenergy efficiency efficient electric electricity eliminate energy environment free fuel generate generator global green grid heat heater help home homemade house how instructions kits live make manufacturer market money natural magnet magnets plant power renewable residential resources review save engine sell motor sun system technology transformers magnetic machine tesla work Added: November 1, 2009

Author: NickStivens Keywords: advantages alternative benefits bill build guide robot cheap conservation cost diy earth magnets4energy earthenergy efficiency efficient electric electricity eliminate energy environment free fuel generate generator global green grid heat heater help home homemade house how instructions kits live make manufacturer market money natural magnet magnets plant power renewable residential resources review save engine sell motor sun system technology transformers magnetic machine tesla work Added: November 1, 2009

Author: NickStivens Keywords: advantages alternative benefits bill build guide robot cheap conservation cost diy earth magnets4energy earthenergy efficiency efficient electric electricity eliminate energy environment free fuel generate generator global green grid heat heater help home homemade house how instructions kits live make manufacturer market money natural magnet magnets plant power renewable residential resources review save engine sell motor sun system technology transformers magnetic machine tesla work Added: November 1, 2009

Author: NickStivens Keywords: advantages alternative benefits bill build guide robot cheap conservation cost diy earth magnets4energy earthenergy efficiency efficient electric electricity eliminate energy environment free fuel generate generator global green grid heat heater help home homemade house how instructions kits live make manufacturer market money natural magnet magnets plant power renewable residential resources review save engine sell motor sun system technology transformers magnetic machine tesla work Added: November 1, 2009

Sorry everyone, the date is 21 Oct 2008 http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=0E6B958B03F6DE39 Astronomer and author Phil Plait discussed his new book Death from the Skies!, which outlines various ways the human race could die from astronomical events. An asteroid or comet impact could wreak havoc on the planet. For instance, a one-mile-long object that hit the ocean could create a 1000 ft. high tsunami, moving at 500 mph. It could literally scour clean the coastlines, killing millions, he detailed. The B612 Foundation is working on ways to prevent asteroid impacts, such as by sending out probes that could alter asteroids' orbits, he reported. Another dire situation he pondered involved the death of the universe. While theoretical, and billions of years in our future, the continued expansion of the universe could lead to The Big Rip in which matter is torn apart. More likely, our galaxy would just move further and further away from other galaxies until we could no longer see them, he said. Gamma Rays, a kind of cosmic blowtorch sent out by a certain type of super nova could potentially obliterate life, but Plait happily noted it didn't appear any candidate stars were currently close enough to Earth to zap us. He also touched on a number of other potentially catastrophic but non-imminent consequences, such as a black hole eating our planet, damaging solar flares, an alien attack, and the collision of the Milky Way galaxy with neighboring Andromeda. Such a collision, which is due in about two billion years, could cause some stars to be flung far out into the galaxy.

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