Is Your Company Ready for Cloud: Choosing the Best Cloud Adoption Strategy for Your Business. – published 2012 June 21 Authored by IBMers Pamela Isom and Kerrie Holley. Pam is also Chair of The Open Group Cloud Business Use Cases Work Group which has published complementary white papers, and has contributed to additional Open Group…
Author: Penelope Gordon
Cloud Industry Forum (CIF)
Cloud Industry Forum A UK-based company that is developing and supporting a “credible and certifiable Code of Practice” related to cloud adoption. The company member list include some big IaaS / PaaS names such as Dell, Microsoft, VMware, and Rackspace; but does include any big name SaaS companies. The list of white papers to-date is…
Cloud Sustainability Certification
Sustainability categories: environmental, social, and financial Determine the baseline CV for various types of Cloud Producers and their Suppliers, create a CV Report template, build the repository of CV calculations, and the develop the mechanism for auditing the calculations and CV Reports.
Community Cloud Case Studies
Agriculture Large-scale agriculture pushes use of pesticides, insecticides, inorganic fertilizers, mono-cropping, and GMO seeds to enable one crop farmer to manage more acres; and encourages factory farms to confine the animals, to use antibiotics, to manipulate genes, to use species-inappropriate feed, and to accelerate maturation / production (milking three instead of two times a day,…
Crop Solutions
Bayer to buy biopesticide maker AgraQuest for $425 million. – 2012 July 6 Perhaps Bayer CropScience represents the supply-side of the middle ground for agriculture: green greens.
My Parks
Penelope Gordon’s My Parks Pinterest board I encourage everyone to create a ‘My Parks’ list – whether on a social media site such as Pinterest or Facebook or on a piece of paper – and to share that list. Include those parks which you look forward to visiting – your parks ‘bucket list’. This is…
Big Data and SMEs
Big Data of Growing Importance to Small Businesses: SAP – Midmarket – News & Reviews – eWeek.com. 2012 June 27 What SMEs (small to medium-size enterprises) perceive will be the impact on them of Big Data: Opportunity to improve business operation efficiency Ability to boost sales Lower IT costs Improve business agility Improve customer acquisition…
IBM and CSR
Giving Time, Talent and Expertise | Citizen IBM Blog. – 2012 July 2 Teasers and highlight video for IBM’s 2011 Corporate Responsibility Report. Also includes an introduction video by Stanley S. Litow. Are sustainability considerations given equal weight with values of short-term shareholders, or are IBM’s CSR activities merely a patina?
Data Center Localization
2012 Sep 25 InfoWorld article connecting big data centers to big pollution. Per the article most data centers waste 90% or more of the energy that they consume, and that their big generators are a big source of air pollution in locations such as Silicon Valley. I think that this bolsters the case for community…
Mark Skilton
Mark Skilton touched the Olympic Torch as it crossed through Solihull High Street (in England) on July 1st, 2012.