SaaS, Business, Strategy, Web 2.0, Collaboration and a whole lot more
Over on the SaaSu blog they’ve got this post detailing how SaaS can increase sustainability for its customers and the world at large. While Diversity blogs are proponents of SaaS in all its shapes and forms, the SaaSu post might just be a little bit evangelical for our tastes.
Don’t you think?
A friend sent me a link to this site which headlines an animated movie looking at our collective mass consumerism model.
While a diatribe against consumption is somewhat outside of the usual subject matter of this blog, and arguably somewhat opposed to things I write about (yep - that sexy new MacBookAir is another example of perceived obsolescence that is one of the energy sources for the consumer society), I’d like to think the life I lead is at least a little balanced in terms of total foot print.
It’s tempting to turn this post around and say that in fact SaaS is a more environmentally friendly way of delivering software (and it is - more energy efficient, less hardware demands at the user end yada yada yada), but that would be somewhat opportunistic.
So what do the readers think - is our focus on things tech yet another addition to consumer society or are there ways that tech can help”cure the disease” (if indeed the contention is correct that consumer-itis is an affliction)
There endeth my shade-of-green post for the day.
A VP of Sun Microsystems has predicted that within the next 12 months a major data centre will have a meltdown. He tells of data centres currently being built that consume 50 megawatts of electricity (more than a small town does). Of course this is the reason that MS, Google and others are building data centres in either extreme cold areas or close to large electricity sources.
It also however starts to make perfect sense that Google is making forays into the energy sector. It’s a text book vertical integration play that vives them both price and supply security. It also enables them to run data centres, in part at least, as a closed loop which is very much in keeping with the way Google seems to architect things.
Roll on renewables and hi-temperature superconductors I say!
The boys and I just got back from a lovely jaunt up Mt Cass. Mt Cass overlooks the stunningly beautiful Waipara Valley, not to mention our house - pic below is us on the top pointing to the family digs;
Mt Cass is also the site of the proposed Mt Cass Windfarm, a project soon to go to public consultation (watch this space).
And one more pic - this time the Mt Cass trig with a couple of likely lads clambering inside it - happy days…
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