A Lean Greentech Approach

I am a greentech enthusiast and I have been closely following the greentech VC investment landscape. The VCs like Kleiner Perkins who have h...

Chief Sustainability Officer - the next gig for a CIO

CIO no longer means Career Is Over. CIOs should not underestimate their skills and organizational clout to lead the company in its sustainab...

Cloud Computing At The Bottom Of The Pyramid

I see cloud computing play a big role in enabling IT revolution in the developing nations to help companies market products and services to ...

Design Thinking Sustainability

The designers have been designing tools, processes, and methods to support and not to change people's behavior. In contrast designing fo...

De-coupled Cloud Runtime And Demand-based Pricing Suggest Second Wave Of Cloud Computing

A couple of days back Zoho announced that the applications created using Zoho Creator can now be deployed on the Google cloud . On the same ...

Does Cloud Computing Help Create Network Effect To Support Crowdsourcing And Collaborative Filtering?

Nick has a long post about Tim O'Reilly not getting the cloud . He questions Tim's assumptions on Web 2.0, network effects, power la...

Continuous Passive Branding During Economic Downturn To Change Customers' Opinions

The current economic downturn has forced many CIOs to significantly reduce the external IT spending. Many projects are being postponed or ca...

Greening The Data Centers

Recently Google published the Power Usage Efficiency (PUE) numbers of their data centers. PUE is defined as a ratio of the total power cons...