Green IT Adoption Trends. Yes or No

Green + Sustainability = New IT Business Model. Do you think you?

Personally, I think yes. There have quite number of successful "green IT" projects, that you may currently use. For example,

• Green OS, Windows 7, saving money and energy. Win 7 helps to save $44 per machine per year in India; in  US $81 per PC per year [1].

The report, made by Info Tech Research Group, divides 11 Green IT initiatives into 4 major groups: Virtualization and Consolidation, Energy Efficiency, Travel Reduction, and Asset Disposal.

Here are two signs showing that Green IT business is adapted positively worldwide, and something we should think of when we are going to start a new IT project [2].

  



[1] http://blogs.msdn.com/b/see/archive/2010/12/15/look-who-s-saving-energy-and-money-with-windows-7.aspx

[2] http://www-03.ibm.com/press/attachments/GreenIT-final-Mar.4.pdf

Are we entering a new era of cyber warfare?

Personally, I think yes. I believe that we soon may witness a new break-out of cyber attacks in less than 3 years, that would totally change  the world perspective about computers, network, and specifically the Internet.

Recent News:
Recent controversies, such as SOPA, or the conflict about who will have the full power to control the Internet, and who wants the Internet itself should be free, etc.

First time revelation from US military that China military would conduct cyber attacks to disrupt or disable US 's space systems for strategic war-fighting. [1]

The recent announce from UK military that UK has developed new weapons for the online battlefield. They are ready to strike back any cyber attacks from an enemy state. [2]

Reference
[1] http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/feb/22/inside-the-ring-52480650
[2] http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/politics/3878324/Well-strike-first-in-cyber-warfare.html

Crowdsourcing - My Top 5

Figure 1 - The power of Crowdsourcing.

Kickstarter is one of the best funding place, where talented, young artists and entrepreneurs who are looking for funding to bring their creative projects to life. Kickstarter is considered as the world's  

largest funding platform for brand-new projects.

http://www.kickstarter.com

 

 

Foldit is an interesting game platform, enabling people all around the globe to contribute to important scientific research. Foldit will collect data from multiplayer online game to predict protein structures, which are known to be very useful to cure diseases. Also, based on the data, Foldit is able to figure out the humans' pattern-recognition and puzzle-solving abilities. Ideally, Foldit believes that they can teach human strategies to computers and fold proteins faster than ever.

http://fold.it

 

SpotUs is another funding platform for journal area. User can submit short tips, pitch their story/ideas for funding. SpotUs is a great community to help spur innovation in public media.

http://spot.us

DesignCrowd is a crowdsourcing sites or online market providing logo, website, print and graphic design services from all graphic designers and design studios around the world. Why pay for one designer when you can get 100 or even more with the same price.

http://www.designcrowd.com

 

UTest provides testing services that span the entire software development. The sites contain more than 50000 testers from 180 countries. This is one of the place if you want to have feedback from potential end-users from around the world.

http://www.utest.com

 

REFERENCE LIST
ONLINE ARTICLE, NO PRINT VERSION
[ 1 ] Signer R., “Top Ten Crowdsourced Funding Platforms", 2011; http://dowser.org/top-ten-crowdsourced-funding-platforms.

ONLINE ARTICLE, NO PRINT VERSION
[ 2 ] Lake C., “10 Kickass Crowdsourcing Sites For Your Business", 2009; http://econsultancy.com/us/blog/4355-10-kickass-crowdsourcing-sites-for-your-business.