Some personal news...

biwirth — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 03:24:00 GMT

Hello Dear Blog Readers,

(hmmm....that kinda sounds like the beginning of one of those SPAM emails)

I wanted to let you all know I am moving on from Microsoft and shall no longer be blogging here. I'll be moving an archive of these posts to my website http://www.greenitstrategy.com and shall continue blogging there on Green IT.

So what will I be doing now?

Well, I have decided to take some time off, write a book and maybe look into starting my own business. Regardless, you can always catch me through my website and please do feel free to visit me there.

Thank you to everyone who contacted me with their Green IT questions over the past two years and gave me feedback. I really appreciate your support and good luck with your own Green IT initiatives.

Kind Regards,

Bianca AKA Little Miss Enviro Geek

Microsoft TechFest: Tiny Web Services for monitoring energy

biwirth — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 02:58:00 GMT

At the recent Microsoft Research TechFest 2008 a couple of great Sustainable IT solutions were showcased - one of which was a small chip based device called Tiny Web Services.

The Tiny Web services device is built on .NET framework and essentially it is a chip with a small amount of code, that communicates using WDSL/TCP/IP over 802.15.4 radio to the Internet and other devices in the home/office network. As an example, you could monitor the temperature of a room and have it adjust dynamically to help reduce heating/cooling costs. Alternately things like weather information can be sent from the Internet to the device to adjust metrics, like temperature.

This is an excellent innovation for the future of data centres cooling management. It's not available now as its still in testing but great to talk about when discussing the future of Microsoft Sustainable IT with customers.

Checkout my article about Microsoft Tiny Web Services for further discussion: http://geekstrategy.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=59&Itemid=42

Little Miss Enviro Geek : Microsoft TechFest

Some personal news...

Microsoft TechFest: Tiny Web Services for monitoring energy