It was with great interest that I watched from the sidelines as a market event caused prices to skyrocket to $20,000/MWh and stay around that level for almost 6 hours. The feedback and speculation on this event was immediate. Market players who had been burnt immediately responded in outrage. Customers with spot exposure were up to a week slower, perhaps because the information had not yet filtered into their bills.
One of the latest trends to hit IT is virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). Charles Beeler, a partner at Ed Dorado Ventures, talked briefly about the potential of VDI on a recent interview on the Cube on SiliconAngle.com, And while most of these trends start in large enterprises and then move down to medium-sized corporations, desktop virtualisation is different. It is relatively easy to implement and potentially can benefit any company with fairly large populations of employees working on desktop computers in an office, particularly if they are all using a fairly small population of applications.
Mr Curtis Clark, IBM’s Global Director for Regional and Local Government, and Director of the IBM Institute for Electronic Government talks Smart Government.
Based in Washington D.C, Mr Clark focuses on emerging trends and directions in the public sector and works with governments on strategies for implementing innovative programs and services, designed to more effectively and efficiently meet the needs of citizens, business, and government employees. The IBM Institute for Electronic Government, in conjunction with the IBM’s Centre for the Business of Government, serves as IBM’s focal point for thought leadership – sharing research, experience and best practices with public sector clients – focusing on public policy issues, organisational and management practices, and technologies that can enable innovation in the public sector.
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Small Businesses are busy places, very very busy places and often anything IT related gets shuffled to the bottom of the pile. This occurs for no other reason than the fact that there aren’t enough knowledgeable people with spare cycles to investigate this area whilst doing their day job.
