Sanity-checking Twitter’s Valuation
Twitter has been valued at $1bn, but is that really sane? Technology entrepreneur Kate Craig-Wood gets out her calculator….
Kate is a multi-award winning technology entrepreneur; the co-founder & managing director of Memset, the UK's leading provider of 'green' dedicated servers & virtual machines. Memset was the UK's first Carbon Neutral ISP, and Kate is a nationally renowned advocate of green IT, energy efficient data centre technologies and cloud/utility computing She is the youngest-ever main board member of Intellect, the UK's high-tech trade association, is the chair of their Climate Change Group, and is also the external relations officer of the BCS Data Centre Specialist Group. In her spare time (hah! ;), she is also currently doing a collaborative PhD with Surrey Uni's Computing Dept. in Cloud Computing & national digital infrastructure.
Categories: Environment | Security | Girl-geeks | Technovation | Business
ICT: Part of the solution to climate change
As the day-to-day use of ICT continues to rise, concern is growing about the carbon emissions indirectly caused by the manufacture of the electronics that litter our lives and the steady rise in the electricity required to power our personal devices and data centres. However, the debate should be less about ICT’s tiny contribution to global warming and more about how ICT can be used to reduce carbon emissions across society.
Embedded energy of servers & PC’s
Over the last two years there has been a lot of debate about what the embedded energy of a PC or server is compared with how much power it uses. I have crunched the numbers and believe that the figure for a server is about 1,000,000 Watt-hours (1MWh). Here is how I worked it out, and why it means that you should sweat the desktops but replace the servers.
Girl-Tech: The next generation
Multi-award-winning IT entrepreneur and Intellect main board member, Kate Craig-Wood, looks at the falling numbers of girls entering the technology professions from her unique perspective, and the great need to encourage more girls towards technology careers.
Supply Chain Disintegration: A better way to buy IT
Unfortunately IT suppliers are not immune from the global economy and can fail just like any other company. I believe the best way you can protect yourself is by disintegrating the IT services supply chain. I shall explain…