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Silver Spring Networks: Intelligent Utility Networking. Nati Shalom's Blog: The Interactive Cloud (Part II - Adding. In part I of of this topic, I covered the general concept and motivation behind the "Interactive Cloud". I described how the interactive cloud enables applications to be managed in a similar way to the way we run our business. In this post, I discuss further details of what it means to add operational awareness to the application. To do that, I refer to our specific experience in GigaSpaces. Towards the end of the post, I point out specific code snippets as an illustration of that model. Background GigaSpaces 7.0 Application Cluster Management API is an API for managing application clusters, and for giving applications operational awareness.

In this type of environment, troubleshooting a production system can be a real nightmare for everyone involved. We realized that just adding more probes and log levels and using some sort of CEP (Complex Event Processing) to parse all the garbage we were going to generate, on a continuous basis, was not going to be good enough. 1. 2. 3. Identifying Brain Differences In People With ADHD. Climate Watch: Unlocking the Grid - KQED QUEST Television Story. With the race on to reduce global warming and fossil fuel dependency, experts in alternative energy see a bright future for renewable resources like wind, solar, hydro-power and geothermal energy. QUEST and Climate Watch team up to look at the "Smart Grid" of the future and how it might be improved to more cleanly and efficiently keep the lights on in California.

Related Explore: alternative energy, climate watch, kqed, pbs, QUEST, smart grid Category: Climate, Energy, Environment, Television About the Author (Author Archive) Sarah Kass is a writer, director, and producer whose specialty is long-format documentaries, primarily for broadcast television. SmartSynch :: The Smart Grid Intelligence Company. San Francisco Solar Map. IBM launches ‘Strategic Carbon Management’ Program · Environment. IBM is launching a new Strategic Carbon Management program which it says will help clients make their carbon footprints “smarter” and “smaller.” The new service is billed as a tool that will help clients analyze their CO2 emissions and energy use at scales ranging from a single department to a worldwide operation. It considers a wide range of business operations including travel, transportation systems, datacenters and IT systems, manufacturing and distribution centers, office facilities, retail space, and R&D sites. The system assesses a company’s current emissions, identifies gaps and sets improvement goals.

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