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Tom Raftery

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Global VP and Internet of Things Evangelist for SAP. Previously independent analyst focusing on the Internet of Things, Energy and CleanTech, Analyst for RedMonk, leading their GreenMonk practice. Co-founder and director of hyper energy-efficient data center Cork Internet eXchange. Tom serves on the Advisory Boards of SmartCities World and RetailEverywhere.com.

IBM acquires Weather.com for Cloud, AI (aaS), and IoT

IBM acquires Weather.com for Cloud, AI (aaS), and IoT

By Tom Raftery on February 2, 2016

IBM has announced the completion of the acquisition The Weather Company’s B2B, mobile and cloud-based web-properties, weather.com, Weather Underground, The Weather Company brand and WSI, its global business-to-business brand. At first blush this may not seem like an obvious pairing, but the Weather Company’s products are not just their free apps for your smartphone, they […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Cloud, Cloud Computing, ibm, Internet of Things, IoT, Watson, watson IoT cloud

Salesforce on track to being the cloud crm provider with the lowest carbon emissions

Salesforce on track to being the cloud crm provider with the lowest carbon emissions

By Tom Raftery on January 14, 2016

We have highlighted often enough what a poor job some cloud companies are doing of making their cloud infrastructure cleaner, and being transparent about their emissions. Against that backdrop, it is heartening to see some more enlightened cloud companies doing the right thing. Salesforce announced today its second renewable energy purchase agreement. The first announcement, […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Cloud, power purchase agreements, ppas, Renewable energy, salesforce, vppas, wind energy

Epson EcoTank – an inkjet printer which doesn’t use inkjet cartridges

Epson EcoTank – an inkjet printer which doesn’t use inkjet cartridges

By Tom Raftery on November 29, 2015

“Oh boy, I just love buying inkjet cartridges”. Said no-one. Ever. They are expensive, they run out just when we need them most, or worse they clog, and there is never a recycling bin nearby when it is time to dispose of them. So what’s the choice? Laser printers? Well, they are good for black […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged ecotank, epson, inkjet, inkjet cartridge, inkjet printer, Sustainability

The future of electric utilities – change and disruption ahead

The future of electric utilities – change and disruption ahead

By Tom Raftery on November 24, 2015

The utilities industry has typically been change averse, and often for good reasons, but with the technological advances of the past few years, the low carbon imperative, and pressure from customers, utilities are going to have to figure out how to disrupt their business, or they will themselves be disrupted. I gave the opening keynote […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged demand side management, disruption, electricity, Electricity 2.0, IoT, solar, utilities

What do we do in a world where energy is in abundance?

What do we do in a world where energy is in abundance?

By Tom Raftery on July 2, 2015

The cost of solar power is falling in direct relation to the amount of solar power modules being produced. With no end in sight to this price reduction, we should soon be in a world where energy is in abundance. Moore’s Law, the law that says the number of transistors in computers doubles every two […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Energy, solar, Solar power

GreenTouch release tools and technologies to significantly reduce mobile networks energy consumption

GreenTouch release tools and technologies to significantly reduce mobile networks energy consumption

By Tom Raftery on June 19, 2015

Mobile industry consortium GreenTouch today released tools and technologies which, they claim, have the potential to reduce the energy consumption of communication networks by 98% The world is now awash with mobile phones. According to Ericsson’s June 2015 mobility report [PDF warning], the total number of mobile subscriptions globally in Q1 2015 was 7.2 billion. […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged cellular, communications networks, Electricity 2.0, energy efficiency, greentouch, Internet of Things, IoT, mobile, mobile networks, Wireless

Technology is moving us, finally, towards the vision of personalised medicine

Technology is moving us, finally, towards the vision of personalised medicine

By Tom Raftery on May 29, 2015

Personalised medicine is where a patient’s DNA is sequenced, as is the DNA of their tumour (in the case of cancer), and an individualised treatment, specific to the genotype of their cancer is designed and applied.

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Cognitive Computing, HANA, Health, medical research insights, molecular health, personalised medicine, personalized medicine, precision medicine, sap, sapphirenow, Watson

Equinix rolls out 1MW fuel cell for Silicon Valley data center

Equinix rolls out 1MW fuel cell for Silicon Valley data center

By Tom Raftery on May 22, 2015

Equinix is powering one of its Silicon Valley data centers with a 1MW Bloom Energy fuel cell

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Apple Inc., Cloud, Cloud Computing, data center, equinix, Facebook, google, greenpeace, Renewable energy

IBM to increase the amount of renewable electricity it procures

IBM to increase the amount of renewable electricity it procures

By Tom Raftery on March 27, 2015

After returning from IBM’s InterConnect conference recently we chided IBM for their aping of Amazon’s radical opaqueness concerning their cloud emissions, and their lack of innovation concerning renewables. However, some better news emerged in the last few days. The Whitehouse last week hosted a roundtable of some of the largest Federal suppliers to discuss their […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Cloud, electricity, Electricity generation, emissions, greenhouse gas emissions, ibm, Renewable energy, renewables

Apple launches ResearchKit – secure, private, open source medical research

Apple launches ResearchKit – secure, private, open source medical research

By Tom Raftery on March 11, 2015

Apple announced a new initiative at its Spring Forward event yesterday – ResearchKit. What is ResearchKit? Apple’s SVP of Operations, Jeff Williams, described it as a framework for medical researchers to create and deploy mobile apps which collect and share medical data from phone users (with their permission), and share it with the researchers. Why […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged android, apple, asthma, Blackberry, breast cancer, diabetes, ehealth, google, Health, iPhone, mobile, Open source, parkinsons, researchkit, transparency, windows

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