There are critics of the Open Source Data Center Initiative. To be clear we don’t expect this to work for everyone. An example that illustrates the different approach is this IntoWorld article discussing the Google Android Phone vs. Apple iPhone. Some people want the iPhone, some want the Android. The Open Source Data Center Initiative is going to appeal to the users who consider the Android for its openness. MARCH 03, 2010
Open Source Data Center Initiative openness, flexibility, and methods not for everyone
Is Smart Grid opportunity in Residential or Commercial? I voted Commercial, but the popular media topic is Residential
I’ve watched the industry come up with energy monitoring solutions over the past few years, and I am amazed at how much attention the residential market gets vs. commercial. I determined that the commercial market and data centers being the epitome of the right place for energy efficiency. Which is part of what got me to spend more time in data centers. Data Centers are the early adopters of the ideas, and we’ll get the rest of commercial to follow next like Hospitals.
A different interpretation of “Open Source” in an Intelligence Analysis scenario that defines how GreenM3 works public data
I ran across the term Open Source Intelligence. Open source intelligence (OSINT) is a form of intelligence collection management that involves finding, selecting, and acquiring information from publicly available sources and analyzing it to produce actionable intelligence.
Defining a Data Center API, on the list of things to do for Open Source Data Center Initiative
I have spent so much of my life working with Operating System nerds both at Apple and Microsoft that I take it for granted the concepts of an API.
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Having been an ex-Microsoft, I learned this lesson if you have a gov’t agency sign an NDA or confidentiality agreement watch out for Freedom of Information Act.
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