and running, so please give it a view and let us know what you think.
You may notice that we're planning to offer some cloud services in the future and some of you may remember that we're pretty much anti cloud, but this is from a green perspective and not due to its diverse, scalable architecture and its ease of use.
In fact, our cloud services will be green, very green actually.
Our new website is hosted on "Very PC" servers, located in a Sheffield Data Centre that is powered by renewable energy from Good Energy and owned/operated by a co-operative WebArchitects.
Anyway, its late on Sunday I've good lots of things to do tomorrow so I'm off to bed, well hopefully.
Until next time.
Sunday, 7 October 2012
Thursday, 4 October 2012
The Australia Trip
Through my involvement with the BCS/DCD CEEDA programme I was invited to undertake a short trip to Sydney between the Olympic & Paralympic games.
So, I left London on the 16th August and arrived in Sydney late in the evening of the 18th.
I had the weekend to myself so did just a little exploration of Sydney, started off by doing the usual tourist stuff, down to the Rocks and the Harbour Bridge and then visited the shopping area.
I did notice that most Australians were wearing coats and scarfs, this in 68degrees and sunny, I found out later that 68 degrees is cold to them, after all it was winter (a bit like our summer to be honest!)
On the Sunday I trotted down to Darling Harbour to check out where I was going to meet a linked in contact. I then recalled a friend telling me that a good trip is to jump on a ferry and take lunch in one of the outlying areas, so multi-trip all day ticket duly purchased I jumped on the first ferry and off I went, and ended up at Circular Quay, which for those of you who don't know Sydney, is the main ferry terminal.
So, my attempt to get to an outlying area and take lunch was being seriously thwarted.
No worries, I then took the next rivercat to Parramatta, the absolute furthest place I could find on the map and a route that goes past the Olympic Stadium. I reckon I must have been the only person to be at both places in a 3 week period.
At Parramatta there seemed to be a lot of people waiting for the ferry and I was worried about getting back so I just turned around and came straight back home, lunch was McDonalds.
The next day I arose bright and early to meet the client and to conduct the first of three CEEDA assessments.
As these assessments are in the audit stage I am not allowed to tell you all who they are but all will be revealed in a later post.
I visited two data centres, one was owned and operated by the client and the other was a colo facility that had my main client has their anchor tenant, so 3 CEEDA assessments, one Owner Occupier, one CoLo, and one CoLo Tenant.
I was very impressed with the both facilities and this is reflected in their recommended awards, although they still need to get through the audit stage.
I was also taken out to dinner by the client, we went to Cafe Sydney, which overlooks Circular Quay with the Harbour Bridge on the left hand side and the Opera House and the Right, Sydney set fair.
On the Tuesday evening I met my linked in friend down at Darling Harbour and was promptly whisked off in the boat over to the Zoo.
One of my most enduring memories of Australia and Sydney, will be the view from the boat looking back towards the CBD and the Harbour Bridge with the sun setting on a background of purples, oranges, golds and crimsons of a Sydney sunset, breathtaking!
On Wednesday I gave a talk at the Australian Computer Society on the topic of "Is the Cloud Green?" and outlined the EUCoC and CEEDA programme to the attendees.
I also met up with a few old friends the following morning to discuss some possible business ventures prior to a quick trip to Parramatta to meet with Nick Parfitt from DCD and my flight back to the UK.
All in all, a very successful trip and one I look forward to taking again sooner rather than later and possibly for a lot longer.
Until next time, keep up to date with our new website which should be live this weekend (7th October) for news and events Carbon3IT Ltd will be attending, speaking at or generally just mooching about at.
So, I left London on the 16th August and arrived in Sydney late in the evening of the 18th.
I had the weekend to myself so did just a little exploration of Sydney, started off by doing the usual tourist stuff, down to the Rocks and the Harbour Bridge and then visited the shopping area.
I did notice that most Australians were wearing coats and scarfs, this in 68degrees and sunny, I found out later that 68 degrees is cold to them, after all it was winter (a bit like our summer to be honest!)
On the Sunday I trotted down to Darling Harbour to check out where I was going to meet a linked in contact. I then recalled a friend telling me that a good trip is to jump on a ferry and take lunch in one of the outlying areas, so multi-trip all day ticket duly purchased I jumped on the first ferry and off I went, and ended up at Circular Quay, which for those of you who don't know Sydney, is the main ferry terminal.
So, my attempt to get to an outlying area and take lunch was being seriously thwarted.
No worries, I then took the next rivercat to Parramatta, the absolute furthest place I could find on the map and a route that goes past the Olympic Stadium. I reckon I must have been the only person to be at both places in a 3 week period.
At Parramatta there seemed to be a lot of people waiting for the ferry and I was worried about getting back so I just turned around and came straight back home, lunch was McDonalds.
The next day I arose bright and early to meet the client and to conduct the first of three CEEDA assessments.
As these assessments are in the audit stage I am not allowed to tell you all who they are but all will be revealed in a later post.
I visited two data centres, one was owned and operated by the client and the other was a colo facility that had my main client has their anchor tenant, so 3 CEEDA assessments, one Owner Occupier, one CoLo, and one CoLo Tenant.
I was very impressed with the both facilities and this is reflected in their recommended awards, although they still need to get through the audit stage.
I was also taken out to dinner by the client, we went to Cafe Sydney, which overlooks Circular Quay with the Harbour Bridge on the left hand side and the Opera House and the Right, Sydney set fair.
On the Tuesday evening I met my linked in friend down at Darling Harbour and was promptly whisked off in the boat over to the Zoo.
One of my most enduring memories of Australia and Sydney, will be the view from the boat looking back towards the CBD and the Harbour Bridge with the sun setting on a background of purples, oranges, golds and crimsons of a Sydney sunset, breathtaking!
On Wednesday I gave a talk at the Australian Computer Society on the topic of "Is the Cloud Green?" and outlined the EUCoC and CEEDA programme to the attendees.
I also met up with a few old friends the following morning to discuss some possible business ventures prior to a quick trip to Parramatta to meet with Nick Parfitt from DCD and my flight back to the UK.
All in all, a very successful trip and one I look forward to taking again sooner rather than later and possibly for a lot longer.
Until next time, keep up to date with our new website which should be live this weekend (7th October) for news and events Carbon3IT Ltd will be attending, speaking at or generally just mooching about at.
Thursday, 6 September 2012
What a summer!, and what an Autumn to look forward to.
Hello to all our followers and blog readers.
Well, what a summer we've had. I was lucky enough to be selected as an Olympic and Paralympic volunteer and spent 4 weeks at Wimbledon and Greenwich Park respectively.
What can I say, the fact that there were no reported Olympic technology failures (as far as I know, and certainly not at Wimbledon or Greenwich Park in my time there) is testament to the systems put in place.
I can reveal that at Wimbledon we used the existing IT infrastructure and basically just changed the patch leads into our devices, installation commenced immediately after the Wimbledon tournament had finished and we were the first olympic location to be completed technology-wise, well we did have 3 weeks!
At Greenwich Park, the task was, I understand, a little more fraught, the temporary buildings and site infrastructure were delayed to the weather and at many points completion in time for the start of the event looked in jeopardy.
But, due to the professionalism and sheer hard work of the venue technology managers and all the relevent support personnel, BT, Atos, Acer, Xerox and the AV crew everything turned out all right.
I also went to Australia for a week on a working trip (more of that in a later post) but on the way I watched "Marigold Hotel" where I heard the following from one of the characters "Everything will turn out alright in the end, if it is not alright then it cannot be the end"
So, even if the circumstances seem to indicate that you will not meet your target, and everything is not alright, then it cannot be the end.
Having been on may projects, and at some points troubled by a lack of progress, I've always been part of teams that pull through, so I'll be using the above phrase in future.
And what a future, but I have to get some paying work completed so updates on this and other subject wil have to wait a little while (probably over the weekend)
Until then , be safe and happy and remember "If it is not alright, then it is not the end!"
Well, what a summer we've had. I was lucky enough to be selected as an Olympic and Paralympic volunteer and spent 4 weeks at Wimbledon and Greenwich Park respectively.
What can I say, the fact that there were no reported Olympic technology failures (as far as I know, and certainly not at Wimbledon or Greenwich Park in my time there) is testament to the systems put in place.
I can reveal that at Wimbledon we used the existing IT infrastructure and basically just changed the patch leads into our devices, installation commenced immediately after the Wimbledon tournament had finished and we were the first olympic location to be completed technology-wise, well we did have 3 weeks!
At Greenwich Park, the task was, I understand, a little more fraught, the temporary buildings and site infrastructure were delayed to the weather and at many points completion in time for the start of the event looked in jeopardy.
But, due to the professionalism and sheer hard work of the venue technology managers and all the relevent support personnel, BT, Atos, Acer, Xerox and the AV crew everything turned out all right.
I also went to Australia for a week on a working trip (more of that in a later post) but on the way I watched "Marigold Hotel" where I heard the following from one of the characters "Everything will turn out alright in the end, if it is not alright then it cannot be the end"
So, even if the circumstances seem to indicate that you will not meet your target, and everything is not alright, then it cannot be the end.
Having been on may projects, and at some points troubled by a lack of progress, I've always been part of teams that pull through, so I'll be using the above phrase in future.
And what a future, but I have to get some paying work completed so updates on this and other subject wil have to wait a little while (probably over the weekend)
Until then , be safe and happy and remember "If it is not alright, then it is not the end!"
Friday, 6 July 2012
Carbon3IT Ltd is closing down.....
for the summer.
I've been lucky enough to get an Olympic Volunteer role and will be providing IT Technical Support at two venues, my shifts start on the 21st July and run until the 4th August, then I'm off on a long overdue family holiday, back on the 13th Aug.
Then I have 4 CEEDA assessments to carry out, 1 in Scotland, and 3 in Sydney Australia.
I return from down under on the 25th August to start my Paralympic shifts and finish in early September.
We'll get all our outstanding quotations and reports to clients sorted by the 20th July and then we'll be providing limited support during games time.
If you wish to contact us about a new project please email us on our usual contact email addresses and we'll be back to you asap with some dates for an initial meeting.
We were lucky enough to be asked to attend the Green Business Awards this week as a guest of the BCS, we're also providing some assistance in the creation of a new Green IT practical exam and there are other very interesting projects in the pipeline.
We're just waiting on a contract from a client and we hope to be able to provide you with news on this soon.
We're also organising an event to take place in the West Midlands on the 22nd November as previously advised and we're getting close to being able to make an announcement.
Our website is also under review and we should be going live in the Autumn.
As always you'll hear about it on twitter first, followed by an in depth review on this blog.
The rain is still falling here and it seems that summer has stalled, we think that the back end of summer will probably turn out alright but we dont tend to make a habit of forecasting.
Oh, if any readers of this blog want to be a part of our event in the West Midlands on the 22nd November please contact us for more information.
I've been lucky enough to get an Olympic Volunteer role and will be providing IT Technical Support at two venues, my shifts start on the 21st July and run until the 4th August, then I'm off on a long overdue family holiday, back on the 13th Aug.
Then I have 4 CEEDA assessments to carry out, 1 in Scotland, and 3 in Sydney Australia.
I return from down under on the 25th August to start my Paralympic shifts and finish in early September.
We'll get all our outstanding quotations and reports to clients sorted by the 20th July and then we'll be providing limited support during games time.
If you wish to contact us about a new project please email us on our usual contact email addresses and we'll be back to you asap with some dates for an initial meeting.
We were lucky enough to be asked to attend the Green Business Awards this week as a guest of the BCS, we're also providing some assistance in the creation of a new Green IT practical exam and there are other very interesting projects in the pipeline.
We're just waiting on a contract from a client and we hope to be able to provide you with news on this soon.
We're also organising an event to take place in the West Midlands on the 22nd November as previously advised and we're getting close to being able to make an announcement.
Our website is also under review and we should be going live in the Autumn.
As always you'll hear about it on twitter first, followed by an in depth review on this blog.
The rain is still falling here and it seems that summer has stalled, we think that the back end of summer will probably turn out alright but we dont tend to make a habit of forecasting.
Oh, if any readers of this blog want to be a part of our event in the West Midlands on the 22nd November please contact us for more information.
Tuesday, 19 June 2012
At last some joined up thinking
We seen a number of reference to this news item Olympics Site Data Centres and think that this is a brilliant idea, the site itself is well equipped with fibre links and power should not be an issue.
I only have two small things to ask, the first is that the whole facility be built to the EU Code of Conduct for Data Centres and that a BCS CEEDA assessment is then carried out.
The first is actually going to have to happen as the Governments green IT strategy states that all facilities should be a participant to the code by April 2014.
The second is down to the individual councils themselves but the cost of a CEEDA spread over all the 33 boroughs will bring the cost down to less than £500 per council, well worth it!
One wonders if this is going to be a London Local Authority Cloud?
Well thats my 2p worth.
Very busy at the moment with all sorts of green and sustainable IT stuff so off to work I go.
More updates soon, until then enjoy the footie tonight and lets all pray for an England win.
I only have two small things to ask, the first is that the whole facility be built to the EU Code of Conduct for Data Centres and that a BCS CEEDA assessment is then carried out.
The first is actually going to have to happen as the Governments green IT strategy states that all facilities should be a participant to the code by April 2014.
The second is down to the individual councils themselves but the cost of a CEEDA spread over all the 33 boroughs will bring the cost down to less than £500 per council, well worth it!
One wonders if this is going to be a London Local Authority Cloud?
Well thats my 2p worth.
Very busy at the moment with all sorts of green and sustainable IT stuff so off to work I go.
More updates soon, until then enjoy the footie tonight and lets all pray for an England win.
Friday, 15 June 2012
Update
Well, it has been sometime since our last update so here goes:
CEEDA, we've completed another 2 CEEDA assessments in the past few weeks, as the reports have yet to be submitted we cannot comment on these at the present time but further information will be available on our website when it is released.
We've also got another 4 CEEDA's scheduled for July and August
And talking of websites, we're undertaking a refresh project and this is scheduled to be released sometime in September, we've got our team looking at new technologies and we're convinced that the entire website will have a brand new look and provide even more information on Green IT and our activities.
We're also planning an event to take place in the Midlands on the 22nd November 2012, futher information and details will be available on the new updated website soon.
We'll also be building a new website just for this event, so watch this space, but our twitter feed will be the best place to get advanced information, details of the speakers, exhibition stands and registration details on the event.
We're very exciting about this event, but as with all external events it takes time to organise so bear with us, we working very hard on this.
We've completed our Greentrac trial at our school and we'll be reporting back to the project sponsor next week, where we hope to expand the trial to more schools in the area, so again watch this space for an update.
We've been a number of events recently, notably the Data Centre Alliance, and various EU CoC updates.
We'd like to tell you more about some of our other activities, but these are at early stages of engagement and as such we can't really talk about them.....yet
Finally, we enjoyed the Jubilee festivities although the weather was horrid, but we're looking forward to the England game tonight at Euro 2012 and of course a little matter of the Olympic Games in less than 45 days.
So, we're very busy at the present time but we hope to be a little more regular in our updates on the blog, but the realy important news will always go out via twitter, so if you're not following us, you really should.
we use two twitter accounts @carbon3it and @greenit_carbon3.
Until next time, enjoy.
CEEDA, we've completed another 2 CEEDA assessments in the past few weeks, as the reports have yet to be submitted we cannot comment on these at the present time but further information will be available on our website when it is released.
We've also got another 4 CEEDA's scheduled for July and August
And talking of websites, we're undertaking a refresh project and this is scheduled to be released sometime in September, we've got our team looking at new technologies and we're convinced that the entire website will have a brand new look and provide even more information on Green IT and our activities.
We're also planning an event to take place in the Midlands on the 22nd November 2012, futher information and details will be available on the new updated website soon.
We'll also be building a new website just for this event, so watch this space, but our twitter feed will be the best place to get advanced information, details of the speakers, exhibition stands and registration details on the event.
We're very exciting about this event, but as with all external events it takes time to organise so bear with us, we working very hard on this.
We've completed our Greentrac trial at our school and we'll be reporting back to the project sponsor next week, where we hope to expand the trial to more schools in the area, so again watch this space for an update.
We've been a number of events recently, notably the Data Centre Alliance, and various EU CoC updates.
We'd like to tell you more about some of our other activities, but these are at early stages of engagement and as such we can't really talk about them.....yet
Finally, we enjoyed the Jubilee festivities although the weather was horrid, but we're looking forward to the England game tonight at Euro 2012 and of course a little matter of the Olympic Games in less than 45 days.
So, we're very busy at the present time but we hope to be a little more regular in our updates on the blog, but the realy important news will always go out via twitter, so if you're not following us, you really should.
we use two twitter accounts @carbon3it and @greenit_carbon3.
Until next time, enjoy.
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