Enabling Ecological Data Centers: Rackable Systems CEO Mark Barrenchea (Part 1)

Mark Barrenechea is president and CEO of Rackable Systems. Before joining Rackable he served as executive vice president and CTO for Computer Associates. Prior to CA, he was senior vice president of Applications Development at Oracle and reported directly to Larry Ellison. Earlier, he served as vice president of Development at Tesseract, which was purchased

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Closing the Innovation Gap (Part 1)

[This Thanksgiving weekend I’m featuring excerpts from the first chapter of Closing the Innovation Gap: Reigniting the Spark of Creativity in a Global Economy by renowned entrepreneur and guest author, Judy Estrin. According to Estrin, innovation comes from the interplay of three drivers of creative change: research, development and application, what she calls the “Innovation Ecosystem”.

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Engineering Algae-based Bio Fuel: Valcent CEO Glen Kertz (Part 7)

SM: Is there anything else you would like to discuss that is relevant to your company? GK: There is another project that is driving part of our company economics. That is the high density vertical growing system; we are rolling it out as a commercial product.

Mumbai Attacks

India seems to have now become a target for Islamic terrorist attacks and if the “success” of the current crisis is any indication, this could completely destabilize the economic development process for the country. India has the third-largest Muslim population in the world, with 154 million Muslims. If a Hindu-Muslim conflict blows up, we’re in

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Happy Thanksgiving

Readers, I wish you a very happy Thanksgiving. And to those who are facing difficult times, I have this to say: Despair is an insult to the future.

Deal Radar 2008: Creative Water Solutions

Palm, corn and sugarcane may be getting a lot of headlines in the mainstream media as the world seeks alternates to fossil fuels, but as my interview with Glen Kertz shows, a huge variety of plant species can be used in Cleantech solutions. Today’s Deal Radar post discusses another use of plants in cleantech. Creative

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Judy Estrin

Judy Estrin is CEO of JLABS, LLC, formerly known as Packet Design Management Company, LLC. She is the author of Closing the Innovation Gap, published in September 2008. Beginning in 1981 Estrin co-founded three other successful technology companies: Bridge Communications, Network Computing Devices and Precept Software. In 1998 Cisco Systems acquired Precept, and Estrin became Cisco’s chief

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Engineering Algae-based Bio Fuel: Valcent CEO Glen Kertz (Part 6)

SM: It sounds like you are still in the early stages of your startup in terms of the overall balance of technology. Could you address your reasoning for doing this in the public market? GK: When I first had this idea the market was not what it is now. Back then I could not get

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