Will the Elastic Cloud Conquer The Smart Grid Data Tsunami?

Greentech Media submits: by Eric Wesoff

Oracle this week explained its plans to push into the $72 billion cloud-computing market.

By Greentech Media: By Jeff St. John Smart meters aren't just remote-controlled utility cash registers. They can also be valuable sensors for utilities, telling them about voltage, frequency, power factor and other such data that's needed to manage the modern power grid. There's a catch, however — and it lies in the utility back office.

By Greentech Media: By Chet Geschickter

Sources are telling us that some Oracle employees got pink slips on Friday. All of them are from Sun Microsystems' hardware groups.

By Greentech Media: Last week, GTM Research unveiled its latest smart grid research report, The Networked Grid 150: The End-to-End Smart Grid Vendor Ecosystem Profiles and Rankings. This article is the second in a series of perspectives from the report's author. To read the first perspective, click here.

By Greentech Media: By Jeff St. John

By Greentech Media: Here’s General Electric’s (GE) smart grid-as-a-service pitch. The city utility of Norcross, Ga. wants a smart grid, but doesn’t have the money to buy one for itself. GE’s Grid IQ Solutions as a Service will build it for a monthly fee, and then run it all from a giant cloud computing platform in Atlanta.