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23
Mar 10

The Joulemeter – How much Power does a VM Use?

A team at Microsoft Research has been working on measuring energy usage in IT, and has come up with a novel piece of software called Joulemeter. From the website

Joulemeter is a software based mechanism to measure the energy usage of virtual machines (VMs), servers, desktops, laptops, and even individual softwares running on a computer.

Joulemeter estimates the energy usage of a VM, computer, or software by measuring the hardware resources (CPU, disk, memory, screen etc) being used and converting the resource usage to actual power usage based on automatically learned realistic power models.

They’ll apparent be offering a download of the software. In the meantime you can read the abstract.

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13
Feb 10

Layerboom to present at Under the Radar

As a start up doing big things, when we first heard about “Under the Radar” event, we figured how are we going to get on the radar for these folks ? We sent in our application, talked with Debbie and Jasmine  to pitch our product, the now so popular BoomBox. At the end of the day, among an ocean of applications and good ideas surrounding the cloud space, LayerBoom has been chosen to present at “Under the Radar” on April 16, 2010 in Mountain View, California. So if you’re around the Bay area in mid April, we look forward to seeing you there.

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30
Jan 10

Guy Kawasaki drops by…

It’s no secret that Layerboom is part of Bootup Labs, a “seed accelerator” helping starts ups spawn locally. As part of the Bootup family, meeting awesome people is one of the best perks that comes with this. One such awesome person arrived this week, Guy Kawasaki, the awesome guru to us in the startup world because of his great advice and feedback from listening to our start up ideas.

Guy actually spent a full day at Bootup with us, going through every company with us on a one on one basis, providing honest and sometimes brutally honest feedback. Despite all the bruised egos he left behind the office, I’m sure we’re all a little bit better and clearer on our message.  Here is a picture of Guy with the Layerboom team.

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