More ominously, they have the ability to shut down vital parts of the global information grid on which the military now depends to carry out every activity, from intelligence gathering to missile defense to equipment maintenance.
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The problem that forward thinkers on cyber security like Kendall, Alexander, and former deputy defense secretary Bill Lynn face is that the existing information grid and acquisition system have spawned constituencies with deep roots in the political system.
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This would help consumers save on their energy use, reduce the number of new power plants that need to be built, and provide more accurate information to grid operators about how to allocate electricity use.
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In a "smart" grid, the meters allow the various information points to "talk" to each other, providing more transparent information to everyone connected to the grid.
After all, the phone network was built to carry information, the power grid wasn't.
Pricing information aside, utilities and grid operators could more accurately pinpoint the location of a problem in the electrical network--eliminating the need for repair crews to scramble for hours to determine where a power failure has occurred.
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Thus computing based on the Internet is like a grid designed to deliver information and resources as reliably as power companies deliver electricity.
Other factors that will increase storage capacity growth are the creation and sharing of user generated content and the growth of machine to machine communication (and thus information storage) such as smart grid networks, video surveillance, big science in astronomy and physics and other emerging automated users of storage capacity.
This week, the company put its money where its mouth is, plugging its own information technology department into the new Sun Grid.
Depending on how fancy each cable provider wants to get, the information can be presented as a limited grid or as images.
Historically, the electric grid lacks these digital gears to ferry information back and forth through a communication network.
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The Smart Garage -- smart cars hooked through smart buildings to a smart grid -- will soon be swapping electricity and information for mutual advantage.
The survey also found that the majority of respondents lack a comprehensive vision of how enterprise-wide information and technology infrastructure will work with current and future smart grid deployments.
ABB, a Swiss-Swedish engineering giant, has also developed brainy software that tracks grid flows several times a second and feeds the information to control systems that can respond within a minute or so.
Finally, both of these changes are being enabled through the integration of smart grid technology in the power transmission and distribution grid, which moves not only electrons but also information effectively through our energy networks.
Since November, IBM Chief Executive Sam Palmisano has been making futurist statements about the need for a "smarter" national infrastructure, using information technology to upgrade the nation's roads, electric grid and health care system in a bid to increase their efficiency -- and to make America more internationally competitive and to create thousands of jobs.
If millions of people send just a little bit back to the grid, peer-to-peer just like we send information on the internet, that's distributed power.
As a result, members can better navigate the transforming energy and utilities environment, collecting insights from the vast amount of information pervading their networks and systems, add further intelligence to the smart grid and uncover new ways that improve business and operational outcomes.
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Sun's announcement marks the information technology industry's latest step toward "utility computing, " a grid system in which companies pipe in data processing and storage from faraway server farms, says Nicholas Carr, author of The Big Switch, a book on utility computing published earlier this week.
The advent of a range of information, communications, and energy technologies provides us with an opportunity to upgrade the grid in a manner that will enable it to operate more efficiently, more reliably, and to spur innovation.
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Rather, it would also communicate to the user information useful in decision-making, about not just usage, but market prices, and grid conditions as well.
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Information about the source, price and environmental impact of power is unavailable for most of the power grid.
The basic premise of the smart grid is that when implemented fully, it will enable a better flow of data and information between utilities, customers and third parties.
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