A Lean Greentech Approach
I am a greentech enthusiast and I have been closely following the greentech VC investment landscape. The VCs like Kleiner Perkins who have had a large greentech portfolio including companies such as Bloom Energy are scaling down on greentech investment…
Crunching the numbers in search of a greener cloud
Although sometimes portrayed as a big computer in the sky, the reality of cloud computing is far more mundane. Clouds run on physical hardware, located in data centres, connected to one another and to their customers via high speed networks. All of that hardware must be powered and cooled, and all of those offices must [...]
eHarmony Says Cloud Is Expensive
One of the biggest selling points made by many of the cloud vendors is the lower cost of cloud services compared to the in-house solutions. Even though traditional vendors pushed back on this idea, it didn’t stand out because they usually mixed FUD with some solid arguments on the cost. In fact, for a long [...]
Economic and Environmental advantages of Cloud Computing
Image via Wikipedia Last month, I was talking to a former client who runs managed hosting by renting network resources in a local data center. He was talking to me about his difficulties in disposing off the pre-owned "old" servers. I was telling him that he should put those servers to use under a cloud [...]
Got an idea for Green Computing?
Image via Wikipedia Well, Green is the new buzzword in today’s technological world. The growing realization about the harmful impact of global climate change is driving the new trend towards green technology. We have seen how people are seeing the green benefits of virtualization and other developments in computing. One of the merits of cloud [...]
