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 [...]
Solar power in the data centre – solution or window dressing?
Most of us recognise that the Earth is warming and that — despite our planet’s temperatures having dramatically risen and fallen before — we humans must accept some measure of responsibility for the current changes. Already consuming at least 1.1-1.5% of global power, and only forecast to grow ever-more rapacious, the data centres that power our information [...]
Barack Obama and Cloud Computing
Image by Getty Images via Daylife Let me take this opportunity to offer my congratulations to President Elect, Mr. Barack Obama. I will also take this opportunity to address what his election means to Cloud Computing. Well, he is not planning to campaign for Cloud Computing. He is also not planning to use social networking [...]
