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Solar power in the data centre – solution or window dressing?

By Paul Miller on March 19, 2012

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 […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged Amazon Web Services, Apple, cloud computing, data center, data centre, energy consumption, Enterprise Computing, environment, global warming, green energy, james hamilton, Oregon, solar energy, solar power

Cloud Computing And Green

Cloud Computing And Green

By Krishnan Subramanian on February 8, 2010

Image via Wikipedia One of the buzzwords we hear in the marketing campaigns of this cloud era is the concept of Green. Some of the cloud providers target our guilt to sell their services. They clearly understand that most of us are very worried about the impact of global climate change and we are willing […]

Posted in Analysis | Tagged cloud computing, environment, global warming, green IT, saas | 1 Response

Google Steps In To Fight Deforestation By Tapping The Cloud

Google Steps In To Fight Deforestation By Tapping The Cloud

By Krishnan Subramanian on December 10, 2009

Image via Wikipedia At Copenhagen, different governments representing many countries in the world are working hard to save, oops, finish off the world from with Global Warming. While the US government is struck inside the clutches of political pressures, some major industry players are stepping in to help fight off global warming using the advances […]

Posted in Design | Tagged cloud computing, copenhagen, deforestation, environment, google

Cloud Computing's Green Mantra And How Finland Is Doing It Right

Cloud Computing's Green Mantra And How Finland Is Doing It Right

By Krishnan Subramanian on November 30, 2009

One of the selling points for Cloud Computing is the idea of green. Vendors and evangelists get excited while talking about the “green-ness” of Cloud Computing. Part of it is plain marketing nonsense and part of it is true. In this era where a huge industry survives based on its ability to numb out the […]

Posted in Strategy | Tagged cloud computing, data center, environment, green | 8 Responses

More Gilding the Lily? On SaaS and the Green Revolution

More Gilding the Lily? On SaaS and the Green Revolution

By Ben Kepes on September 28, 2009

I’m a bit of a curmudgeon – recently I was critical over lily-gilding in the cloud computing space – in that instance it was a case of someone holding out a cloud deployment as something way more than it was. This time it’s the turn of greenwash to come under the spotlight. Recently Chris Thorman […]

Posted in General | Tagged cloud computing, environment, greewash, saas

Sustainable Business: a Viewpoint From a Skeptic

Sustainable Business: a Viewpoint From a Skeptic

By Dan Morrill on July 16, 2009

I am not sure we are ready for a sustainable business process, but Kevin Wilhelm, the CEO of Sustainable Business Consulting Group a consulting company here in Seattle will be speaking on this subject and plugging his new book on the Return on Sustainability. The question I have, and one that will hopefully be answered […]

Posted in General | Tagged business, Business process, Company, environment, Recycling, seattle, sustainability, Sustainable business

Green Flight Across the Atlantic

Green Flight Across the Atlantic

By Zoli Erdos on June 9, 2009

American Airlines is about to test eco-friendly new technology on it’s regular flight between Paris and Miami this Thursday.  Unfortunately it’s still not the Flying Saucer design, but this much more boring Boeing 767-300 equipped with all the new technology.What exactly that new technology is, is a bit hard to decipher from this highly buzzword-compliant […]

Posted in General | Tagged air travel, airlines, american airlines, aviation, eco-friendly, environment, green flight | 3 Responses

Home – World Premiere, on World Environment Day

Home – World Premiere, on World Environment Day

By Zoli Erdos on June 5, 2009

I’m receiving congratulatory notes – in the age of Facebook and Plaxo there is no hiding.  Oh, well, I’m happy to have reached 21, at least I can get a drink now. But June 5th is a memorable day for other reasons. This year it is the 20th anniversary of the of Tiananmen Square  crackdown […]

Posted in General | Tagged environment, home, homeproject, world environment day, youtube | 2 Responses

Stop the Paper Madness

Stop the Paper Madness

By Zoli Erdos on April 3, 2009

Tax Day is less than two weeks away. This year the IRS (The US Tax Agency) went out of their way to make sure I am doing things right: months ago they sent me a thick envelope with all the forms they thought I would need to use, including: form 1040-ES/V – payment vouchers for […]

Posted in General | Tagged e-government, environment, Government, irs, junk mail, paper waste, taxes, w2e, waste | 1 Response

Got an idea for Green Computing?

Got an idea for Green Computing?

By Krishnan Subramanian on October 11, 2008

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 […]

Posted in General | Tagged competition 2008, environment, green computing, grid computing

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