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Crunching the numbers in search of a greener cloud

Crunching the numbers in search of a greener cloud

By Paul Miller on July 17, 2012

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 […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged aws, big data, bruce durling, carbon footprint, cloud computing, cloudcamp, data center, Energy Information Administration, follow the moon, follow the sun, francine bennett, green computing, green energy, Greenpeace, greenqloud, hadoop, iaas, International Energy Agency, mastodon c, mastodonc | 1 Response

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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

Barack Obama and Cloud Computing

Barack Obama and Cloud Computing

By Krishnan Subramanian on November 5, 2008

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 […]

Posted in Analysis | Tagged barack obama, broadband, cloud computing, green energy, net neutrality, saas | 9 Responses

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