Our one big hope for the future Military Technology
Today the Pentagon said that they needed to move away from Fossil Fuels, and much like the rocketry that allowed us to go to the moon, much like the internet that is disrupting hundreds of business models, the military going green might be the way to p…
Cloud Computing's Green Mantra And How Finland Is Doing It Right
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 […]
Books On Clouds: A Game Changer?
I am a big sucker for ebooks for many reasons. First, there is a noble reason of not cutting the trees and helping the planet. There are other practical and lesser mortal reasons like saving space by not having huge bookshelves occupying most of the office space, cost (the consumers are supposed to have huge […]
SaaS v. On-premises Software: Which One is More Green?
(The following is a guest post by Chris Thorman @ SoftwareAdvice.com) In case you haven’t heard (or aren’t obsessively following IT trends like we are), the great trend in software is the evolution from traditional “on-premises” software (e.g. client/server software installed at the office) to Software as a Service (SaaS) (i.e. web-based applications that are […]
