In most cases, cloud computing is greener than traditional data centers. Just how green depends on the details of each individual deployment. For businesses looking to score public relations and ESG ...

Cloud computing energy consumption is a source of much debate. On one side, some see a massive new form of industrialization gobbling up resources; with large cloud and social networking sites ...

A Microsoft-sponsored study looks at how green cloud computing is by comparing energy and emissions of on-site versus cloud versions of business applications. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer ...

Iceland is in a bit of trouble these days, its economy collapsed last year when its three largest banks failed. And so now it is being bailed out by the International Monetary Fund and trying to get ...

Green ICT is a global imperative that must be pursued with urgency. Everyone involved in information and telecommunications technology – including cloud computing – must take it into account in their ...

Cloud computing is significantly greener than its traditional IT operations alternatives, right? Actually, it may not quite be that simple. James Urquhart is a field technologist with almost 20 years ...

Many have villainized the rise of cloud computing as a major carbon emitter, but the truth should not surprise most cloud pros A new study found that the computing output of data centers jumped six ...

Facebook recently tweeted a statistic that gives the public a sense of how much new data enters cyberspace on a regular basis. Over New Year's weekend, Facebook users uploaded a record 750 million ...

General Manager, Cloud Services for NJVC. In my talk, I presented Vivek Kundra's arguments which used the government's woeful server efficiency rates and exploding data center count to highlight how ...

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