The Original Eco Friendly & Sustainable Living Portal (since 2009)
cloud computing, Tag
- Tech leaders can be the secret weapon for supercharging ESG goals Tue, 3 Aug 21, 2:08amOver the past few years, we have seen an uptick in organizations setting long-term sustainability goals. However, CEOs and CSOs typically forecast these often long-term and aspirational goals.
- Why Microsoft is dropping data centers on the ocean floor Thu, 4 Feb 16, 2:36amWith the demand for cloud storage growing ever-larger, companies that rely on vast data networks are starting to try out some unusual approaches to meet demand...
- Social media explosion powered by dirty energy, report warns Thu, 1 Jan 70, 10:00amGreenpeace singles out Amazon Web Services and Twitter for siting data centres in coal areas and failing to reveal energy useThe rise of social media is being powered by dirty forms of energy such as coal, a report from the...
- Ireland is cool for Google as its data servers like the weather Sun, 23 Dec 12, 11:08amComputer multinationals are finding that the chilly Irish climate helps with the cost of cooling their giant processor farmsJust like their neighbours across the sea, the Irish enjoy nothing more than whingeing about the...
- Cloud Computing: Friend or Foe of Kyotoism? Wed, 26 Sep 12, 12:42amAs I sit here typing away, Amazon.Com’s Cloud Player serves up 320 tunes I’ve purchased over the past year and a half. I can play them anywhere, any time, on any computer with Internet access. I don’t have...
- Beefing up security on skeptical blogs Sat, 18 Aug 12, 3:42amIt has been noted that in the past week we have seen two prominent skeptic websites attacked: Jo Nova and The GWPF, the latter of which has been overtaken, and a message from the attackers replaced the home page...
- Dirty data: where does Apple's energy come from? - video Wed, 18 Apr 12, 12:00amJames West from Climate Desk explains the environmental impact of Apple's energy consumption
- Apple defends green credentials of cloud computing services Wed, 18 Apr 12, 12:02amGreenpeace report named Apple among worst offenders for using highly polluting coal to power their data centresApple disclosed sensitive information about energy demand at the data centre housing its iCloud service for the...
- Google discloses carbon footprint for the first time Fri, 9 Sep 11, 2:03amAt around 1.5m tonnes of carbon, the energy usage of the online giant is on a par with the United NationsGoogle's carbon footprint is on a par with the United Nations, the internet giant revealed on Thursday as it published...
- Salesforce and Toyota Will Develop Toyota Friend, a Social Network for Toyota Customers Mon, 23 May 11, 11:02pmThe auto industry continues to strengthen its ties with Silicon Valley: Toyota and cloud computing company Salesforce have just teamed up to develop Toyota Friend, a private social network to connect Toyota customers and...
- Telematics: Microsoft and Toyota Announce Partnership on Electric Car Management Systems Thu, 7 Apr 11, 10:53pmToyota Motor Corporation and Microsoft have announced that they will partner to bring telematics (a.k.a. the integrated use of telecommunications and informatics) to the smart grid via Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing-powered...
- Revealed: where Google's data centres are around the world Sun, 31 May 09, 3:55pmAnalysis of data released by Google shows where its data centres - the places that keep it going - are