Skip to content
Define The Cloud

The Intersection of Technology and Reality

Define The Cloud

The Intersection of Technology and Reality

Tag: cooling

Why Cloud is as ‘Green’ As It Gets

Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick), July 9, 2010July 9, 2010

I stumbled across a document from Greenpeace citing cloud for additional power draws and the need for more renewable energy (http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/publications/reports/make-it-green-cloud-computing/.)  This is one of a series I’ve been noticing from the organization bastardizing IT for its effect on the environment and chastising companies for new data centers.  These articles…

Technical Drivers for Cloud Computing

Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick), March 23, 2010May 26, 2010

In a previous post I’ve described the business drivers for Cloud Computing infrastructures (http://www.definethecloud.net/?p=27.)  Basically the idea of transforming data center from a cost center into a profit center.  In this post I’ll look at the underlying technical challenges that cloud looks to address in order to reduce data center…

Creative Commons License
This work by Joe Onisick and Define the Cloud, LLC is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License

Disclaimer

All brand and company names are used for identification purposes only. These pages are not sponsored or sanctioned by any of the companies mentioned; they are the sole work and property of the authors. While the author(s) may have professional connections to some of the companies mentioned, all opinions are that of the individuals and may differ from official positions of those companies. This is a personal blog of the author, and does not necessarily represent the opinions and positions of his employer or their partners.
©2025 Define The Cloud | WordPress Theme by SuperbThemes