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Apple, cloud computing, and enterprise supply chain management

Apple, cloud computing, and enterprise supply chain management

By Tom Raftery on February 19, 2015

Apple’s recent announcements around renewables and supply chain transparency, put the major cloud providers to shame. Apple had a couple of interesting announcements last week. The first was that they were investing $848m in a 130MW solar farm being built by First Solar in California. With this investment, Apple enters into a 25 year power […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Cloud, green cloud, renewables, supply chain, supply chain transparency, supplychain, Sustainability

Oh Dear, the Green Pundits Don’t Understand the Cloud or Multitenancy

Oh Dear, the Green Pundits Don’t Understand the Cloud or Multitenancy

By Bob Warfield on January 16, 2015

Recently I was drawn into a discussion of how Green the Cloud is where I responded as follows: SaaS is going to come out ahead of any reasonably calculation of carbon emissions versus on-prem. Multi-tenancy is just a lot more efficient. Look at the data centers of companies like Google, Amazon, and Facebook. Most corporates wish they […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Cloud, co2, data center, enterprise software, green cloud, multitenancy, pue, SaaS, strategy

SAP to power its cloud computing infrastructure from 100% renewable energy

SAP to power its cloud computing infrastructure from 100% renewable energy

By Tom Raftery on March 26, 2014

Cloud computing is often incorrectly touted as being a green, more environmentally-friendly, computing option. This confusion occurs because people forget that while cloud computing may be more energy efficient (may be), the environmental friendliness is determined by how much carbon is produced in the generation of that energy. If a data centre is primarily powered […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Amazon, Azure, Cloud, Cloud Computing, green cloud, ibm, microsoft, Microsoft Azure, renewables, sap

Don’t forget – where your cloud apps are hosted helps determine their carbon footprint

Don’t forget – where your cloud apps are hosted helps determine their carbon footprint

By Tom Raftery on December 21, 2011

Back in July of this year (2011), the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), in conjunction with Verdantix, released a report titled Cloud Computing – The IT Solution for the 21st Century [PDF warning] which erroneously claims Cloud Computing is Green. Shortly after it was released, I wrote a long post outlining exactly where the report was […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged AT&T, Carbon Disclosure Project, carbon intensity, cdp, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Cloud Solutions division, co2 emissions, Electricity generation, environmental benefits, green cloud, IT estate, verdantix

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