
Use open source platforms to find cloud computing’s energy and emissions footprint
Regular GreenMonk readers will be very aware that I am deeply skeptical about claims that Cloud Computing is Green (or even energy efficient). And that I talk about the significant carbon, water and biodiversity effects cloud computing can have. One of the biggest issues with any claims of Cloud Computing being energy efficient, or […]

VMWare Cloud Foundry – Quick Analysis and Press Pass
“We believe the current [platform clouds, such as Azure and App Engine] are incomplete,” [VMware senior director of cloud and application services Jerry] Chen says. “There is no one platform that is multi-cloud – private and public – and no one cloud is architected, out of the gate, to be extensible to many different frameworks […]

Eucalyptus 2.0
Recently, I had the chance to catch up with the Eucalyptus team, getting an overview of the new release and then a demo.