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With great power comes great responsibility – or, Cloud companies need to get on-board

With great power comes great responsibility – or, Cloud companies need to get on-board

By Tom Raftery on March 4, 2012

With great power comes great responsibility This great quote from the movie Spider-Man, is just as true for technology, as it is for superheroes. Technology has made possible tremendous changes in our quality of life in the last couple of decades. Everything from surgery to transportation, education to construction, space exploration and most other fields […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged climate change, Cloud, data centres, environment, environmental impact of ICT, green, ict footprint, Manufacturing, methodology, standardisation

Is Cloud Computing Green?

Is Cloud Computing Green?

By Tom Raftery on January 10, 2012

I gave the keynote address at the Digital Trends 2011 event organised by HePIS and CEPIS in Athens recently. My talk was on Cloud Computing’s Green Potential and in my presentation, I claimed that Cloud Computing is NOT Green. I started the talk by explaining what Cloud Computing is and the many advantages it can […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged cepis, Cloud, Cloud Computing, green, hepis, iaas, PaaS, SaaS | 2 Responses

HP’s shrinking wallflower attitude may not be Sustainable!

HP’s shrinking wallflower attitude may not be Sustainable!

By Tom Raftery on March 22, 2011

So I wrote a post the other day entitled Have HP’s senior executives lost interest in Sustainability? after attending a HP event in San Francisco. It was a little unfair because I concentrated on the lack of mentions of Sustainability by senior management on the first day of the event while leaving out the fact […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged cense, co2 emissions, green, Hewlett-Packard, hp, hpsummit, oil and gas, shell, Sustainability

Branding innovation at a conference

Branding innovation at a conference

By Thomas Otter on October 1, 2010

I have been to many, many software conferences, but I’m especially fond of the HR tech conference in Chicago. It has a good mix of vendors and practitioners, and is well worth a visit. Over the years at conferences around the world, I’ve strolled the vendor booths, and seen all sorts. Some, just a desk […]

Posted in Business | Tagged conferences, green, HR Technology, HR technology related, hrtech; events; conference; HR; HCM, Human resources, Sonar6 | 1 Response

Just how green is cloud computing?

Just how green is cloud computing?

By Tom Raftery on April 27, 2010

Cloud computing may not be as Green as you think. I mentioned previously that I gave a keynote presentation at the Green IT Summit in Dublin last week. In the question and answers session after the talk, Sean Baker asked about cloud computing and whether I thought companies using cloud computing weren’t simply outsourcing their […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Amazon, app engine, Azure, canonical, Cloud Computing, EC2, elastic cloud compute, Energy, energy efficiency, google, green, ibm, microsoft, salesforce, sean baker, Simon Wardley, Sustainability | 1 Response

My “Green IT – driving efficiency, sustainability and enabling efficient working practices” presentation

My “Green IT – driving efficiency, sustainability and enabling efficient working practices” presentation

By Tom Raftery on April 23, 2010

Green IT – driving efficiency, sustainability and enabling efficient working practices Conference organising company iQuest contacted me last year to ask me to deliver a keynote presentation at their Green IT Summit. The event took place in Dublin yesterday and my keynote talk entitled “Green IT – driving efficiency, sustainability and enabling efficient working practices” […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged efficiency, efficient work practices, energy star, Granular Resource Economics, green, green it, green it summit, green procurement, Green technologies, pc power management, smart grids, Sustainability, telepresence, teleworking, virtualisation, virtualization

How to Reduce Energy Consumption in Retail: Change The Font On Your Cash Register

How to Reduce Energy Consumption in Retail: Change The Font On Your Cash Register

By Tom Raftery on November 27, 2009

Yesterday I got an update from an ERP company called Epicor that primarily serves the mid-market. While I am not an ERP specialist its always interesting, as a middleware guy, to get a view from the app side. Greenmonk for obvious reasons also takes a keener view than the RedMonk mothership in applications in areas […]

Posted in Business | Tagged green, ibm, NCR, POS, Retail, Sustainability | 2 Responses

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