In most cases, cloud computing is greener than traditional data centers. Just how green depends on the details of each individual deployment. For businesses looking to score public relations and ESG ...

In a recent study (PDF) sponsored by SaaS provider NetSuite, it was clear that cloud computing is the tech industry’s equivalent of a Toyota Prius hybrid running on biodiesel and that traditional ...

According to a 2007 Gartner study, the IT industry produces as much greenhouse gas as the entire aviation industry. That’s one of the reasons Eiki Hrafnsson and Tryggvi Lárusson created GreenQloud, ...

Businesses are facing pressure from stakeholders to reduce their impact on the environment. So startups are popping up to help companies meet sustainability goals. Here are nine tech startups that ...

Companies are increasingly incorporating technology into their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals. A cloud operating model can play an important role in a company's sustainability ...

At the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco twenty-one companies announced the launch of the Step Up Declaration. This is an alliance dedicated to harnessing the power of emerging ...

Amazon.com’s cloud-computing unit says that one day it will rely solely on renewable power. But Greenpeace says a ramp-up in data-center construction in Virginia, where electricity comes mostly from ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Accenture (NYSE: ACN) today launched Green Cloud Advisor, a new capability for the Accenture myNav platform that enables enterprises to operate more sustainable and ...

In another bid to make cloud computing eco-friendlier, Google has created a new tool to push customers who are picking their next cloud region towards choosing infrastructure that is more sustainable.

The ever-increasing demand is handled through large-scale datacenters, which consolidate hundreds and thousands of servers with other infrastructure such as cooling, storage and network systems. Cloud ...

Cloud computing is a highly scalable and cost-effective infrastructure for running HPC, enterprise and Web applications. However, the growing demand of cloud infrastructure has drastically increased ...