Cloud Industry Forum A UK-based company that is developing and supporting a “credible and certifiable Code of Practice” related to cloud adoption. The company member list include some big IaaS / PaaS names such as Dell, Microsoft, VMware, and Rackspace; but does include any big name SaaS companies. The list of white papers to-date is…
Category: CV Cloud
Sustainable cloud computing
Cloud Sustainability Certification
Sustainability categories: environmental, social, and financial Determine the baseline CV for various types of Cloud Producers and their Suppliers, create a CV Report template, build the repository of CV calculations, and the develop the mechanism for auditing the calculations and CV Reports.
Community Cloud Case Studies
Agriculture Large-scale agriculture pushes use of pesticides, insecticides, inorganic fertilizers, mono-cropping, and GMO seeds to enable one crop farmer to manage more acres; and encourages factory farms to confine the animals, to use antibiotics, to manipulate genes, to use species-inappropriate feed, and to accelerate maturation / production (milking three instead of two times a day,…
Crop Solutions
Bayer to buy biopesticide maker AgraQuest for $425 million. – 2012 July 6 Perhaps Bayer CropScience represents the supply-side of the middle ground for agriculture: green greens.
Data Center Localization
2012 Sep 25 InfoWorld article connecting big data centers to big pollution. Per the article most data centers waste 90% or more of the energy that they consume, and that their big generators are a big source of air pollution in locations such as Silicon Valley. I think that this bolsters the case for community…
Big Data Centers
EBay’s New Data Center Will Be Powered 100 Percent by Fuel Cells – Green Retail Decisions. – 2012 June 28 EBay is building a new data center in South Jordan, Utah that will be off-grid (with a backup connection to the local grid). The power source will be 30 natural-gas based fuel cells manufactured by…