Report on Cloud Computing's Environmental Benefits is Flawed says GreenMonk Analyst

This week the report Cloud Computing - The IT Solution for the 21st Century from the Carbon Disclosure Project has been making rounds in cloud computing circles. The report concludes that large businesses could use cloud computing to cut CO2 emissions by 85.7 million metric tons annually by 2020.

Raftery calls on cloud computing providers to publish energy consumption and emissons data, which would make it easier for companies to decide between cloud providers and give a better idea of what, if any, carbon emissions savings we can expect from cloud computing.

The city had a problem

But the city had a problem. Its servers were showing the signs of old age. It was time to turn to virtualization and new hardware to modernize a research infrastructure that sometimes did not work at all.

Advances in Intel Ethernet 10 Gigabit Server Adapters and VMware vSphere 4 allow migration away from legacy Gigabit Ethernet networking.

This white paper provides network architects and decision makers with guidance for moving from GbE to 10GbE networking in their virtualized data centers.