Data centers consume 3% of the planet's electricity, much of it to cool data centers. Fortified founder and CEO Ben DeBow says one problem seldom addressed is how much the code behind websites and ...

The latest trends in software development from the Computer Weekly Application Developer Network. This is a guest post in the ‘green coding’ story series written by Ryan Mangan, FBCS CITP. Mangan a ...

The amount of energy required to power a datacentre is no secret. In fact, it’s widely acknowledged that the total energy consumption for the 7.2 million datacentres worldwide amounts to around 1% of ...

Much has been written about the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from data centers. Current estimates place data centers at consuming nearly 3% of the world’s total electricity – on par with ...

The latest trends in software development from the Computer Weekly Application Developer Network. This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network by Vishal Ghariwala, senior director ...

Microsoft is backing a new non-profit, The Green Software Foundation, as part of an industry-wide effort to clean up code so that it's not wasting electricity on laptops, desktops or in the cloud. To ...

The burden of green doesn't just fall on hardware vendors; software developers need to crank out slimmer, more eco-friendly code We know that some computer hardware — PCs and servers, for example — ...