14 Cloud Services Players Scrutinized For Green Credentials

zdnet.com (Sep 13 2011) Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Cloud Computing

1. Only four companies, Akamai, Apple, eBay and Google, disclose global emissions information for the data centers driving their SaaS applications, cloud infrastructure and internet services. Akamai, Apple, eBay and Google stand alone among Internet services and social networking companies in their transparency about the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions caused by their worldwide data centers, according to a new report published on the topic by independent market research firm Verdantix. The report, Carbon Strategy Benchmark: Internet Sector, scrutinizes 14 of the largest players in cloud services including three Chinese companies (Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent) plus Akamai, Amazon, Apple, eBay, Expedia, Facebook, Google, Netflix, Priceline, Salesforce and Yahoo! The Verdantix report is similar to one that it published earlier this year looking at the internal operational and environmental sustainability practices maintained by 14 top services firms that offer corporate sustainability and green IT services externally to other companies. (Read Full Article)

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