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How Green Was My Cloud?

Avatar for Mark O'Neill Mark O'Neill
September 27, 2011
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How Green Was My Cloud?

Presentation I gave to close the Efficient ICT Conference

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Mark O'Neill

September 27, 2011

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Transcript

  1. How Green Was My Cloud? Mark O’Neill Head of Innovation

    and Delivery Government Digital Service

  2. Numbers 1.5%

  3. Numbers 1.5% Total power consumption of datacentres as percentage of

    total global power

  4. Numbers 50%

  5. Numbers 50% Percentage split in datacentre power consumption between buildings

    and servers

  6. Numbers 80

  7. Numbers 80 Ratio of cloud to noncloud email hosting

  8. Numbers 100

  9. Numbers 100 Percentage of renewable power used by some cloud

    service providers

  10. Service Delivery 200 watts vs 2 watts

  11. Service Delivery Ubiquity

  12. Challenge ►Make the carbon case ►Calculate your total footprint ►Embed

    carbon targets in contracts ►Cloud success factors:  Cost  Agility  Carbon