“Calculating the subscription costs of cloud computing is easy. But how can IT directors compare this to the cost of existing operations? They must analyse costs across the IT estate, including support staff, electricity and supporting infrastructure to make a financial case for cloud computing.” – Janet Lin, Verdantix Senior Manager in the New York office
Last week’s Verdantix and AT&T report on the energy and carbon emission savings to come from cloud computing is the latest in a long line of studies stating the obvious: Shifting …

Forrester Research is the latest organization to explore the link between cloud computing and green IT.
Like others, it believes that the cloud approach can be inherently more energy-efficient than other IT infrastructure approaches. But it says that infrastructure and facilities professionals should take a stronger stand on the choices they make for private cloud infrastructure strategies, or cloud infrastructure that will serve a limited set of hand-chosen constituents versus the public at large. ZDNET