Suited for home and business users,
Apple’s iCloud uses renewable
energy across its entire business,
specifically the iCloud datacentres, as well as greener materials
in its manufacturing and building processes. In 2015, 93 per
cent of the company’s energy use came from renewable sources,
and 100 per cent of the datacentre’s energy use is clean.
APPLE ICLOUDAs well as adhering to the highest
possible security standards, Swiss
cloud service provider Cloudsigma is
also carbon-neutral across all its datacentres; it was one of the
first to achieve carbon-neutral status. The Switzerland based
datacentre is one of the most power efficient in Europe too.
CLOUDSIGMADediserve is one of the biggest cloud
service providers in the world, operating
fifteen datacentres from around the
world. This Irish company has taken great steps in reducing its
environmental impact over the years, ensuring that its power
consumption is considerably less than a conventional in-house
server setup.
DEDISERVEAs well as offering excellent cloud
services, Rackspace also operates
its datacentres with 100 per cent
renewable sources. The company is also continually looking to
reducing its environmental impact further through the use of
greener materials. RACKSPACEIBM’s SmartCloud
datacentres are exceptionally
environmentally friendly.
Just a few years ago, twenty seven of the company’s
datacentres were awarded ‘Participants in Datacentre
Efficiency’ by the European Commission. So as well as offering
enterprise-level cloud services, the company is also actively
lowering its carbon footprint. IBM SMARTCLOUDAkamai’s delivery servers, thousands spread
across 126 countries, is committed to
lowering its environmental impact by using
renewable fuels. The company has plans to reduce as much of
its energy impact by 2020 and lower its carbon emissions to
less than 2015 levels. AKAMAIGreen Cloud Providers