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 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 ...

Digital transformation consultancy GFT Technologies has implemented a successful companywide green coding certification program for all employees -- from engineers to marketing managers. That's ...

A Salesforce executive is calling on coders to consider climate change when writing their software. "Even something as seemingly disconnected from the environment, such as building or hosting a ...

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 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 — ...

The latest trends in software development from the Computer Weekly Application Developer Network. It’s not easy being green, just ask Kermit. But thankfully, we’re a long way past the 1970s and the ...