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Are Data Centers Harming the Environment? Since The New York Times’s explosive piece on data centers and their apparent harmful effects on the environment came out, members of the tech media and industry have voiced their concerns about what the article got wrong. |
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Enhancing Cloud Application Portability across Clouds The cloud application portability promise is seductive, and open specifications position customer choice as a risk-free proposition. Seamlessly migrating applications across cloud service providers and achieving desired portability will require preventing lock-in. |
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Announcing Cloud Application Management Platform Specs As many seek to rent application platforms instead of own them, there is a greater emphasis on application interoperability and portability. Open Cloud initiatives and Cloud specifications seek to increase platform interoperability, enhance application portability, and ease lock-in concerns. |
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