Posts tagged as:

azure

New version of Eye on Earth site – more data, less visible!

by Tom Raftery on December 1, 2009 · 5 comments

in pollution

Photo credit Tom Raftery
We last wrote about the Eye on Earth site in July 2008. If you can’t remember that far back, a quick recap – Microsoft and the European Environmental Agency (EEA) signed a non-exclusive five year deal with a goal to make environmental information more accessible to citizens in Europe.
EyeOnEarth, the first [...]

{ 5 comments }

How Green is Cloud Computing?

by Tom Raftery on December 17, 2008 · 8 comments

in IT

This is a graph of traffic to the website of the Australian Open tennis championship. As you can see, the traffic spikes in January every year and then all but disappears for the other 11 months of the year. It is also important to note that the height of the traffic spike is increasing year [...]

{ 8 comments }