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News, insights, and technical deep-dives on green software from the GSF community.
Observability Across Complex Environments – Meet Bertrand Martin, CEO of Sentry Software
Bertrand Martin is the CEO and President of Sentry Software and one of the company’s co-founders. He is equally a developer and a system administrator by trade. His career has been dedicated to building monitoring and observability tools, initially as a user of such solutions and later as a developer.
Uniting for the Green Software Revolution
On June 5 for World Environment Day, GSF hosted a live virtual event for tech enthusiasts interested to know how software can help save the planet. Four experts debated the challenges and opportunities in the field of green software and revealed some of the findings of the State of Green Software Report.
How to Accurately Measure the Energy Consumption of Application Software
According to the World Economic Forum, 70% of the new value created in the economy over the next decade is expected to be based on digitally enabled business platforms. This trend will continue to drive an exponential increase in data creation and consumption along with the technology sector’s global carbon footprint.
Green Software Foundation Releases First-Ever State of Green Software Report
May 31, 2023/– The Green Software Foundation (GSF) has announced the release of the 2023 State of Green Softwarehttp://stateof.greensoftware.foundation (SOGS) report - the first-ever analysis of green software, globally and across industries.
How Intesa and NTT Data Measure Software Carbon Footprint and Carbon Intensity
Intesa Sanpaolo (ISP), as a responsible business entity, acknowledges the importance of adopting sustainable practices to minimize its environmental impact. One of the key challenges that the bank faces in this regard is to track and measure energy consumption and carbon emissions associated with software and hardware usage. To address this challenge, Intesa Sanpaolo requires a monitoring tool that can provide accurate data on its environmental impact and help identify opportunities for improvement.
Measuring the Energy Consumption of an on premise ecommerce application
While there is a desire by all enterprises to migrate to the cloud, there will be a considerable portfolio of on-premise solutions that we need to live with for the next few years. The carbon footprint of these applications must be measured and optimized, especially as they continue to scale.
Detecting Green Impact in Source Code - Meet Greg Rivera, VP of Product at CAST
CAST is a software vendor in the software intelligence category that provides products that ‘understand’ multi-technology software systems to automatically derive insights about their inner workings, enabling digital leaders to optimize for resiliency, performance, cost, modernization, open source risks, and more.
Cloud Computing: The Business Case for 100% Carbon Free Energy
The cloud computing industry is growing at an unprecedented pace. With businesses and consumers relying on cloud services for everything from data storage to application hosting, the demand for cloud computing solutions is on an upward trajectory. However, with this growth, there is a greater risk of increased carbon emissions from cloud computing.
The Open Source Approach is Revolutionizing the Business World - Meet Christopher Howard, Lead Open Source Program Manager at EPAM Systems, Inc.
Since 1993, EPAM Systems, Inc. (EPAM) has leveraged its advanced software engineering heritage to become the foremost global digital transformation services provider – leading the industry in digital and physical product development and digital platform engineering services.
ChatGPT & Sustainability - Green Software Foundation “Expert Perspectives”
Artificial intelligence systems use vast amounts of energy. ChatGPT is arguably the most well-known AI application in today's IT landscape. How do experts see the role of ChatGPT and other Large Language Models (LLM) in light of the climate crisis? What are the benefits of AI, and how can they outweigh the negative aspects of increased energy consumption and, more specifically, carbon emissions attributed to developing, testing, and operating such applications?
London Meetup Recap: Building a Green Tech Culture
London Meetup Recap: Building a Green Tech Culture
Join us in celebrating the formation of the GSF Oversight Committee!
We're proud to introduce the Oversight Committee (OC). The OC will guide the foundation’s technical direction and ensure the foundation meets best practices across all projects.