Greenpeace recently released its “make IT green” report which predicts that cloud computing will increase the energy problems. It alleges that Cloud computing will consume nearly 2 trillion kilowatt hours of electricity a year by 2020.

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Greenpeace names Amazon, Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, Intel, and others in its report saying:
With the growth of the cloud, however, comes an increasing demand for energy. For all of this content to be delivered to us in real time, virtual mountains of video, pictures and other data must be stored somewhere and be available …

Good case study of Google Apps use in educational institutes.

Emerging Indian markets have a lot of scope for new technologies. However, the small scale shops and other markets don’t have enough resources to buy and use the softwares available.

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Xerox has set-up an “Innovation Hub” in Chennai and is working to provide the software to these businesses as a low-cost document service through a cloud computing mode.
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