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July 01, 2010

CloudSigma Partners with myclimate to Implement Carbon Offsetting in its Datacenter
By Rajani Baburajan
TMCnet Contributor

CloudSigma AG, a Swiss provider of Infrastructure-as-a-Service or “IaaS” platform offering high security, flexible cloud servers, announced it has now fully implemented carbon offsetting in relation to its global operations.


 
By offering the carbon neutral cloud service, which is included in their standard pricing, CloudSigma enables its customers to benefit from the low impact cloud computing backed up by carbon offsetting. CloudSigma's carbon neutral cloud services are the first of their kind in the industry, according to company officials.
Earlier in June CloudSigma announced CloudSigma IaaS platform for public beta. The platform allows instant access to highly flexible on-demand computing resources without the restrictions that many IaaS products currently impose, according to company officials.
 
The comprehensive evaluation was conducted by myclimate, the non-profit foundation based in Switzerland that specializes in carbon offsetting services. CloudSigma chose to work with myclimate to assess and then offset the total greenhouse gas emissions as a result of the company's operations.
 
Customers of CloudSigma will automatically benefit from this offsetting scheme which has been undertaken at a company wide level. The company is fully absorbing the cost of its environmental policy, maintaining the competitive price levels that users already benefit from, CloudSigma officials added.
 
The carbon offsetting is the third and final part of the company’s ground-up strategy to build a computing platform with a low environmental impact. CloudSigma selected datacenter and company location in Switzerland because Switzerland has one of the greenest electricity grids in the world. Electricity consumption is by far the biggest source of environmental impact for the company.
 
“By drawing electricity from largely low-impact generation sources we have avoided a significant amount of carbon dioxide emissions from day one,” Patrick Baillie, CEO CloudSigma said.
 
Power-efficient servers enable CloudSigma to achieve more computing throughput for every unit of electricity consumed compared with many other operators. According to the company, pricing of carbon dioxide is driving increased interest in improved computing resource efficiency for both environmental and political reasons. CloudSigma has made the choice to lead the market in embracing new ways of operating that can make a significant contribution to the changes that are needed.
 
CloudSigma chose myclimate because of their non-profit foundation status and because of their commitment to projects that have a meaningful impact on sustainable development and job creation as well as pure carbon dioxide emission reduction, the company said.

 

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