Back in the day, cloud conversion was when you stared at the sky and “converted” from cumulus, stratus, cirrus and nimbus to bunnies, dolphins, unicorns and piggies. 

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There are many new technologies that are “cool.” However, we can now say that they are able to heat things up - literally. A paper, presented at Usenix Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing by two researchers at the University of Virginia and four at Microsoft Research, explores the possibilities of using data centers as a source of heating for homes and buildings. The authors call it a “data furnace.”

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A company adopting cloud computing may reduce their energy consumption, carbon emissions and capital spending on IT resources, says a study by The Carbon Disclosure Project.

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