Adrian Cockcroft

Jan 10, 2025 | thenewstack.io | Adrian Cockcroft

In December 2024 Amazon released Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) data for many of their AWS cloud regions, and along with existing data from Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, there is finally enough data to make some comparisons for regions spread around the world and see what changed from 2022 to 2023. PUE is a measure of how efficiently a data center uses energy.

Jul 17, 2024 | thenewstack.io | Adrian Cockcroft |Jonathan Siddharth |Brian Wald |David Cassel

The leading cloud providers and the mammoth global companies that run them are adopting environmentally sustainable practices, but it is a complicated work in progress. As Amazon, Google and Microsoft continue to grow, they’re all grappling with the challenges of reducing their carbon emissions in the face of increased resource usage of AI, while making the right investments in renewable energy infrastructure around th​​e world.

Mar 19, 2024 | thenewstack.io | Tomasz Grabiec |Meredith Shubel |Adrian Cockcroft |Agam Shah

KubeCon 2024 features new technologies and services from the open source and cloud native communities. This year, one company you’ll hear a lot from is OVHcloud, a French cloud provider that’s been innovating on data center design and management since 1999.

Aug 23, 2023 | infoq.com | Adrian Cockcroft

InfoQ Homepage Presentations Cloud Provider Sustainability, Current Status and Future Directions Adrian Cockcroft explains what is available now in terms of green energy, public roadmap statements and commitments that have been made by AWS, Azure and GCP. Adrian Cockcroft has had a long career working at the leading edge of technology.

Jul 28, 2023 | infoq.com | Adrian Cockcroft

Transcript Cockcroft: I'm Adrian Cockcroft. I'm going to talk to you about microservices retrospective: what we learned and what we didn't learn from Netflix. I was at Netflix from 2007 to the end of 2013. We're going to look a bit at that, and some of the early slide decks that I ran through at the time. It's a retrospective. I don't really know that much about retrospectives, but a good friend of mine does.