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This is about as great a market validation as we could hope for - a sign of the times - of the rising tide behind the move to hold ourselves accountable...
The Carbon Footprint of the Internet
Check out this great infographic, thanks to CustomMade - quantifying the carbon costs of email, search and cloud storage - 2 percent of global CO2 emissions, comparable to air travel... Click to Enlarge Image Carbon Footprint of the Internet Infographic by CustomMade
Rescuing Brian – the Value of Cloud-Based Data Management
In my last post, I wrote about poor Brian. When we left him he was sitting in quiet desperation, driven to the edge of his sanity by the need to make sense of the data he collected in a pile of spreadsheets (in this case for the purpose of generating his company’s CDP report). In [...]
Scope 5 and Heartbleed
As you may have heard, an internet security vulnerability called "Heartbleed" was recently discovered in the OpenSSL library. (This library is used by many websites to secure data transfers with its users. The irony is not lost on us.) While we don't have any indication that any data or accounts were compromised, we take protecting our [...]
The Software Snowball Effect
At Scope 5, I’m the CEO, but I’m also in charge of product. I’ve been doing hardware or software development on and off for most of my life. Well – since I was seven or so. Over the time, I’ve come to some conclusions about these disciplines. There’s one phenomenon that I noticed years ago. [...]