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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
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<head>
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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
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<title>Recycled Cloud - Story</title>
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<link rel="stylesheet" href="assets/css/main.css">
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</head>
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<body dir="ltr" lang="en-GB">
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<div class="container">
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<div class="header">
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<a href="index-en.html">
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<img src="assets/images/logo-recycled-cloud-800-trspt.png" alt="Recycled Cloud logo" id="logo" />
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</a>
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</div>
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<div class="content">
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<h2>Our story...</h2>
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<p>
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The <b>Recycled.Cloud</b> project is the result of two observations
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made by <b>e-Durable</b> in the last 5 years that it has just
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completed:
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<ul class="story-list">
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<li>
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The heavy trend in the ICT industry in recent years is to move
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clearly towards more and more cloud computing. Digitalisation
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goes hand in hand with an inevitable movement towards the cloud,
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supported by the largest players in the sector and because of the
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economic and technological advantages that the cloud brings to
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businesses.
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</li>
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<li>
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At the same time and for decades, medium or large players,
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companies, cloud providers or even SMEs have very often bought
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new servers when setting up their projects and - due to a lack
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of time or space - discarded existing servers, appearing
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incompatible with the new versions, no longer benefiting from
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manufacturer support or simply perceived as obsolete. This
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behaviour contributes to a huge production of IT waste that is
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certainly used but still works well. At least some of their
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components are perfectly functional. <br />
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</li>
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</ul>
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<p>
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The impact on the planet is therefore considerable when you
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consider that the manufacture of a server represents nearly 600kg
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of CO2 emitted per unit (source: ADEME, 2012) and that more than
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11 million units were delivered in 2018 (www.statista.com).
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</p>
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<p>
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Based on this observation, <b>e-Durable</b> has
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therefore launched a reflection on the subject and has come up
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with the concept of <b>Recycled.Cloud</b>. The
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principle of this cloud is to recover the servers that companies
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were throwing away until now and had to have removed at their
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expense, to rebuild servers that can be used with the components
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that are still valid and sufficiently powerful for the cloud. To
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offer with these recycled servers a credible and solid local
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alternative, based on this 100% local cloud, 100% recycled to
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host the "Cloud" services that companies in the region
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need today to support their digitalisation.
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</p>
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<p>
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To go further, <b>Recycled.Cloud</b> of course recycles
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again the servers of its own cloud that would fail by extracting
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their valid components, and this until the end of their useful
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life, extending them as long as possible, only to then bring them
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into the SWICO waste treatment chain.
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</p>
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<p>
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To keep on a consistent course, the <b>Recycled.Cloud</b> is also
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powered by open source technologies such as OpenNebula and OpenStack,
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OS Cloud (Cloud Operating System) which runs more than 70% of the
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world's public clouds. The design of <b>Recycled.Cloud</b> is also
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based on the principle of an architecture that is as distributed as
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possible and thought is being given to the design of mini-clouds that
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will allow the concept to be extended to a local community of
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distributed hosting and recycling companies.
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</p>
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<p>
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Thanks to a few generous donors of used servers, the founders and
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engineers of <b>e-Durable</b> have invested massively
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over 24 months to develop their know-how, to create and test the
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first prototypes and then to put into production the first
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<b>Recycled.Cloud</b> cores on the Lake Geneva arc and
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in the heart of the Swiss Alps.
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</p>
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<p>
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At this stage of the project, <b>e-Durable</b>'s vision is to
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continue to expand the <b>Recycled.Cloud</b>, with passionate
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and selected customers, to increase the ecological impact of recycling
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used servers to a larger scale and to offer all local actors Cloud
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hosting and services of the highest possible environmental value.
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</p>
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</div>
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<div class="footer footer-story">
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<p>
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<i>backed by</i> <a href="https://e-durable.ch" target="new"><b>e-Durable</b></a>
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<span class="fltrt">
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<a class="footer-home-link" href="index-en.html">Home ↵</a>
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<a href="story-fr.html">FR</a> | EN
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