Accenture this week released Green Cloud Advisor, an extension to its myNav tool that recommends cloud deployment approaches for customers.
Meanwhile, ThoughtWorks, a software consulting firm based in Chicago, added Microsoft Azure support for its Cloud Carbon Footprint tool, an open source offering that’s part of the company’s Green Cloud Optimization service.
“Professional services firms are putting together a portfolio of services,” said Abhijit Sunil, an analyst who focuses on sustainability for market research firm Forrester.
The consultants’ moves are in step with rising demand for sustainable technologies from enterprises, which increasingly view IT as a key source of carbon emissions.
“Green cloud optimization is still an emerging topic for many enterprises,” said Dan Lewis-Toakley, green cloud lead for ThoughtWorks North America.
ThoughtWorks has experienced the most traction among digital natives such as startup and scale-up companies, particularly if sustainability is central to their brands, Lewis-Toakley said.
That said, companies with ballooning data center costs, and not as far on their transformational journeys, might also express interest in green cloud benefits.
But adding sustainability and the sovereign cloud, which takes cross-border data migration into consideration, provides a wide-angle view of cloud adoption.