Cloud Computing as the emissions reduction strategy
By Tarry Singh at 17 July, 2009, 2:07 am
Well that is what our talk on Smart Metering in the Clouds is all about. We will be writing our book on that and will help start-ups; established businesses wanting to build their own clouds or wanting to build clouds on an external cloud focus; helping IT professionals learn to use different toolkits to quickly fire up their own internal cloud [and cheap!], and this will all revolve around the consumption layer that will smartly meter the resource usage and effectively build the consumer only what they need.
A study conducted by Greenspace, an Illinois-based vendor of green building supplies, found that NetSuite customers who signed up for the company’s Enterprise Resource Planning and Customer Relationship Management software services saved a combined $61 million in energy bills per year. The energy savings, equaling almost 595 million kilowatt-hours, led to avoided greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to 423,000 metric tons of CO2.
The findings add further support to the notion that cloud computing, the growing practice of outsourcing applications, storage and other computing functions to specialized companies, is a promising green business practice.
Cloud computing providers are able to focus their efforts on maximizing the performance and efficiency of their computing operations, and as a result are often able to perform at much higher levels of utilization than individual companies, especially smaller firms with fewer IT resources.
Earlier this week, Microsoft announced that its 2010 version of its Office software suite would be available in an online version for free, similar to Google’s Google Docs service. These two companies highlight how efficient cloud computing services can be, with both Microsoft and Google having achieved industry-leading energy efficiency levels for their data centers.
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Is the cost saving quoted excluding the costs incurred by supplier (NetSuite) of the hosted software service or have the customers simply outsourced energy consumption and carbon emissions? It would be interesting to see how this was determined from at the client site as well as at the hosting (cloud) site (locations)?
William
I’m interested to know more about this. I’m not sure I fully understand ‘Cloud Computing.’ It is obviousy making a big difference in emissions though, so I hope they keep up the good work.