Environmental Sustainability Through Cloud Computing
One of the areas that CloudStrategies is focusing attention is in the area of environmental sustainability through the smart application of technology.
It is common knowledge that corporate data centers can cause challenges for businesses wishing to improve their corporate sustainability profile. Corporate data centers, especially older ones, are often inefficient in their power consumption because of the heavy draw on power for system processing as well as server heat generation and the requirements for significant cooling system capacity. On top of raw power consumption, corporate data centers often find that their processing capacity is inefficiently utilized and often exceeds their actual needs.
Cloud Computing not only reduces costs and headaches, while reducing risk for businesses, it also has significant benefits to bring to businesses in the area of Environmental Sustainability. Cloud Computing offers sustainability benefits for businesses by:
Reducing the power consumption of corporate datacenters as servers and applications are shifted to more efficient Cloud Providers and modern datacenters.
Pooling computing capacity and driving more efficient system utilization across shared system usage.
Increasing access to systems and collaboration tools - reducing the requirements for corporate travel.
The solutions that CloudStrategies delivers from Microsoft Online Services and other leading cloud computing providers all provide significant sustainability benefits to business.
CloudStrategies can work with your business to understand your sustainability initiatives and help you to leverage Cloud Computing solutions to help meet your sustainability goals.
Below, you will find some videos from Microsoft that present their sustainability solutions and initiatives.
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