How Do Cloud Solutions Cut Energy Costs?
By now I’m sure you have heard or read that the cloud makes your business more agile, available and reduces cost. What many people forget about is how the cloud can also help them cut their energy costs. Cloud solutions can cut energy costs in 4 ways but the level of reduction really depends on the type of cloud and/or the applications running in the cloud.
- The Virtualization technology that runs the cloud and is 60% more energy efficient than a traditional server.
- Virtualized servers can be up to 80% utilized, versus a traditional server which is at best 25%-30% utilized. Meaning you will need fewer servers for your business. Less servers = Less Energy Consumption!
- Cutting energy cost can further be reduced by 30%-40% (your monthly electric bill) with Cloud solutions when you are considering a public, hybrid, hosted cloud solution. With these cloud solutions, businesses can partially or completely eliminate onsite servers, thereby reducing the energy cost associated with maintaining them.
- Cloud solutions utilizing a virtualized cloud environment, are able to use “thin client” desktop computers for employees. Thin Clients are 70% more energy efficient that a traditional desktop computers and used only to access the files and applications in The Cloud,
Sun Digital uses a cloud cost savings calculator that accurately calculates, all of the costs as well as savings for hosted and private cloud solutions that helps, you the business owner, make the best possible cloud solution decision.
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