Most businesses owners have heard or read that the cloud makes your business more agile, available and reduces cost. However, our clients frequently ask, 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.
First, the technology that runs the cloud is called Virtualization, which is 60% more energy efficient than traditional servers, in just the amount of electricity it takes to run and cool a virtualized server. Second, 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.
The third way cloud solutions can cut energy costs becomes more exponential when you are considering a public, hybrid, hosted cloud solution. In these cloud solutions, businesses have the ability to partially or completely eliminate onsite servers and the energy cost associated with maintaining them. Many times this is a hidden benefit that is not included in the original cost savings calculations. Many of our hosted cloud clients have seen a 30%-40% reduction in their electric bill when they moved to a Sun Digital Hosted Cloud Solution.
The fourth way businesses can reduce their energy cost with cloud solutions is in a virtualized cloud environment, business are able to use “thin client” desktop computers for employees. Business can use Thin Clients, because they do not need to locally store files and run applications, since those items are now located in the cloud. With desktop virtualization, the Thin Client desktop now only needs to access the internet. The thin client is 70% more energy efficient than a traditional desktop computer.
Sun Digital can help you understand which Cloud Solution is right for your business and all of the energy cost saving associated with that solution. We use a cloud cost savings calculator that accurately calculates, all of the costs as well as savings for hosted and private cloud solutions that help business make the best possible cloud solution decision.
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