Data Storage and the Environmental Benefits of the Cloud

Concern about energy consumption and the ever-increasing use of computing power are two major trends that have been bound to collide. In actual fact they have collided already.

Many IT vendors and IT departments are working with industry consortiums just as The Green Grid and Climate Savers Computing to develop and promote guidance and tools that support IT energy efficiency efforts.

Important role to play in improving energy efficiency

Cloud computing as well has an important role to play in improving energy efficiency. Migrating on-premise commodity services to a public cloud computing platform can free up valuable server and power capacity in an organization's data center and reduce the need to invest in IT infrastructure that will be likely be underutilized.