Cloud Computing Stats - The Green Solution

CLOUD COMPUTING

STATSTHE GREEN SOLUTION

Here are some statistics about how the cloud is positively impacting our environment.

The cloud just may be that greener alternative we’ve all been searching for. Cloud computing has not only flourished within the last few years, but it also introduced numerous benefits to businesses AND the environment, simultaneously.

65%say cloud

adoption has helped reduce

waste and lower energy consumption.

87%Moving to the cloud can save up to

of IT energy.

30%For large deployments, cloud can reduce energy use and

carbon emissions by more than

90percent

For small deployments, energy use and emissions can be

reduced by more than

40-70%A typical application in the cloud may attain

utilization, dramatically increasing the number

of users served per machine.

40%

Improved data center design could reduce power consumption over traditional enterprise data centers by

30000metric tons

A large enterprise that moves its HR apps to the public cloud can,

in five years, cut CO2 emissions by as much as

87%

If all American businesses moved their email programs, spreadsheet applications, customer management software and more to centralized off-site serveres, companies

would shrink their energy footprints by