Shared resources always seem to bring some benefits when it comes to going green or helping the environment. Car pooling saves on gas and produces less pollution, mass transit systems claim to do the same. So it only makes sense that sharing computing resources and computer pooling would do the same and in fact it does.  The move towards Cloud Computing  will end up not only helping companies save money on their balance sheets but will also allow It Departments to help save the environment.

Right now servers everywhere are whirling away processing orders for online Christmas and Holiday shopping.  Ecommerce companies have been preparing for this all year, making sure their servers can handle peak loads and give shoppers the online experience they expect. So what happens after the holidays have passed and the server loads slow down? Most companies will still be running and maintaining all this equipment until next Holiday season.  It’s not uncommon for most companies to be running their servers at 20% capacity most of the year and while there is a lot of capital and resources (energy included) being used they are providing no economic or environmental benefit at all.

Cloud Computing  solves a huge problem in capital inefficiency and helps companies save energy and the environment, by allowing companies to easily scale up IT resources when demand is high and scale down when activity slows.

Tax season will be apon us soon and in Data Centers all around the world severs that were once confirming shipping address and sending holiday shopping orders will be helping tax preparers get the information they need to help their customers. All the while there are small Green Tech companies that are using shared Cloud resources, allowing them to innovate and do research that would have cost ten times what it does now.

Rich Alessandro