Friday, 22/11/2024 | 19:47 GMT+7
Businesses can save upto 30 per cent in power cost and
carbon emission by moving to the internet based-cloud technology, a Microsoft
study today said.
"Businesses that choose to run business applications in the cloud can help
reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions by a net 30 per cent or more
versus running those same applications on their own infrastructure,"
Microsoft India Director (Server Business) Pallavi Kathuria told PTI.
Cloud computing facilitates sharing of technological resources, software and
digital information. The emerging field functions on a pay-per-use model,
helping technology companies to bring down their operation costs.
These savings are realised because large datacenters benefit from economies of
scale and operational efficiencies, much more than what separate IT departments
can achieve, she added.
The global study titled, 'Cloud Computing and Sustainability: The Environmental
Benefits of Moving to the Cloud' has been commissioned by Microsoft and
conducted by Accenture and WSP Environment and Energy.
"The benefits can be even more significant for a small business moving to
the cloud, where the savings can be more than 90 per cent," the study
said.
Since many users 'share' an application running on a common cloud platform, the
server utilization goes up, resulting in lower energy cost and carbon footprint
per user.
"We are seeing a healthy and ever-increasing momentum around cloud adoption by India businesses. Over 4,000 applications have been built for Windows Azure, Microsoft's cloud platform, from India alone," she said adding that there was a huge scope for companies to save costs by embracing the cloud.
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