In part two of our “Making sense of sustainability” blog series, we discussed how to unlock data-driven sustainability. This blog explores how leveraging the benefits of the Cloud can help organisations work towards sustainability goals.
Headline takeaways:
- The “Digital Revolution” has rewritten the IT landscape via Web 1.0 and, more significantly, Web 2.0, leading to “data becoming the new oil of the digital economy”.
- Hyperscale cloud data centres are significantly more energy efficient than conventional server rooms, on-premise data centres, and co-location centres. The “Pay As You Go” consumption model incentivises organisations to right size workloads and drive further efficiencies via autoscaling and powering off systems when not in use.
- The move to exit conventional server rooms and data centres by migrating workloads to the Cloud is having a positive effect on the environment and the organisations bottom line.
- Modernising applications from Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) to Platform (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings further increases these positive effects. Advancements in PaaS serverless offerings help organisations manage IP v4 addresses, which for large multinationals can be a scarce commodity; in addition to driving down costs and, by extension, consumption and carbon footprint.
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