Cloud Computing: Information technology’s answer to sustainability?

Grazed from EcoSeed.org. Author: JJ Moore.

Cloud computing has revolutionized the IT industry for the past decade and is still developing creative ways to solve current problems. Innovations such as cloud storage and non-native applications are unimaginable 10 years ago but a reality nowadays. Companies and research institutes are slowly moving to the cloud to address their computing needs. Services and applications are also common in the cloud right now. So why is the cloud attractive to the public and private sectors?

Time and Money

The cloud takes advantage of a centralized system and updates information real-time. Businesses with time sensitive data are quick to grab this opportunity and harness the efficiency of the cloud. For example, medical researches that needed months of in-house number crunching moved to distributed systems, significantly reducing computing time and expenses…

Email is no longer the only way to send information across teams in and out of the company. Systems such as Google Drive, Zoho and Trello are reducing costs of running native applications and updates information as they change. Productivity increases as information channels are consistent and data delivery is lightning speed…

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