Going Green With Big Data And The Cloud
November 26, 2015
Grazed from CloudTweaks. Author: Jennifer Klostermann.
Amazon has just launched its fourth renewable energy program, increasing its data centers’ use of green power thanks to a new wind farm to be built in rural Paulding County, Ohio. Starting in May 2017, this green plant will generate 320,000-megawatt hours of electricity yearly, specifically to provide power to Amazon’s cloud data centers. But investment in green technology isn’t the only way IT giants are promoting a greener world – the Cloud and Big Data are making their own meaningful impact.
Cloud as a Green Solution
1) Pay for Use: Cloud infrastructure is typically pay-as-you-go, encouraging users to consume only what they need and turn off resources not in operation. This encourages both energy and resource efficiency as users only consume what they need…
2) Virtualization for Efficiency: The underlying technology for deploying cloud-based infrastructure, virtualization, enables one physical server to run multiple OS images simultaneously. This reduces physical server footprint, an inherently green advantage. Resource efficiency is another benefit, with the less equipment needed reducing data center space, energy consumption, and e-waste footprint…
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