Will Cloud Computing Kill The Server Market?
June 11, 2013
Grazed from Forbes. Author: Michael Kanellos.
The cloud computing era is upon us, and if you make servers, life could really begin to stink. A report today from Lawrence Berkeley Lab—which we previewed last week at Google GOOG -0.82%’s “How Green is the Internet” conference—examines what would happen if businesses around the country shifted from owning their own data centers and servers to handing responsibility for email and productivity applications to cloud providers.
The energy savings, the authors found, would be tremendous. The energy required to manage data centers (and produce the equipment used inside them) would drop by 87%, from 373 petajoules a year to 47 petajoules, a year…
The energy savings would be enough to power Los Angeles for a year, every year. “Despite these uncertainties, the energy savings potential of cloud-based software is likely to be substantial on a national scale given the vast differences between the energy efficiencies of local and cloud data centers,” the report said…
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