How to use cloud computing to save energy

Usually the technical discussion around this business, often easily because involves complicated business and into a disorderly state. And IT departments and the media are trying to predict the future of a new wave of applications, cross-platform application of the feasibility of constantly questioned, and around the emerging technology is constantly hype. The current society is becoming more and more inclined to focus on microscopic trends, ignoring the bigger and more pressing technical problems. There is no bigger issue than cloud computing technology at the moment.


　　


media coverage of the cloud of the hype is already close to saturation. Is cloud computing too hype or real? How do you define cloud computing? Which applications are best suited to the cloud? In fact, the question we should most discuss is what major challenges cloud computing can solve?


　　


answer is: it can solve the IT energy crisis.


　　


the term "crisis" may sound exaggerated, but it is very realistic. Online data explosion growth is well documented, while IDC estimates that the "digital world" will reach 1,800,000,001,000 trillion by the end of 2011. In addition, as of 2007, the reality of the US data center industry was that its data storage, management and data extraction consumed nearly 2% of the nation's total electricity consumption. Storage, management, and data value extraction require a lot of energy, and while data growth and energy consumption can be controlled, the growing trend is unstoppable. Innovative solutions are needed to make appropriate adjustments and to address this trend.


　　


Cloud Computing provides a new solution.


　　


believes that the vast majority of people will agree that cloud computing has evolved from previous models to the common computing and SaaS models of today. The key to cloud computing design is to provide instant scalability to businesses of all sizes in a very flexible way. The key lies in the advantages of flexibility, simplicity and cost-effectiveness. However, in the past few years, although cloud computing has become more and more widely adopted, other advantages are rarely reflected in corporate it.


　　


First, as the economic downturn shakes the foundations of the IT market, it is important to know how to get more investment. Second, since companies are actively working to reduce costs and maximize resources, they face the reality of increased demand for computing and rising energy costs. It is difficult to manage the increasing demand for computing at the same time as reducing costs.


　　


to cope with rising energy consumption, many companies, even federal agencies, have created a series of measures to try to cope with the rising power energy problem. Government agencies have publicly stated that their aim is to reduce the cost of energy in the data center percent. In addition, some specific institutions, including New York State's Nyserda, provide up to $10 million trillion in financial incentives to reduce energy consumption in data centers.


　　


since early users of cloud computing have fully experienced their powerful, user-friendly solution effects, they have brought significant energy costs down. So, cloud computing is destined to meet more user needs.


　　


but it's not as simple as it sounds. In theory, moving the computing workload of the Local data center to cloud computing simply concentrates the energy consumption scattered everywhere in the cloud. But the energy crisis has not been resolved, and it is just being consolidated. That's why energy efficiency is the biggest problem associated with cloud computing, forcing cloud providers to implement very high-performance server solutions. Such protection measures are not only feasible today, but must also be feasible in the future.


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