{"id":2194,"date":"2012-06-19T14:40:14","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T14:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2012\/jun\/19\/google-bigs-green-cloud-it-attainable\/"},"modified":"2012-06-19T14:40:14","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T14:40:14","slug":"google-bigs-the-green-cloud-up-but-is-it-attainable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/google-bigs-the-green-cloud-up-but-is-it-attainable\/","title":{"rendered":"Google bigs the green cloud up, but is it attainable?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent post on the Google Green Blog has revealed that the US General Services Administration saved $285,000 in energy consumption after switching to cloud based apps.<\/p>\n<p>Even though most IT decision makers would freely want to admit they&rsquo;re doing their bit for the environment by migrating to the cloud, the most prominent reason companies migrate would be convenience and, above all, money.<\/p>\n<p>But Google claims the cloud is more energy efficient than people think, and Urs Hoelzle, Google senior vice president for technical infrastructure, explains why.<\/p>\n<p>The reason moving to the cloud would be both cost and energy efficient, Hoelzle notes, is that servers&rsquo; energy is vastly reduced. As the cloud-based solution has fewer servers at better optimisation, the energy levels are decreased.<\/p>\n<p>Google found that, using Google Apps, organisations could decrease their energy costs by anything from 65% to 85% on average.<\/p>\n<p>But what energy sources &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent post on the Google Green Blog has revealed that the US General Services Administration saved $285,000 in energy consumption after switching to cloud based apps.<br \/>\nEven though most IT decision makers would freely want to admit they&rsquo;re doing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}