New data shows carbon reduction benefits of cloud computing

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4 Nov 2010 9:00 AM

Beyond the commonly cited benefits of cloud computing — such as cost savings and increased agility — cloud computing has the potential to significantly reduce the energy use and carbon footprint associated with running business applications. A new study by Microsoft, Accenture and WSP Environment & Energy shows that using Microsoft’s large-scale, efficient datacenters to run common business applications can dramatically reduce the per-user carbon footprints for small, medium and large sized companies compared to the onsite deployment of the identical software.

The study compared the energy use and carbon emissions per user for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 and Microsoft Dynamics CRM with their cloud-based equivalents: Microsoft Exchange Online, Microsoft SharePoint Online and Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online.

The results: for large deployments, Microsoft’s cloud solutions can reduce energy use and carbon emissions by more than 30 percent when compared to their corresponding Microsoft business applications installed on-premise. The benefits are even more impressive for small deployments: Energy use and emissions can be reduced by more than 90 percent with a shared cloud service

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