"Green IT" through Cloud Computing & Green Computing.

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Cloud Computing and Green computing have been mostly talked about issue as we all know. This is due to the necessity to increase efficiency in doing work while ensuring the environment factor is taken into consideration. Nowadays with increase usage of technology in business or any organizations, the consumption of energy power is high and too expensive. At times these organizations and business companies don’t fully utilize their technology devices which eventually lead to waste of money and technology resources. Hence, what can we do to overcome this problem???

Some IT experts have suggested that cloud computing may be able to help save energy consumption and money making it much more affordable for business and organization usage. Business and organization can move to the additional computing power and resources available when they need them, if they have a cloud computing service available. Furthermore, cost can be cut down as they don’t need to be paying for serves which are basically running 24 hours although their not using it. Thus, by merging cloud computing and green computing, the concept of Green IT could be achieved.

What do you think of the idea of achieving “Green IT” through Cloud Computing & Green Computing???

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Internet references:

Cloud Computing's Role in Green IT, [Online], Retrieved on 11 October 2010.

URL: http://www.brighthub.com/computing/smb-security/articles/40717.aspx#ixzz122YYN4qv

Go Green with the Cloud, [Online], Retrieved on 11 October 2010.

URL:http://www.infosysblogs.com/cloudcomputing/2009/05/go_green_with_the_cloud.html