Saving Energy with Online Service and Software
Reduce your hardware costs
The Software as a Service (SaaS) delivery model offers a two punch combination to carbon dioxide emission reductions. The first punch is purely from the economies of scale realized from centralized processing and a shared services model. Instead of thousands of customers individually operating thousands of servers and the power hungry facilities to support those servers, the SaaS multi-tenant model centralizes data center operations to use less equipment and a small fraction of the supporting facility costs. When you recognize that supporting facility costs outweigh the cost and emissions production of the servers and related computer equipment you get a handle on how material this savings really is.
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