GCloud3 – Our New Product, is it Green?

The notion of virtualization in the computing industry — using software to better utilize computers have been around for over a decade. What does Green really mean? How do you help reduce your carbon footprint?

We have decided to point out how energy efficient and carbon-reductive our new product GCloud3. Everyone needs an extra push in this economy.

Servers alone suck up about 1 percent of the world’s electricity use, and software and hardware design will be crucial to keeping that percentage low as more and more devices go online. Already 55 percent of enterprises budget for virtualization of servers.

And the trend of marketing virtualization as a green tool — not just a way to save money by reducing the amount of servers purchased — will keep growing this year.

For individual companies, the tools can help cut energy consumption by 80 percent, and each server taken out of a datacenter cuts out four tons of carbon emissions.

Consolidating your entire network to one box, and swapping out your desktops for thin-clients can lower your energy usage by as much as 97%.

One thing most companies miss is the fact that if your current desktops are re-used after conversion to thin-clients, you will save your computers from ending up in a landfill. When they die, you can recycle them, and replace them with a thin-client, to maximize your energy usage.

One more thing that is forgotten, usually a monitor lasts longer than a computer. When a desktop dies, we replace the monitor and the desktop, because we want the latest and greatest. If the desktop is swapped out with a thin-client, the monitor can stay, and even better, the thin-client can be attached to the back of a monitor, as it is the size of a small book.

So think Green, when you think GCloud3!