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December 13, 2007

SaaS is Green!

Software applications that are architected and delivered as Software as a Service (SaaS), provides server and storage consolidation, which means reduced power consumption.

In the Electronic Document Management and Business Process Automation industry, software license or ASP vendors typically require their customers to operate the software on multiple servers, one for the database, one for the application, one for the workflow, etc. At the very least, they want their application running on it's own server so that they can "support" it. You know that if MS Exchange is running on the same server that your EDMS is running on, Exchange is causing any errors that might occur. In the SMB market, the weakest server you can buy is overkill for an EDMS. The CPU runs at about 2% and you get more storage than you know what to do with. Oh yeah, don't forget you have to back all that stuff up too. Another tape drive for the server closet...

Without doing the math, I think you can see that if a SaaS vendor can put 50 customers on one server instead of 50 servers, there is a savings in power. Plus, you have now enabled 50 companies to allow telecommuting. That could save some gasoline as long as those telecommuters aren't heading out to the beach on the days they are "working" from home. Wireless Broadband sure makes that easy!

Posted by Dave on December 13, 2007 02:48 PM

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