As the cloud becomes central to the ways that we work, live, and play, we can no longer ignore its related costs or incredible resource demands.
Analysts estimate that by 2025, every person in the developed world will have at least one interaction with the cloud every 18 seconds of their lifetime.1 The growth in cloud workloads has profound implications for operating costs and resource utilization, particularly for electricity and water. This immense infrastructure requires electricity for power, and since electricity generates heat, it also requires tremendous amounts of water to cool the hardware.
The emerging crisis of rising costs and increased resource utilization in the cloud has created an urgent need to refine, deploy, and advance the suite of techniques, technologies, and business practices known as Green Operations (GreenOps).