The sustainability benefits of moving from on-premises to cloud computing
No matter whether you house your servers, storage, or network equipment in your own data centers, outsource them to a hosting provider, or place them with one of the global cloud hyperscalers such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google, IBM, Oracle, Tencent, or Alibaba, it is probably one of your most resource-intense operations.
The global transition from on-premises data centers to the public cloud is gaining momentum as sustainability moves up the corporate IT and executive teams’ list of priorities. According to Gartner (Gartner 2021), public cloud spending is expected to increase by roughly 22% in 2022. By 2026, the prediction is that 45% of all enterprise IT spending will be on the public cloud. While the cloud is a crucial enabler to meeting the challenges of digital disruption, it is also emerging as a critical mechanism for businesses to achieve their sustainability goals.
According to Gartner...
