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Small and Medium Businesses (SMBs) stand to benefit greatly from cloud computing. This green computing technology allows companies to pay for server space on a pay-as-you-go basis. In this way, cloud computing frees SMB owners from purchasing and renewing expensive software and on-site storage for each employee. Instead of maintaining stacks on stacks of servers on-site, cloud computing users purchase space on remote servers maintained by companies such as Amazon and Google. Everything from basic word processing programs to complex data analysis applications can then be accessed through the internet, rather than stored on individual hard drives or local servers. In addition to instant scalability and lowered operating costs, a major benefit of cloud computing is that it allows remote access of business applications and documents.

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Humans are fond of creating fancy terms for simple phenomena. Nowhere is this truer than in IT. The term we’ll be dissecting today is “PC power management,” or simply “power management” in some circles. Stumbling around the web, you may have spotted this buzz term and wondered what the heck it meant. Here’s a basic definition: power management is turning off computers when they’re not in use.

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Those who make their livings making predictions and coming up with cute names are calling 2010 “The Year of the Cloud.” To my mind that phrase brings up an image of Yoda in Dinotopia, but it’s really referring to the shift from hardware-based data storage to data storage in “the cloud,” i.e., online. The advent of Google docs and any number of other online storage systems means that companies can now store their information in The Cloud, rather than maintaining costly server centers on site. For the small- to medium-sized business (SMB), the switch to The Cloud offers an unprecedented opportunity to customize software usage and data storage. As we’ve explained in previous posts, if The Cloud allows companies to use pay-as-you-go models for software (usually referred to as SaaS, or Software as a Service), and to store information online, it could indeed be Green, since businesses would need far fewer IT resources on-site.

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In a world where resources are becoming more and more costly, conserving those resources not only helps the environment but has a clear impact on an organization’s bottom line. The greatest energy consumer for any given small to mid-size business is, perhaps, its data center. Yet, for many businesses, the amount of data center electricity usage seems like a necessity… (more…)

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An interesting interview caught my attention today concerning the realities of print and online media. Many companies are “going green” with e-commerce, offering products and services every where from eBooks to eBills. But is converting to digital really greener than sticking with paper? The answer might not be as clear-cut as you think.

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