Going green can actually save you a bunch of “green”, as in money. How’s that? Well, if you’re reducing your energy consumption in the work place, at home, in your car then it’s highly likely you’ll be reducing your energy bills. There’s lots of small steps we can all take to reduce energy consumption: digital thermostats, easing off the gas pedal, flying commercial instead of taking the private jet. Simple stuff. In the technology world one of the biggest movements is virtualization in the data center. The idea is to reduce the number of physical servers. Virtualization technology allows you to build multiple virtual servers onto a single physical server. The fewer physical servers there are to power up then the less energy is consumed. I’ve seen reports that datacenter power consumption can be greatly reduced when virtualization is implemented (see slide 4 here as an example). It’s an innovative way to save some “green”.
Mailprotector has been helping customers be green and save “green” for a long time now. We’ve assisted by reducing the amount of power the customer needs to run their email infrastructure. Our Scan and Forward service blocks over 90% of all spam before it ever reaches the customers’ network. That means less bandwidth is consumed and less processing power is used by the customers’ gateway servers and mail servers. Our Hosted Exchange 2007 and Scan and Store services eliminate the need for a mail server to be on the customer site. Customers use less electricity since they don’t maintain mail servers at their facilities. By using less energy our customers are paying less for utilities. That’s a good thing to be able to save money, especially in these tight economic times.
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