Benefits of the cloud

The most efficient model for carbon savings

When it comes to environmental impact, salesforce.com’s cloud computing model leaves a much lighter imprint than traditional IT hardware and software.

The savings in the cloud are enormous. By sharing computing resources among a large number of customers–over 100,000+ in our case–you gain enormous economies of scale in the underlying resources, especially when it comes to carbon consumption. To be specific, an average of 95% less carbon--and consequently fewer emissions.

Lots of companies are talking about clouds. But if you’re still buying hardware and going through painful upgrades, you’ve bought a false cloud, a “private cloud.” Whether it runs in a data center, uses virtualization technology, or is hosted, you’re missing the opportunity to be 64% more energy efficient with a real cloud computing solution.

How do we do it? One word: multitenancy.

Salesforce.com’s multitenant architecture is essentially a shared utility, giving it massive economies of scale to optimize computing resources across all our customers. Thanks to that, we save a lot of energy by using a remarkably small number of servers and squeezing everything we can out of them through:

• Optimized runtime processing
• Optimized storage
• Predictable load balancing
• Continual analysis and energy improvement
• Energy efficient servers
• Micro-energy management
• Optimized power consumption
• Standardized architecture

Read more about our data center operations.