Building Business Systems for Fun & Profit

I'm increasingly starting to notice stories like this one, about small/medium businesses taking environment issues more seriously and looking to reduce their carbon footprint.

This article talks about businesses buying more power-efficient servers, and indeed that's a step forward. But even better is getting rid of your servers completely!

You see, servers installed at small businesses are always going to be under-utilised - there just simply aren't enough people logged on and hammering them to keep them busy, that's why they tick along at something like 5% CPU usage all day.

That means 95% of their cost, 95% of the power they use and 95% of the carbon emitted as a result, is completely wasted. Needless wasted, too.

Your business lacks one essential ingredient for effective use of I.T. and that's scale. Even though you only need 5% of a server you can't buy only 5% of a server, so you have to buy a whole server which is 20 times more than you need...or do you?

I.T. on Tap works by bringing scale to the small business space. We aggregate the needs of all our small clients together, and then we're able to meet those needs much more efficiently than they could on their own.

For example, we estimate that every 1 of our servers replaces around 11 to 13 servers that our small/medium business clients would otherwise install and run at their offices.

That's reflected in the load on our servers: even with a more efficient infrastructure, our servers run at typical loads of around 50% - they're simply doing a lot more work, since there are fewer of them for the same number of people.

An 11 to 1 reduction, isn't that a HUGE cut in power consumption and carbon emissions? We think so, and that's why we're determined to get the word out:

Do your bit to fight climate change: turn off your server today!