WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation

WHY IT MATTERS: software as a service has been growing exponentially for years and the trend continues. This report analyzes the SaaS spend in organizations. I find their analysis of the 10 categories where companies overspend very interesting.

WHY IT MATTERS: always interesting to track internet traffic from the infrastructure providers. Here Cloudflare but also Akamai, etc.

Google uses artificial intelligence to analyze energy consumption in its data center to improve cooling and reduce energy consumption by 40%.

The paper also links to other most interesting links on data center operations including:

• efficiency in google data centers: http://bit.ly/2a9cYHH
• more on machine learning in data centers: http://bit.ly/2a9dzJi 
• report on global data centers producing 2% of total green house emissions worldwide: http://bit.ly/2a9dm8W 

WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT

Energy is the main cost of data center operations so this is great news. Companies should thus use this news to further move their computing to the cloud as large data centers - Google, Amazon, Microsoft and others - are way more efficient than anything even large corporations can do.

This is true for energy consumption, and I contend it is also true for many other areas including security and speed of implementation. It is essential that any digital transformation make cloud computing the primary de facto standard over any on-premise operation.