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5 CloudBolt Industry Insights Report: The Truth About IT Sustainability: Paying More Green to Get More Green IT/cloud sustainability is a collective effort and each player in the cloud ecosystem needs to play its part. Saving the planet for future generations has to be the result of many contributions from responsible, forward-thinking companies and the people who work for them. The rising tide raises all sustainable ships. Some issues transcend normal competitive boundaries. Sustainability is one of them. Whether we complement or compete, the most important thing is that everyone participating in the New Cloud Order contributes to lower carbon footprints and better conservation. No one company can solve it all. But together, through our fractional efforts, cloud as an industry can make an important difference. Growing a Green Conscience: Everyone in the Cloud Ecosystem Needs to Play Their Part We at CloudBolt are striving to do our part – making our contribution by helping enterprises eliminate wasteful resource use and create the optimal infrastructure resource allocation addressing equally the needs of developers, operations and security teams. In the process, companies are able to reduce private cloud server sprawl and public cloud vendors are able to right-size capacity to affect computing and cooling costs. Specifically, we aim to optimally allocate infrastructure resources through intelligent automation. We remove the manual intervention and cycles, and provide visibility that pinpoints areas of waste and identify the operational changes that have the most impact. We equip developers to choose a balanced approach to deploying their application changes and code in production – as opposed to over-provisioning resources; we help developers and operations choose the optimal balance between performance, resources and cost. Then we can turn off idle resources – such as "zombie" VMs running without a purpose – during nights and weekends. We alert engineers when they are provisioning new cloud resources unnecessarily or offer more efficient options for their needs. We aim to cut waste, optimize performance and reduce the infrastructure footprint – making the most of limited resources. Committed to Playing Our Part