Cloud and Green IT
Clever Cloud: a cloud green by design
IT at the service of sobriety
Key points
Green IT with Clever Cloud
-30% less consumption on average
greater durability of servers
<1,2 PUE for some of our DCs
greater efficiency thanks to the OCP model
A scientific approach to Green IT
Clever Cloud is firmly committed to the fight against climate change. We take a scientific and technical approach to the environmental challenge, based on engineering.
The vast majority of hosting architectures represent an excessive source of resource consumption, whether in terms of the energy used by datacentres or the manufacture of servers and other equipment required for data storage and communications. Servers are often oversized in anticipation of future needs or to absorb fluctuations in traffic. This is not the case at Clever Cloud.
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01 Consuming less and better
With our Cloud and Green IT strategy, we have developed a different approach to consuming less and better, thanks to the technological solutions we create and use. Our architectures are designed to reduce the environmental footprint and ensure the sustainability of our servers.
The intelligent management of our machines enables up to 30% CPU savings thanks to the optimisation of our software and the adaptation of our system kernel for our hardware architectures. What’s more, we use our servers until the end of their useful life with no loss of performance, to avoid unnecessary replacement, reducing the manufacture of new servers and their environmental impact.0202 Rethinking infrastructure for a leaner cloud
To equip our data centres, we choose OCP (Open Compute Project) servers whose design ensures greater energy efficiency. What’s more, we work with European industrial partners who share our values, such as Kalray, Scaleway and Qarnot.
0303 Cleaner datacentres
Clever Cloud chooses environmentally-friendly datacentres and works on technologies to reduce or reuse the heat generated by servers. What’s more, most of our infrastructure is located in France, and most of it uses low-carbon energy.
0404 Software at the service of ecological commitments
Our software technology ensures that each server is used to its full capacity, without waste. We have designed an infrastructure that instantly optimises the fill rate of each hypervisor, so that only the servers needed are powered.
Our orchestrator continuously adjusts the size of VMs according to the resources required by applications, thanks to intelligent supervision and dynamic allocation. If your application requires fewer resources, it automatically switches to a more economical VM, and vice versa if necessary. In this way, every watt spent is maximised for as many applications as possible, eliminating under-utilised VMs. Clever Cloud ensures energy efficiency by design, keeping your applications running reliably and frugally.
In their own words
“Since we’ve been using your PaaS services, we’ve seen significant efficiency gains and noticeable improvements in a number of areas […] Our expenditure on all our services has fallen by 30%.“
Camille Gras, Co-Founder and CEO of Brumaire.io
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