and Microsoft. "We saw increases in energy costs upward of 65% in some regions year over year," said Sam Chenaur, vice president and global head of infrastructure and cloud at Sanofi.
A metric of efficiency called power-usage effectiveness, or PUE — the energy required for a facility divided by the energy used for computing — is very high at Sanofi, while it's much lower for Azure, Chenaur said. Microsoft's global PUE number works out to 1.
that contractors and employees could use from any computer after Covid began, Chenaur said. Now Sanofi intends to add Azure resources in five locations around the world, said Hamad Riaz, CEO of Mobiz, a technology services provider working with Sanofi. "I would say that we are on a quest to lower overall costs in IT, so we can free that money up, so we can develop more drugs and medicines for patients," he said.
Other companies might look to cloud to deliver more services because of higher demand in a recession. For example,