RackForce Blog
November 19th, 2008 [by Doug Alder]
ICT (Information Communications Technology) is fast becoming one of the leading causes of global warming due to the enormous amount of power consumed in the production and use of ICT devices and services. Finding ways to reduce that power usage is the key to greening your IT.
These are tough economic times and for a CIO/CTO to justify changes to the CEO he or she needs to stress the economic rewards, not the technical or green aspects, for making radical changes to the company’s ICT infrastructure. As big and important an issue, not to mention being trés cool, as going green is these days, a company’s bottom line and cash flow trump it every time
Across the industry servers utilize only between 10 and 20% of their capacity. Often the same can be said for other gear, such as storage, switches and desktops/laptops (such as do your employees have both a laptop and a desktop computer – if so why?). Making better use of this infrastructure is the first step in gaining efficiency in your ICT and by doing so reduce your TCO (Total Cost of Ownership)and increase your ROI (Return on Investment).
Often in a corporate structure the answer to putting a new piece of software into use has been to dedicate a server strictly for that program. Not only is this a waste of computing resources, it is a waste of the company’s money. That server will be drawing power and require cooling 24 hours a day, seven days a week, sitting mostly unproductive and draining money from the corporate bottom line to keep it running. (more…)
Tags: CO2, datacenter, environmentally friendly, GHG emissions, GigaCenter, Global Climate Change, green grid, Hyper-V, ICT, infrastructure virtualization, RackForce, roi, tco, Virtuozzo, VMware, white paper, Zen
