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Not so long ago when green computing was considered hype. Or vaporware. Or something in between. But now, whether you attribute it to climate change, increased energy costs or looming cap and trade legislation, green computing is coming. Even those that scoff at very notion of “green” as a feel-good movement will find it unavoidable, as OEMs are taking carbon emissions and power and cooling into account with new and future product releases.

It is also being positioned as a way to save money. Think about it, if you consume less power, you’re paying less for power, so it’s a win all around. A recent survey, commissioned by Symantec and performed by Applied Research confirms this. It found Green IT is no longer the wish list item, it was 12 months ago, Jose Iglesias, vice president of Global Solutions at Symantec told ServerWatch.

Of the 1,052 worldwide respondents (only about one-third of which were in the United States), 97 percent are discussing their green IT strategies, while 45 percent have already implemented one.

Check out this article talking about Green Computing, which continues to be a topic for discussion. Green IT is not necessarily something we implement overnight, however making small changes in your consumption, in your server provisioning coupled with virtualization can be the start towards a ‘Green IT’ operation. We need to be looking at all the elements of the IT from the data center, to the assets and the services, simple things like printing – could we reduce the amount of printing and internal corporate literature we publish, can we change the way we do business, the way we communicate ever so slightly in doing so transform our operating costs and improve the corporate social responsibility results?

Some quick thoughts in the office in the Green IT space:

• Switching off the pcs and printers at night – more thin client low energy/virtualized desktop offerings
• Energy efficient printing – can we use lower power printers, with printer management tools to reduce waste
• Data center design, power and air flow distribution
• Energy efficient servers (including the components), storage and networking
• Application coding with efficiency in compute and resource requirements
• Storage mapping and analysis – do we need that much data ‘online’ and available on demand – the need to architect applications, infrastructure and data to the most efficient platform – archive all log files older than a month to tape etc.

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