Comments on: How will green IT and virtualization change the landscape? http://www.bladewatch.com/2009/08/05/how-will-green-it-and-virtualization-change-the-landscape/ Tracking servers and enterprise technology. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:11:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: hodders http://www.bladewatch.com/2009/08/05/how-will-green-it-and-virtualization-change-the-landscape/#comment-44695 hodders Tue, 25 Aug 2009 06:23:40 +0000 http://www.bladewatch.com/?p=6611#comment-44695 From the conversations we have been having, it’s evident that chief information officers are definitely looking to make sure they're not missing out any easy opportunities for savings they haven't thought of yet. <br> <br>Cutting energy waste, reducing carbon emissions and improving resource efficiency is firmly on the CIO agenda and the returns are persuasive. In today’s economy, it is the role of the CIO to integrate and rationalize business information to facilitate sound business decisions and create and deploy an agile enterprise information infrastructure that supports business strategy and leverages existing assets. Cross charging can be seen as a viable consideration as the IT department and business leaders take on more of an appreciation of the synergies between each other’s roles. <br> <br>So to answer your question ‘how will Green IT and virtualisation change the landscape? The answer is simple. Green IT and virtualisation are natural evolutions. Perhaps it’s more a case of ‘enhance’ rather than ‘change’; either way, it’s an evolution that must be taken charge of and cannot be ignored. From the conversations we have been having, it’s evident that chief information officers are definitely looking to make sure they're not missing out any easy opportunities for savings they haven't thought of yet.

Cutting energy waste, reducing carbon emissions and improving resource efficiency is firmly on the CIO agenda and the returns are persuasive. In today’s economy, it is the role of the CIO to integrate and rationalize business information to facilitate sound business decisions and create and deploy an agile enterprise information infrastructure that supports business strategy and leverages existing assets. Cross charging can be seen as a viable consideration as the IT department and business leaders take on more of an appreciation of the synergies between each other’s roles.

So to answer your question ‘how will Green IT and virtualisation change the landscape? The answer is simple. Green IT and virtualisation are natural evolutions. Perhaps it’s more a case of ‘enhance’ rather than ‘change’; either way, it’s an evolution that must be taken charge of and cannot be ignored.

]]> By: Greg Ratcliff http://www.bladewatch.com/2009/08/05/how-will-green-it-and-virtualization-change-the-landscape/#comment-44663 Greg Ratcliff Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:01:38 +0000 http://www.bladewatch.com/?p=6611#comment-44663 While many of us constantly strive to be as green as possible, as business managers we have a responsibility to our businesses to maximize the profitability of our organizations. These may appear to be in conflict, but there are reasonable and appropriate improvements we can implement today. From choosing servers with high efficiency power supplies to retiring hardware in favor of utilizing virtual servers, we can satisfy both goals. For example, simply improving PUE may not result in the best overall efficiency (which is maximum output for a given input), but the previous suggestions do. Many of these decisions simultaneously provide an ROI and support green initiatives. Just as consumers have demanded greener, more efficient vehicles and the industry has begun to respond, so it has begun with data centers. While many of us constantly strive to be as green as possible, as business managers we have a responsibility to our businesses to maximize the profitability of our organizations. These may appear to be in conflict, but there are reasonable and appropriate improvements we can implement today. From choosing servers with high efficiency power supplies to retiring hardware in favor of utilizing virtual servers, we can satisfy both goals. For example, simply improving PUE may not result in the best overall efficiency (which is maximum output for a given input), but the previous suggestions do. Many of these decisions simultaneously provide an ROI and support green initiatives. Just as consumers have demanded greener, more efficient vehicles and the industry has begun to respond, so it has begun with data centers.

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