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“Green computing” isn’t just about saving the world for the next generation. The primary focus is cutting costs, improving efficiency, and getting near-term, measurable results.

The following questions and answers address the business benefits of eco-friendly computing and show strategies for how you can profit by going green.

What is the business rationale for green computing? Power consumption of data centers doubled between 2000 and 2005. Currently, energy costs take up one tenth of the typical IT budget. According to studies, that could leap to 50 percent within a few years.

The upshot, Gartner says, is that 80 percent of the world’s data centers are now constrained by heat, space, and power requirements. Going green has become a business necessity to meet user demands within budget.

A great article from Cityspur.com talking about Green IT, we need to stay on message, working on the right range of technologies and best practices to deliver the most business benefit at the lowest carbon and energy/operational cost.

We need to be looking at the supply and demand change within the business requirements and constraints. For example what changes can we make in the data center to extend it’s operational life:

• Deploy more energy efficient servers/devices – look at performance per watt
• Consolidate server roles and applications and storage – get rid of those disk shelves
• Virtualize the servers we have where possible
• Consider DC power where relevant
• Look at concepts like ‘lights out’ where we have no KVM devices and use only the on board lights out card, with the data center lights being off unless there is someone in the data center
• Improve the air flow so that we are not wasting the effort put in to efficiently cool the servers and devices we have
• Examine the native temperature of the data center, can we raise the temperature of the development environments and save us large amounts in power in the process?
• Look at fresh air cooling where possible
• Application mapping - what needs a server and what can be put on the grid/citrix or web shared platforms

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