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Producing meaningful, long-term energy savings in IT operations depends on a strategic planning and execution process.

The goal is to seek out long-term gains from prudent, short-term investments, whenever possible. It makes little sense to invest piecemeal in areas that offer poor returns, when a careful cost-benefit analysis for each specific enterprise can identify the true wellsprings of IT energy conservation.

The latest BriefingsDirect podcast discussion therefore targets significantly reducing energy consumption across data centers strategically. In it we examine four major areas that result in the most energy policy bang for the buck — virtualization, application modernization, data-center infrastructure best practices, and properly planning and building out new data-center facilities.

Check out this article talking about energy efficiency and linking to a podcast, it’s an interesting read and raises some great points about how combining the new Intel Xeon processor with better systems design has reduced the power consumption and energy efficiency of the new servers. That simply refreshing your servers might reduce your power consumption and hardware support costs, (it’s often cheaper to support newer hardware).

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