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I asked one of the IT Managers to give me some quick tips on how to reduce the carbon footprint of your data center, his replies are below: (Thanks Danny)

• Establish the infrastructure requirements – does this data center, and the underlying applications require N-1 resilience? What tier is the data center and therefore what level of backup and resilience do we need, are we over provisioining?
• Look at the data center temperature in terms of raising it to reduce the cooling costs yet not risk a specific risk to production or a resultant increase in support costs?
• Examine the air flow, the power distribution and the energy efficiency in the data center space
• Use the technologies that are available, lights out, KVM, reduce all the anciliary components that we do not need, whilst managing the on site need at 3am when an engineer needs console access.
• Right size infrastructure, can we ensure that the systems we deploy are not over specified for the actual role, that DL380 necessary for that file server, or could we use a 360? A virtual machine? Could we use SAN storage or NAS rather than an array shelf of physical external disks?
• Consolidate applications, roles and infrastructure – do we need everything that we have, this includes reducing the complexity of the feeds and services – what duplicate roles and feeds do we have in this space – operationally and technically – could we have one service providing the feeds rather than eight different ones owned by several business lines

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