Green Business Solutions
Solutions for small and medium businesses
Green businesses have identified the need to incorporate cost savings and energy efficiency. Faced with the issue of an energy efficient data center, businesses are looking for ways to optimize their computing environments to the benefit of their bottom line and our planet. IBM believes the two efforts are highly complementary.
The advantage
IBM and IBM Business Partners have solutions that can help make your IT infrastructure energy efficient.
Our solutions will help you meet the following challenges:
- Continued rise of overall energy costs and demand
- Cost of air conditioning to cool data centers or computer rooms
- Concern over power surges and shortages affecting business
- Government-imposed levies on carbon production and regulations on power consumption and waste
- Increasing drive towards centralized data centers
- Too many servers that are partially used or not used to capacity
- Need for an environmentally safe way to dispose of old software or hardware
Our energy efficient solutions are based on proven technologies utilized by IBM and its customers to realize immediate, tangible return on investments through implementation of more efficient IT practices. By focusing on energy efficiency within your IT department or organization, you can lower your overall energy expenses and optimize your existing server capacities to free up budget for business-critical solutions. And you get to do your part in preserving resources for the greater good.
Benefits
Through the adoption of energy efficient and “green” practices, you can:
- Reduce energy costs
- Regain power and cooling capacity
- Reach additional server capacity
- Recapture resiliency
- Recycle end-of-life equipment
Next steps
Diagnose / Build
Data center services - Infrastructure solutions:
- Server and Storage Power/Cooling Trends and Data Center Best Practices
- Data Center Thermal Analysis & Optimization
- Data Center Energy Efficiency Optimization
- Data Center Health Audit
- IT Systems Power Evaluation
- IT Systems Energy Efficiency Assessment
- Data Center Infrastructure Energy Optimization
- Data Center Thermal Analysis and Optimization- IBM Power 520 Express
- IBM Power 550 Express
- IBM BladeCenter® JS12 Express
- BladeCenter S Chassis
- IBM Point of Sale systems
- IBM System StorageTM N3300/N3600 Express
- IBM Facilities Assessment, Design and Construction
- IBM Server Optimization and Integration Services - server consolidation
- IBM Rational Method Composer
- IBM Rational RequisitePro
Virtualize
- IBM System x BladeCenter Virtualization Solutions
- SAN Volume Controller
- IBM Tivoli TotalStorage Productivity Center
- IBM Storage Optimization and Integration Services
- IBM Server Optimization and Integration Services - VMware server virtualization
- IBM Implementation Services for System x - ServicePac for VMware
- IBM Implementation Services for System x - ServicePac for IBM Director
- IBM Rational Software Modeler
Manage / Cool
- IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager
- IBM Rear Door Heat eXchanger
- IBM Tivoli Monitoring Express
- IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager
- IBM Tivoli Storage Manager
- IBM Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files
- Tivoli Usage and Accounting
- IBM System x and BladeCenter Power Configurator
- Create Active Energy Management
- Remote Managed Infrastructure Services
- IBM Rational Performance Tester
- Optimized Airflow Assessment
Finance
Learn more
- Still waiting to go green? Now's the time to reduce your energy costs with IBM green IT solutions
- IBM Retail Green Initiative
- IBM tackles IT energy efficiency in a Big Green way
- IBM mid-market customer RackForce grows fast and green
- Bryant University datacenter built to scale efficiently
- Case study: Bryant University boosts energy efficiency with a solution from IBM and IBM Alliance Partner APC
- Video: How Bryant University boost energy efficiency
- Energy Efficiency Self-Assessment Tool
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