Green IT – Energy Efficiency
Green IT concerns are evolving from discussions of cost savings. Faced with the issue of an energy efficient data center, businesses are looking for ways to optimise their computing environments to the benefit of their bottom line and our planet. IBM's Green IT initiative believes the two efforts are highly complimentary.
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As a growing company you face growing demands. Increase IT capacity while also keeping a very tight grip on costs. IBM's Green IT Server Room Solutions can help you lower your total cost of ownership. With an approach that covers three key areas:
Building the foundation for a better server room Plan or update IT infrastructure to be energy
efficient, comply with government and industry regulations.
Virtualising to do more with your infrastructure Virtualisation can help you increase server
utilisation, consolidate workloads onto fewer servers, and lower your IT maintenance costs.
Accurately measuring energy consumption It’s crucial for companies today to monitor - and
reduce - power consumption. Not only because energy costs are continuously rising, but inefficient power
usage can lead to hotspots and downtime.
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Plan or update IT infrastructure to be energy efficient, comply with government and industry regulations.
Build a foundation for the server room that will improve its functionality and cost-effectiveness. Start by taking a closer look at the overall design of your server room. See what is working to your advantage — and where you can make improvements that will meet your company’s needs not only today, but also over the long run. This means optimising your IT infrastructure so you can grow your company instead of your costs. It also means a leaner, greener IT that’s designed to be environmentally-friendly.
Virtualise/Simplify
Simplify to save energy
Increase server utilisation, consolidate workloads onto fewer servers, and lower your IT maintenance costs. Virtualisation (one physical server used to create many virtual servers) can help you do all that. It also gives you more flexibility - so you can distribute your workloads to meet changing business requirements. As your company grows, you can continue to add virtual servers while keeping your costs flat. (Virtual servers can be deployed in days, not weeks.) And simplifying your IT can save energy and help the environment.
Manage
Reducing energy consumption for a Green IT
Do you know how much power your IT infrastructure is using? It’s crucial for companies today to monitor - and reduce - power consumption. Not only because energy costs are continuously rising, but inefficient power usage can lead to hotspots and downtime. With better control over energy usage, you can
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