Why Green for Business
Issues and opportunities around energy, the environment, and sustainability impact every individual and every business. 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. A green IT strategy is becoming a necessity. By combining hardware, software and services offerings, IBM can help companies improve service, better manage risk, and resolve resource constraints-all while reducing overall energy costs by 15-40%.
What we offer
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.
IBM offers the broadest portfolio of industry-standard IBM System x and IBM BladeCenter servers that can help your clients lower IT costs and deliver benefits such as:
- Increased server utilization.
- Reduced system management complexity.
- Lower power and cooling costs.
- Reduced demand for data center floor space.
- Lower IT total cost of ownership.
The IBM Power 520, 550 and 560 Express servers can provide you the technology foundation to manage your businesses efficiently and cost-effectively. Power Systems energy management solutions:
- Monitor and control energy usage to help you manage data center energy efficiency as well as performance, reliability and availability.
- Include innovative solutions which support virtualization and server consolidation efforts proven to help conserve energy usage and manage costs.
This suite of services provides a fixed-price, fixed-scope service for IBM server and storage products to help you with planning, installation, implementation, configuration, testing and basic skills instruction, and offers:
- Effective implementation of storage functionality that can improve performance and scalability, reducing energy and management costs.
- IBM expertise that can help achieve faster, more extensive adoption of technology features for higher return on investment and fewer problems later.
A key component of IBM’s Cool Blue™ portfolio offering, IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager™ helps you understand exact power and cooling costs, manage the efficiency of the current environment and reduce energy costs. This solution:
- Enables platform monitoring and reporting of energy usage across supported servers.
- Helps you understand how energy is used within the server room, and provides the insight required to optimize servers and their workloads for the best performance.
