Focused Green IT Benefits

Leave high-level measures to the enterprise sustainability initiative and focus the IT organization on metrics that are in their path of control. ...

... "To sustain focus and support for a green IT strategy, CIOs must select granular performance metrics that enable comparison and prioritisation, such as percentage of equipment entered into recycling programs and power usage efficiency (PUE) or KW/CPU hours delivered. " ...

Via Silicon: CIO Green Guide

Data Center Efficiency Project Targets Cooling System

IBM leverages measurement tools from its Research Division to identify and implement energy savings opportunities in the cooling system of Toyota's California data center. Electricity provider, Southern California Edison, created a baseline and validated power demand decrease. ...

... "IBM also piloted an extension of MMT which includes real-time sensors that are distributed in strategic places throughout the data center. The updated version of the technology allowed IBM to constantly monitor temperature distributions throughout the project. " ...

Via IBM: Toyota Motor Sales Data Center

Data Center Deep Dive with Google

... Video provides perspectives on the green data center using Google's experience and outside-in viewpoints from industry experts.

Want Fries with that Data Center

A sign of the times ... Syracuse works with IBM to create efficient data center with cogen facility. The University will use the facility to lead and to learn. ...

... "SU will manage and analyze the performance of the center, as well as research and develop new data center energy efficiency analysis and modeling tools. IBM will provide more than $5 million in equipment, design services and support, which includes supplying the electrical cogeneration equipment and servers such as IBM BladeCenter, IBM Power 575 and an IBM z10 systems. " ...

Via IBM: Syracuse University Data Center

Certifiably Green

As IT sustainability objectives become more prevalent, the British Computer Society creates a certificate in Green IT to prepare IT professionals for development of a green IT strategy. ...

... "By the end of the three day course, candidates will have a fundamental understanding of the importance of IT when trying to achieve an organisation's green objective, an ability to identify their own green IT requirements and how to address them. " ...

Via British Computer Society: Green IT Qualification

Google Data Center Efficiency

Tour Google's efficient container data center ...

Green Networks and Devices

Devices connected to networks are a significant source of energy inefficiency. Cisco targets energy monitoring and building management through its intelligent network offering. Sustainable IT needs to look beyond the data center. ...

... "Cisco EnergyWise is part of the company's technology roadmap for changing the value-chain of information technology (IT) by placing the intelligent network squarely at the center of how companies reduce greenhouse gas (GhG) emissions across their entire organization. " ...

Via Cisco: Green Network

Green Performance Monitoring

Google uses standard data center efficiency metric to monitor performance, identify opportunities for improvement, and track the impact of its actions. The trends are impressive and efficiency gains drop straight to their bottom line. ...

... "We achieve this result without the use of any exotic techniques the EPA report assumes are necessary to reach this level of efficiency. Individual facilities can return even lower PUE values, with at least one facility returning a TTM PUE of 1.15. Our lowest published quarterly average PUE of an individual facility is 1.12, meaning that all electrical losses and cooling overhead combined used just 12% of the IT load. We believe that each of these data centers ranks among the most efficient large data centers currently in operation today. " ...

Via Google : Green Data Center Trends

Integrated Thinking for Green Computing

The information technology industry can take advantage of low-hanging fruit to make their data centers more efficient in the short-term. However, in the long-run, a holistic, integrated view of the data center design will yield leading energy performance. ...

... "For instance, a strict policy should be in place for selecting UPS providers, floor systems or high co-efficient of performance chillers, which work efficiently in combination. " ...

Via Silicon Republic: Data Center Energy Saver

IT Vendor Green Ranking

ABI Research did nice job with this green vendor ranking, looking for the vendors to "eat their own dog food" by implementing sustainable practices internally as well as offering green products as services. HP edges out the competition, but it is good to see the large vendors making strong moves in this area. ...

... "Hewlett-Packard emerged as the winner in ABI Research’s Innovation category, which measures how green a vendor’s products are. It was a very close contest because of the extensive efforts both IBM and Cisco have been making in this market. " ...

Via ABI Research: The Greenness of Data Center Equipment Vendors

PC Energy Footprint

Considering a project proposal for energy efficiency in the data center? Don't forget your personal computers and peripherals as an opportunity to reduce your energy footprint. ...

... "PCs and related peripherals consumed 41% of the information and communication technology's global footprint – telecoms infrastructure, data centers, and printers consumed 37%, 14% and 8%, respectively. " ...

Via Forrester: PC Power Management

Virtual is Green

Managing a project virtually? Team dispersed globally? Travelling less? Team wearing pajamas and fuzzy slippers, yet project remains on-schedule? Using collaborative tools, such as team workspaces, teleconferences, virtual whiteboards, instant messaging, web seminars, etc.? You are enabling sustainability in your enterprise. Do this across your project portfolio and there is a tangible payback. ...

... "Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5 for collaboration that offers green benefits for end users and IT departments by enabling significant reductions in travel and commuting. " ...

Via : Software for a Greener World

IBM Researches Green Computing Methods

Creative approach to cpu cooling is being explored by IBM researchers. ...

... "Michel see advantages in running them at the current level of 200F. He thinks of the chips as little furnaces from which heat can be removed and reused - by piping it off-site to warm houses or businesses. " ...

Via Business Week: Chilling Biochemistry

Green IT Forum in Feb

Green IT Forum is scheduled for February 28th in New York City. ...

... "The IDC Green IT Forum is designed for senior IT, technology, procurement and strategic planning executives tasked with managing the role of Green IT to effectively measure and capture market opportunities for energy efficient systems. " ...

Via IDC: Event Details

IT Sustainability Role

IT has a role to play in an enterprise's sustainability program, from power consumption to the appropriate utilization of the computing assets. Sustainable business is IT's business. ...

... "The increasing energy requirements of data storage can no longer be ignored by the IT manager. The growing amount of uncontrolled storage cannot be allowed to carry on indefinitely. " ...

Via CRM Today: Sustainability for IT Management

Japan Green IT Strategy

The impact of information technology on a country's energy usage is significant. Japan is making a concerted effort to become more efficient and create the green data center. ...

... "Japan's Green IT Project aims to reduce the power consumption of IT equipment by 40% in 2025. " ...

Via Semiconductor International: Green IT

Green is INnovative

Sun offers advice on green IT strategy and provides assessment toolkit as part of its eco initiative launch. ...

... "1. Assess Your Datacenter: Sun has resources available that you can use to measure the current efficiency and environmental impact of your datacenter, or we can do it for you. Based on the results, we can recommend ways to optimize space, power, and cooling for better efficiency and utilization across your IT infrastructure.

2. Optimize Your Infrastructure: Customers can upgrade their old equipment to new models that are the most energy efficient and powerful systems possible. Sun systems can deliver improved performance, power and cooling efficiencies as well as provide additional capacity in your facility.

3. Deploy Virtualization Technologies: Sun's virtualization solution is built upon industry-proven virtualization technologies – from desktop, to server, to disk and tape, and includes the free and open Solaris OS that runs across more than 890 Sun and non-Sun systems and has built-in virtualization and Predictive Self-Healing features. These products, combined with innovative programs, tools, services, and strategic partnerships can help customers achieve greater utilization, greater manageability, and significant savings, while bypassing power and space limitations. " ...

Via Sun Micro: Sun Eco Innovation Initiative

Green IT Strategy Increasing

Financial firm sees IT's contribution to sustainability. ...

... "The bank is launching trials of new technology, benchmarking data centre energy consumption and reviewing the environmental credentials of its suppliers. " ...

Via VNUnet: Green Approach to Information Technology

Green Computing Project

Project looks to target significant energy efficiency in computing. ...

... "Dubbed Green Shift, the project will replace energy-absorbing PCs with greener alternatives in up to 10 cities by the end of 2009. " ...

Via Belfast Telegraph: Green Project