For many organisations, the issue of reducing carbon emissions has already reached the boardroom. It has gone from being a nice to have, to be a business essential. IT has, in the past been identified as one the biggest energy consumers within the business environment and blamed for its high energy consumption. Things have now changed. Green computing is now a reality.
We believe that IT can now be part of the solution, not part of the problem. That’s why we’re committed to helping our customers reduce their carbon footprints.
Green Computing Audit
Before you can take actions to reduce the carbon footprint of your IT infrastructure you need to know where to start. Which areas of your infrastructure are using the most power? Where could the biggest carbon reductions be made – are your desktops or servers the biggest issue for example?
A recent survey found that 86% of IT departments can’t answer these questions and don’t know what their carbon footprint is. Having spent time working with customers to help them answer these important questions, we’ve developed a specific Green Computing Audit service that will :
Calculate the carbon footprint of your existing IT infrastructure
Identify best routes to carbon footprint reduction
Document findings to help build a business case
Post implementation calculations to help demonstrate carbon reduction results
This automated audit service utilizes unique software that we have developed ourselves and uses calculations from the Carbon Trust to identify your carbon footprint.
Developing a Green strategy
We believe that by reviewing your existing infrastructure and your strategic aims, we can identify an economically and ecologically responsible solution to make green computing a reality :
Virtualisation - reduce infrastructure sprawl to increase utilisation and reduce power and cooling energy consumption
Desktops – deploy applications to energy efficient thin-client devicesÂ
Re-use existing infrastructure – increase sustainability by re-using your existing infrastructure within a DR site for example
Energy efficient hardware – leading vendors are now producing increasingly energy efficient hardware giving you the same, or increased processing power while using less space, cooling and power