Published on 04 August 2009
"Going green" is rapidly becoming a household term.
What does it mean to be "green" and how does it apply to data centers?
It's about increasing awareness of your environmental "footprint"
or the ecological or environmental impact your activities have on
the world around you. It means becoming more aware of how resource
consumption within the data center affects things such as electricity
usage and carbon emissions.
For data centers, going green also means how you can operate them
in a more environmentally friendly way. Once you understand how
your organization consumes resources or generates emissions and
how to measure them, you can take the first steps toward becoming
"green."
How IT Can "Green" the Data Center
Most IT organizations start the "greening" process by gaining an
understanding of energy and resource consumption, and then look
for ways to minimize resources in relation to the amount of useful
work performed. For example, when you leave systems running indefinitely,
even though they do not perform useful work, you are wasting resources;
however, this situation provides an opportunity to conserve resources
and cut operating costs. Addressing areas where non-critical systems
or underutilized applications consume resources is an easy place
to begin the green conversion.
To read further, please visit the Data Center Journal
website:
http://datacenterjournal.com/content/view/3057/43/
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