Green Data Center : Organizational Solutions

This is part 3 of a 3-part series about Green Data center
After discussing the technology solutions for Green data center, lets take a look at the organizational changes that would be required.

Management or Organizational Approaches
Incentive backed programs
The CIO office will have to ensure that energy optimization and reduction is energy cost is part of IT [...]

Green Data Center: Technology Solutions

This is part 2 of a 3-part series.
The Greening of IT can be looked at from two perspectives, technology oriented approaches and management or organizational approach. Let’s discuss the technology approach to begin with.
Technology Approaches:
Server Consolidation
A long standing myth in data centers has been that each application requires its own server for security and stability [...]

Green Data Center : Why is it important?

According to IDC, the amount of money spent world wide on power and cooling server is set to double from $26 billion last year to $44 billion in 2010. The environmental agency in the United States estimated that data centers consumed around about 61 billion kilowatt-hours in 2006 and that’s likely to have increased now. But the fact is that power costs is only part of the problem. The rising property taxes too are putting pressure on the CIO to rethink their data center strategy.