Why Green IT Strategy?
- Increase of energy consumption (digital economy, storage size …) combines with increasing cost pressure (energy pricing, natural resources, financial crisis)
- Data Centres represent up to 70% of IT energy consumption
- Keeping Data Centres up and running while meeting this increasing need for energy is now a critical issue for most of our customers
Key Business Issues
- Extend the Data Centres capabilities to meet business requirements
- Anticipate a strengthening of the regulatory and meet clients expectations to address CSR issues.
- Develop performance (delivery, quality of services) while reducing costs (energy consumption) and minimizing environmental impact (natural resources, CO2 emissions, WEEE)
Our Approach
Assess energy consumed by IT : how much, where and why? Identify quick wins.
Track 1: Energy & Cooling Scan
- Identify IT and non IT consumptions, assess the Data Centre PUE – Power Usage Effectiveness
- Analyse space display within the Data Centre, cooling systems and heat dissipation
- Analyse power equipments
Track 2: IT Infrastructure Scan
- Analyse Servers, Storage, Backup and Network: hardware consumption efficiency, CPU utilization ratio, data management, ..
- Analyse recovery plan
Track 3: Application Portfolio Scan
- Identify all hosted applications with key indicators like number of users, technologies, support, criticality
- Map each application to its IT footprint
Track 4: Desktops Scan
- Analyse energy consumption of user IT environment: desktops, PDAs, printers, user network, infrastructure servers, ..
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