Efficient IT

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There's no such thing as green IT.

A report from Global Action Plan and the Environmental IT Leadership Team (EILT) tells us that ICT carbon emissions will surpass aviation's in 2008. It also reveals massive inefficiencies in how we use ICT. Unlike the aviation industry though, there are no protesters for this poster child...

...40% of servers are underutilised by around 50%...and 37% of companies are storing data indefinitely...yet 61% of datacentres only have capacity for two years of growth.

Logicalis believes that to be green is really about having an efficient IT strategy, and that unless a server can grow branches, emit oxygen and become a safe habitat for squirrels, it's hard to see how green IT can be. But on a daily basis the IT industry continues to trumpet the latest in green technology.

A cynical person would suggest that this bandwagon is laden with £ signs...

If green IT really does exist then maybe it's more about an approach or strategy rather than the product. For example, can a green server help support your organisations' CSR strategy if it's not maximised to the full?

If this is the case, isn't it time to face the truth about green IT?

The Inefficient Truth Report was launched at the House of Commons on 3rd December.

View video extracts of the event, including comments from end-user customers, IT industry representatives and Peter Ainsworth MP.

Join the debate and download a copy of the report 'An Inefficient Truth'

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Licet, 4 months ago

What do efficient and effective working mean?

Hugh Smith, 6 months ago

If IT Managers in cold weather climates work with their Server Vault designteam, the heat from the servers can be vented into the overall building heating system thus lowering heating costs for the whole enterprise. In 90% of the systems they vent the heat through compressors outside. It is a simple change and easily achieved. If a few companies already can accomplish this, why isn't there more research into ideas like this. Geothermal loops can be used to deliver 58º F (14º C.) into the server cabinets for a never ending supply of cooling. The reality is that Server manufacturers don't care to examine their effects. The big cooling companies like big systems so no one is charged with energy efficiency. Apple introduced servers that run much cooler than traditional servers. Where are the articles on that? Options are out there. I have seen them. But until IT considers something other than faster, faster, higher and higher density as being a problem then no solutions will occur. Some are already out there.