Bigger Isn’t Always Better
As companies become increasingly information-intensive, the infrastructure required to support them is growing out of control. This is not only strangling companies’ business agendas, but choking the environment as well.
IDC estimate that data center electricity costs in the US are already in the range of $3.3 billion annually, and the number of servers will jump 50% over the next four years – resulting in higher energy consumption and a requirement for yet more data centre space. The largest global financial services firms have carbon footprints in the region of 500,000 tonnes of CO2 per year , and a firm’s IT electricity consumption can be responsible for up to 65% of the total.
Size Zero IT
Data center optimization through better IT practices and configuration management will help big business to reduce dramatically its IT carbon footprint, energy consumption, and IT overheads.
Tideway’s flagship product, Foundation, provides a way to automate the process of understanding the end-to-end configuration of the IT estate, and how it supports business applications, such as trading systems. It automatically generates and continuously refreshes a view of the IT estate, including all hardware, software and business applications and the relationships between components.
This knowledge can now be used to plan the optimisation of the IT estate and to track progress over time. Ultimately, data center optimization can become a business-as-usual process that not only contributes to an on-going reduction in a company’s carbon emissions but also contributes to significant cost savings.
Cut Physical Servers, Cut Carbon, Cut Costs
Typical benefits our customers have been able to achieve include:
- Identify and remove up to 5% of decommissioned data center servers that are still running
- Consolidate up to 30% of physical data center estate onto virtual servers
- Identify and consolidate orphaned physical servers
- Find technology refresh targets to replace slow and power-hungry servers with more efficient options
If you’ve got a green initiative in IT – find out the quick wins you could achieve by mapping your data center. Contact us now!
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In the News
Green IT: A Journey of 1000 Steps
31 Jul 2008
The right IT management tools can help a company reduce its carbon footprint – and save considerable costs in the process. Before you can get to the big work in the data center – decommissioning the inefficient or useless servers, virtualizing the existing resources, relocating – organizations need to be able to approach these initiatives with accurate and thorough intelligence about their IT assets and the relationships between infrastructure, specific business services and energy consumption. Without this intelligence, it can be hard to know what to do to reduce emissions, much less how to do it without risking the interruption of business-critical, revenue-generating services.
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