RichardsoNEyres has been delivering virtualisation and consolidation projects for over 20 years, helping to reduce business operating costs. These reductions in operational costs also compliment the business Corporate and Social Resonpsibility by reducing heat and power requirements in the data centre.
In Autumn 2007 RichardsoNEyres collaborated with industry analyst IDL, to profile organisations from within the UK’s top 100 retailers, to better understand how leading retail businesses are addressing the issue of IT’s rising energy consumption, and its impact on their IT and CSR strategies.
Corporate governance has led to closer boardroom scrutiny of IT. Poor IT systems equate to poor controls and that might just lead to prison. But senior executive interest in IT now extends to cost and environmental concerns. Again governance related. These two boardroom issues converge in the data centre; specifically in respect of power management. This article explores the issues.
With rising energy prices and governments the world over encouraging their countrys' businesses to become environmentally responsible (a European Union directive encourages a 20 per cent reduction in energy use by 2020), it makes sense for companies to assess their operations and develop an energy-efficient “green” action plan
Hewlett-Packard Corporation has introduced a line of blade server products with a radically
redesigned power and cooling system. According to HP advertising, the “HP Thermal Logic”
power and cooling system represents a new approach that significantly reduces the power
consumption and required airflow for data centres requiring fully-featured, high-density servers.
A data centre crisis is brewing as energy supply and cooling technology struggle to keep pace with businesses' insatiable demand for computing power.
The Stern Review into climate change could force major policy reviews for IT departments and the wider business.
Power hungry hardware and rising global fuel prices could lead to energy costs eating up more than a third of IT budgets within the next five years, according to Gartner.
The UK's first end user environmental IT board has commissioned a report on green IT issues.
In embedding corporate and social responsibility (CSR) across the organization, HP aims to take a leading position in the marketplace in terms of communicating both environmental considerations and energy efficiency.
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