Monday, April 7, 2008

Coping with increasing energy costs

Organizations should prioritize energy efficiency when purchasing new IT systems and deploy consolidation and virtualization technologies enabling space optimized, smaller and energy saving IT footprint, hence contributing to their CSR objectives. Recycling, disposal techniques should also be improved and focused on to dispose of IT equipment in a secure and sustainable manner.
Energy efficiency and Green-IT design should be the focus area for companies, who can initiate programs and activities for the development and provision of technology, products and services that will reduce the power consumption of customer IT platforms. These could include energy-saving platforms, such as power-efficient server, storage, desktops by using more efficient batteries, optimum cooling & high-density packing, use of low power CPUs, chipsets, memory, disks etc.; Utilization of software that reduces power consumption by controlling the efficiency functions in IT devices, such as MAID technology, Virtualization, Consolidation and Management functions; Facilities Management & Services that effectively rationalize power consumption, HVAC and Power units in datacenters.
The general public is becoming more aware of energy efficiency, technologies and products contributing to energy savings. However, increasing such awareness through programs involving schools, communities, Government, Industry will help propagating energy saving through thought and action.
Today energy saving technology can be found everywhere – in electric lights, motors, AC’s, water heaters, windows, doors, refrigerators, washing machines, and computers. In addition better design, advances in material sciences, insulation technology, alternate fuel can also greatly reduced energy consumption.