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Green IT

The lifetime energy cost of a new server is about to overtake the cost of the hardware itself. Whether it's Equipment Recycling, Server Consolidation or Advanced Data Center Cooling Options, most companies are now engaging in some sort of green practices.

Green IT is not simply about being "environmentally friendly", it is about creating sustainable IT infrastructure and reducing IT costs through smarter investment and careful management. The business benefits of Green IT extend beyond good citizenship to saving real dollars. Use the Green IT Research listed below to help you achieve green goals, such as:

Reduce Data Center Cooling Requirements
Reduce IT-driven Energy Consumption
Select Environmentally Friendly Equipment with Lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
Discover Energy Efficiency Metrics for IT
Develop a Green IT Action Plan

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Overall Adoption Rates for Green Technologies

Adoption Rates for Green Technologies
Source: Info-Tech

Greening the Data Center for IT Cost Saving

Most estimates suggest energy costs consume approximately 20% of data center budgets. That’s why "Greening the Data Center" makes sense in the current economic climate. This bundle includes research to help you develop, implement and measure a Green IT plan. It includes:

Craft a Green IT Action Plan
Top 10 Energy-Saving Tips for a Greener Data Center
Greening the Data Center: Take an Asset Lifecycle Approach
Greening the Data Center: Reduce Cooling Requirements
Greening the Data Center: Improve Energy Efficiency
Eight Ways to Save on Electricity Bills
It Doesn't Take a Tree-Hugger to Be Green: 11 Green IT Initiatives
Greening the Server Room: IT Asset Lifecycle Management
Greening the Server Room: Reduce Cooling Requirements
Greening the Server Room: Improve Energy Efficiency
Budgeting for a Green Data Center
If You Measure It, They Will Green: Data Center Energy Efficiency Metrics
If You Measure It, They Will Green: Server Efficiency Benchmarks Grow Near
Understand the Benefits of Energy Efficiency Certificates

"Green" IT: A Path to Reducing IT Operations Expense

This collection of reports and tools from Info-Tech Research will help to put you on the path to becoming a "Green" IT organization while saving significant amounts of money for IT operations. It includes:

Craft a Green IT Action Plan
Info-Tech's Green Index: How Green Are You?
11 Green Initiatives Your Peers Are Cultivating
Top 10 Energy-Saving Tips for a Greener Data Center
Greening the Data Center: Improve Energy Efficiency
Greening the Data Center: Reduce Cooling Requirements
Greening the Data Center: Take an Asset Lifecycle Approach
If You Measure It, They Will Green: Data Center Energy Efficiency Metrics
PC Power Saving Plans Reduce Costs and Environmental Impact
PC Power Saving Plan Calculator
Exercise Environmentally Preferable Purchasing for a Healthier Planet and Pocketbook
Use EPEAT to Decrease Equipment Costs and Help the Environment
North America Underperforms in Green IT Attitudes & Action

Sustainable IT Provision: Meeting the Challenge of Corporate, Social, and Environmental Responsibility

Corporate, Social and Environmental Responsibility (CSER) is now an important competence for all organizations. IT management needs to incorporate areas such as energy usage, disposal of equipment at its end-of-life, and reduction of the carbon footprint into their overall strategy. Power consumption is a particular concern, because it is fast becoming a constraint within the data center; which can have a power efficiency level as low as 70%. This extensive report will help you develop a cohesive reponse to CSER pressures. It discusses:

The business drivers and issues providing a compelling reason to act now.
Why being environmentally-friendly is beneficial for both IT and the enterprise.
How to develop a sustainable IT strategy.
Why IT must take the lead in being more responsible.
The technologies and strategies that make a more efficient operation and save costs.
Why energy consumption is an important area of focus for the IT manager.
How using services can contribute to a sustainable approach.
The industry and vendor initiatives that can help shape IT thinking.
What other organizations are doing to comply with their responsibilities.

Environmental Technologies in Abundance at CES and Beyond

To that end, a slew of technology innovations related to energy conservation and reducing consumers' environmental impacts were showcased at this year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, a majority of which were aimed at reducing power consumption. This report details the movements and industry trends most likely to impact the enterprise over the next coming few years.

Trends in "Green" Computing

For data centers to truly optimize the "green", progress needs to occur in three areas: IT systems efficiency, facilities systems efficiency, and better planning and integration between these two domains. This report looks at each of these areas in more detail as it explores

Vendor Trends - Facilities
Vendor Trends - Systems
Vendor Trends - Environmental Management.

PC Power Saving Plan Calculator

This tool (which is included in "Green IT: A Path to Reducing IT Operations Expenses") measures the approximate payback period for advanced scheduling software, and gives IT an idea of how much energy and money can be saved by implementing a PC Power Saving Plan. It also illustrates the mass of C02 emissions averted, and the equivalent number of cars taken off the road by implementing a PC Power Saving Plan.