Transition to a green infrastructure

Between rapidly growing IT infrastructures and high power and cooling costs, today's technology executives have more than enough reasons to explore green, sustainable IT strategies.

An ever-increasing demand for IT innovation that advances strategic organisational goals only compounds these challenges. This is why CIOs are striving to drive costs out of IT infrastructures to help free capital resources for strategic investments.

Adopting a green IT strategy can help enterprises minimise power consumption, maximise resource utilisation, reduce management complexity, and decrease operational costs while dramatically improving overall enterprise efficiency.

To help organisations address the challenges of efficiency and sustainability, Dell has developed a 'compute more, consume less' approach with the potential to provide important guidance on IT policy changes. After evaluating their energy use, organisations can use a comprehensive assessment Dell calls Total Data Centre Efficiency (TDCE) - based on the key metrics of Data Centre Infrastructure Efficiency, IT Age Mix Efficiency, IT Utilisation Efficiency, and IT Efficiency - to assess their overall efficiency and productivity.

They can then take action by refreshing data centre hardware using 11th-generation Dell Poweredge servers with the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series; virtualising to increase utilisation; upgrading to avoid the cost of building new data centres; and updating facilities to help provide immediate and significant improvements in IT efficiency.

For more information visit www.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/power/en/successful_transition_green_it?c=us&cs=555&l=en&s=biz or www.intercomp.com.mt.