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, according to Albert Esser, PhD writing on the website of computer manufacturer Dell.
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 to minimise power consumption, maximise resource utilisation, reduce management complexity and decrease operational costs while dramatically improving overall enterprise efficiency. Quantifying data centre efficiency helps to establish return on investment (ROI) for IT projects and data centre infrastructure costs. In addition, measuring efficiency in terms of IT work performed - not just energy consumed - can be critical to building a true picture of the value of green IT.
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) 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.
The TDCE approach and these strategies can help cost-justify strategic IT investments that advance enterprise efficiency while helping to simplify management and reduce operational costs - thereby contributing to a healthy bottom line and a healthy environment, Dr Esser said.
Intercomp of Marsa is the authorised distributor for Dell in Malta.