ITSO example Lowers Data Center Carbon Footprint, saves $1 million
By Nick July 14, 2008
Large global IT Service Optimization (ITSO) software maker TeamQuest just came out with a release touting the benefits of their product and service for IT professionals. The company just published two white papers showing how ITSO and Teamquest software can be used to lower a data center’s carbon footprint while saving thousands, if not millions of dollars. With US data centers consuming 1.5% of US electricity in a given year, data centers and servers have plenty of room to get a bit more eco friendly and efficient.
TeamQuest tackles one of the most important topics in the IT industry: how to meet growing demands on your servers while avoiding energy waste and costs associated with purchasing too many unneeded servers which can make systems too complex and inefficient.
The paper titled “ITSO: As Part of a Green Initiative” gives two good examples of different data center configurations and their operation over the next six years. In the examples, the difference between the high performance non-ITSO data center and the average performing ITSO data center was $1 million and a whole bunch of carbon.
While many firms can’t simply settle on the lower to average performing data centers pushed by TeamQuest, they can surely work smarter to find an equilibrium between the two points to create a high performance system that is optimized and has a lower carbon footprint.
TeamQuest and ITSO offer a good example of how brute force in IT to just buy loads of servers isn’t necessary with smart software solutions, isn’t economical with energy prices, and isn’t socially responsible with global warming and greenhouse emissions in today’s world. With software solutions available, and big green IBM servers on the rise along with Dell’s outspoken green efforts, data centers’ 1.5% portion of US electricity consumption should be declining in the future.
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