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Across the board the Green IT Awareness Survey reveals a story of businesses believing in the concept of greener IT but failing to translate that into action.
Instead, they are looking to suppliers and to the Government to carry the responsibility for bringing down carbon emissions.
Chris Hines, Director of Sustainability at The Eden Project, said: “IT has the potential to have huge benefits for sustainability, but if played wrong can accelerate its impact disastrously.
“All business can think smart about making IT work for them and the planet.”
Seventy-nine per cent of respondents do not link power costs to hardware spend or IT budgets, despite the fact that a small server will now cost more to power during its lifecycle than it costs to purchase initially.
Indeed, over 95 per cent of surveyed companies do not know how efficient their IT systems are because they have no measurement.
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Source: Scenta
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Automated control systems send vital data over IP-based networks, making facilities smarter and more energy efficient.
There’s a lot of focus today on the greening of the data center. But the energy conservation movement and the proliferation of IP-based data transport are also causing IT to pay more attention to building and facilities management, an area that has traditionally been outside its purview.
From sportswear retailer Eddie Bauer to the New York public school system, organizations throughout the U.S. are implementing automated building control systems that send vital data over IP-based networks and are manageable through Web portals. The common goal is to reduce energy costs and comply with green building standards. “Building systems are beginning to use the IT backbone as their medium to get information back and forth from the control systems” to the people who monitor them, says Terry Reynolds, vice president for business development at Control Technologies Inc., a systems integrator in Burlington, Vt., that helped implement the New York schools’ system.
In many cases, facilities and building managers work directly with integrators to design and implement these networks. But even then, IT is needed to make critical decisions, such as whether there’s enough bandwidth on corporate IP networks for the new data to flow in real time; how to carve out roles for IT, facilities and other departments for managing the new data transport; what security measures should be implemented, especially when the setup involves sending the data across the Internet; and how to set up the network addressing and naming schemes for the new devices.
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source: Computerworld.com
