SNW: How green IT saves Citizens Bank $500000 a year

Computerworld (Oct 14 2009) Servers

1. If you think of "green IT" as nothing more than a vendor-generated buzzword, you might want to take a look at Citizens Bank. The financial institution reports $500,000 in annual savings from a project to optimize its power and cooling practices, and its IT executives believe they have just scratched the surface of potential savings. (Chill out: Five ways to cut back on data-center power consumption) "We did absolutely save a half a million dollars last year and there is far more to save," Lars Linden, senior vice president and director of data center services and operations at Citizens Bank, told an audience at the Storage Networking World conference in Phoenix Tuesday. (Read Full Article)

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