How Green Is Green?

Forbes.com (Dec 11 2009) Monitoring , Carbon Footprint , Cloud Computing , Servers

1. IBM says the carbon footprint of a data center tells you how green it is. Look inside almost any data center these days and you'll find initiatives under way to consolidate servers, improve server utilization rates and cut overall power consumption. These are all green initiatives, but what exactly makes a data center green? Forbes posed that question to IBM ( IBM - news - people ) CIO Pat Toole. IBM claims to have two of the greenest data centers. So how do you prove it? You can't. "There are no industry standards on that," Toole says. "The best way to measure it is the carbon footprint of the data center. We have a dashboard that helps us manage the energy consumption of the data center." (Read Full Article)

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