Green IT means making the most of what we've got

infoworld.com (Mar 31 2010) Power and Cooling , Servers

1. Frequent readers of my Sustainable IT blog may have noticed a recurring them in my posts over the past three years: Much of green IT's success depends heavily on making the most out of your resources, whether you're talking about servers and PCs, CRAC units and power supplies, or watts of electricity and gallons of fuels. Cliché though they may be, adages such as "Waste not, want not" and "Do more with less" summarize the case for green IT pretty well. Consider, for example, the numerous data center operators who have grappled with limited floor space, a tight budget, and limited amount of available power. Rather than spending valuable time and piles of ducats on an expansion or a new facility, many of these organizations have embraced green tech -- virtualization, application mapping, power management, free cooling, and more -- to make better use of what they had. The end ... (Read Full Article)

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