Companies are learning lessons from best practices organizations that
have taken the green initiative to save energy and at the same time be
environmental conscious. There is a way to reduce the amount of energy
used and this doesn’t have to be bad news for companies.
How is this done?
They did this by changing the normal way of conducting their organization information systems.
First, they did small things. One of them is to change their networking equipment and other devices that provide the same functions but can be controlled in terms of power usage. This has been proven effective in saving operating costs for servers and other devices. Second, it was found out that majority of the energy consumed is not used by the actual devices. A big percentage of the energy is used for cooling devices. The companies were able to make some changes by cutting down the number of servers and devices used.
Other changes in the organization information systems were done such as consolidation. This initiative means that consolidation is made in the data centre. Deploying support mission-critical applications does this. In effect, consolidation would mean fewer servers, which means less power consumption and heat generation. However, other companies who are planning to have changes in their organization information systems must do a balancing act. Fewer servers don’t mean less operational efficiency. To be able to cut down on the servers and still maintain the usual workload, there is a need to deploy more application delivery controllers. Companies who are planning to initiate green computing in their organization information systems can learn from these pioneer companies.
