Green IT Policy

Definition
Green IT is the study and practice of using computing resources efficiently, a green data center is the data center which maximizes energy efficiency and minimizes environmental impact.

All of us need to make a difference in bringing in reforms and rethinking ways of optimizing equipment rather than purchasing newer equipment. If scaling up is expected, it is important to consider energy-efficient computing products.

You can’t reduce it 

if you don’t measure it !

If a server consumes 300 watts of power, that’s 2.62 megawatt hours/server/year (300*24*365) then taking calculations forward converting electricity consumption into CO2 Emissions (Carbon dioxide "is the most prevalent greenhouse gas from the production of electricity.") It is equivalent to 1.755 tons of CO2, which is equivalent to CO2 emission resulting from driving a car for over 9500 kilometers!

Extra Loads comes from the AC’s!

Yes, all our data centers for sure needs air-conditioning systems, servers and pc’s at the datacenters getting warm in that closed place that we must cool it down in order to keep it running 24x7 smoothly. The AC systems is the second monster that makes your IT Room is not green, for normal AC used technics the old AC’s using the old Freon R12, R22 gas types, that use more energy to get you the desired temperature, new gas R410 is less reactive with the environment while having the same home cooling characteristics and it is using less energy consumption.

My Green Policy solution in a snap

1- Use Heat pumps instead of normal AC’s, specially with under floor cooling water pipes, such as Altherma from Daikin.
2- Use Virtualization Servers and Virtual Workstations that act as interfaces or supporting PC’s.
3- Use Desktop Virtualization with ultra-small, secure thin clients.
4- Install measurement devices for temperature and humidity continuous measurement.
5- Consult a periodic Energy Audit to be aware of your consumption, and know your devices health status.
6- Depend of LED lighting systems instead of any other lighting bulbs, even the ones called ‘economy energy saver light bulb’ or Compact Fluorescent.
7- Use the new type of server housing known as the “Cold Corridor ® “. The cold corridor cabinets and housing allows the cold flow from air conditioning and the warm air flows from the servers to be separated in the most effective way, that also reduce the downtime of equipment.
8- Move your old telephony PBX racks to IP based PBX telephony solution that will generate savings in power usage and call costs as well.
9- Set the office equipment automated power control, such as copiers, faxes in offices are not always used by staff because of inconvenience in waiting for equipment to return to an operational state.
10- Add motion activated sensors to light the places not used frequently inside the data centers.

Wishing that you start apply that green policy everywhere, 

frequently ask yourself how green IT I am?