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Low Emission IT - The Internet Meets The Oil Crisis.
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The role of the IT manager now includes energy management.
Companies must reduce the energy used by existing equipment.
Small changes to procedures can have a significant impact on energy use.
A large number of eco badging schemes have emerged in the last two years.
Do IT managers have to trade off performance against energy use?
Opportunities exist for vendors whose products have energy management features.
Until recently the energy used by IT equipment has only been of peripheral concern to computer manufacturers and PC users. However, the recent rise in oil and gas prices, combined with the explosion in the use of information technology in both the home and workplace, has focused attention on the energy required to process and store the megabytes of data we create and access each day.
This report highlights the challenges facing the IT industry as the focus shifts from the sheer processing power of IT equipment to the amount of energy consumed by data centres and networked equipment. One of these challenges is the steep learning curve IT managers have found themselves on as they get to grips with an array of initiatives and emission reduction schemes, as well as the new efficient technologies that vendors are bringing to the market.
The report also highlights niche players in the power management software and hardware market as some of the key beneficiaries of the drive to lower energy IT related energy consumption.
While manufacturers are keen to sell more equipment, and some are using the eco-badge to do this, there are a number of measures users can take to reduce the energy requirements of their IT systems without investing in new equipment. Currently this is an important consideration as the recent oil price spike has coincided with a credit crunch that in some cases makes it difficult to finance a complete upgrade of a corporate IT system.
Additionally, the report reviews a range of green computing initiatives such as Energy Star and the EU Eco-Label. Low emission computing solution providers NEC, Verdiem, Rackable Systems and Intel are also profiled in this report, which is supplied with a free copy of 101 Ways To Kick The Carbon Habit - an overview of the carbon emission reduction market, and a catalogue of 101 ways organisations can reduce their carbon footprint.
The research in this report will be of interest to:-
IT managers.
Data centre operators.
IT vendors.
PC and network technology manufacturers.
Government IT officers.
Eco labelling organisations.
Energy strategists and policymakers.
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