• Datacenter Transformation
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  • Green IT Solutions
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• Operational Readiness
• Managed Services
• Technology Procurement

Green IT Solutions

Design Challenges of the Modern Datacenter

Datacenters today face many physical challenges—from the tremendous power and cooling requirements of high density blade servers to outdated (read inefficient) infrastructure design layouts.

And though Green IT may have been a secondary priority for U.S. companies up until a few years ago, financial and environmental considerations combined with the advent of innovative technologies such as virtualization have pushed Green IT into the forefront of modern business strategy.

Virtualization Enables Green IT

Specifically datacenter virtualization, desktop virtualization, storage virtualization, and application virtualization, are enabling businesses to operate more effectively—and affordably—than ever before. Virtualization reduces server sprawl, minimizes your organizational carbon footprint, and lowers power and cooling costs, all without impacting applications or users.

Energy Star Ratings & the EPA

Though Green IT makes both business and environmental sense, defining meaningful metrics and models for technology is challenging. Toward that effort, the EPA introduced its first Energy Star rating for servers in 2009 and in early 2010, the EPA undertook several initiatives to help organizations identify ways in which energy efficiency can be measured, documented, and implemented in data centers:

• Guiding Principles for Energy Efficiency
• Energy Star Principles for Energy Efficiency
• Energy Star Rating for Datacenters

If you want to benchmark your organization’s datacenter efficiency or read more about the program tools and initiatives, visit:

www.energystar.gov