Virtualisation and sustainability - 2010

Virtualisation offers efficient dynamic provisioning, high levels of availability, resilience and business continuity.

Pre-virtualisation an average server utilization figure was 10% – in other words 90% server redundancy adding no value

Virtualisation significantly helps to reduce energy consumption, an organisations carbon footprint, and  running costs

Virtualisation market is growing rapidly especially SMB. The current market penetration of the [...]

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IBM, SAP, sustainability, upselling and cross selling

IBM software sales people are incentivised on quarterly targets – reach them and get paid, fail and well, the pressure is on. The way an IBM sales person sells their software and reaches their targets is to concentrate on 'cluster' accounts that buy IBM mainframe time and processing power to run their business, when these [...]

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Funding energy efficiency projects

The CRC requirements may prove a damp squib regarding a compelling event for investment in ICT energy efficiency but  the deals available for funding of capital expenditure to small and medium sized businesses are compelling as well as tax incentives.
 
These government  schemes are worth looking at and building a business case for:

The Energy Efficiency Scheme [...]

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The Green Grid: Measures and Metrics

http://www.thegreengrid.org/academy.aspx. A free 'online learning solution' (surely there is a more efficient use of language than that!) on running an efficient data centre. 

The Green grid provides material for those interested in managing for efficiency. A number of organisations are active in this space – A sign that users want tools for measurement of data center metrics to justify efficiency investments.

The Green [...]

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