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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Virtualisation and Asset Management - Missed opportunites

A key requirement for energy efficiency, for virtualisation programs, for sharing requirements with cloud suppliers is the collection and processing of relevant data to focus a program of events concerned with asset management.

In terms of energy efficiency it is easy to see that one would have include energy management into an asset management program if [...]

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