Green IT World Leo

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Green IT
Leo Victor Zalki

GREEN IT

The Bad News:ICT Accounts for
approximately..
2%
..of global Carbon di oxide emissions

Findings: Early Indicators of a Raising ‘Green Business' Trend

ICT'S Global Carbon Dioxide Emissions

IT operations are challenged by operational issues
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IT Energy Crisis
Data center watts/sq. ft.
Doesn’t include energy needed to remove heat… can increase overall power requirements by 80% to 120%

But This Industry
Cloud Has a Silver Lining
The Good News:
There are substantial inefficiencies in the
technology and use behaviors that can be
readily addressed…
...and IT can significantly contribute
to control and reduce the 98%of
Carbon di oxide emissions
caused by other activities
and industries.

Five building blocks provide the tools to operational savings and business growth.SUSTAINABILITY
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Double your IT capacity

In the same energy footprint

Reduce operational costs

40-50% energy savings
Positive environmental

Impact

1,300 less cars or 3.5M

less pounds of coal

Getting started with Green IT

Optimize IT Energy use

IT transformation - Energy savings
Provide energy efficient technology and products for the Commonwealth such as Energy Star qualified computers, printers and monitors.
Reduce the costs of power and cooling through the consolidation and virtualization of the IT server infrastructure.
Promote environmental improvement by increasing levels of efficiency that ultimately reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Audit compliance with “green” or “emissions” objectives, regulation and standards.
Work toward establishing an enterprise-wide awareness to staff the expected power management settings requirements and best practices for energy conservation – Ensure that everyone understands their personal responsibility to do so.

Virtualization
The process of running two or more logical computer systems on one set of hardware.

Server Virtualization
Virtualization one of the most effective tools for cost effective, greener computing.
Reduce the cost of power and cooling through the consolidation and virtualization of the IT server infrastructure.
$300 -$600 per year in energy savings for every server removed through virtualization based consolidation.
Virtualization helps a company/enterprise lower power and cooling consumption, by reducing the machines and servers it needs.

Power Issues
Live Poll: How Far Along Are You Today?
What stage of power management are you in:

Early stages; research only
Planning stages, but no implementation yet
Implementation in progress
Fully implemented & complete

Today’s Environment
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Lets deliver profit/watt, not just performance/watt
Scaling IT faster than cost with c-Class, IPM & Thermal Logic
50% more servers
25% lower airflow
50% more servers
26% drop in Temp
50% more servers
37% less power

System activity display with power management
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Data Center
A data center is a centralized repository, either physical or virtual, for the storage, management, and dissemination of data and information organized around a particular body of knowledge or pertaining to a particular business

Business pressures

Support growth
Integrate acquisitions
Support business innovation
Exploit technology
Reduce costs and risks

Data center constraints

Power and cooling
Facilities
Personnel
Relocations Legacy infrastructure

What’s driving data center transformation?
Customer priorities and expected outcomes

Top Data Center challenges

Reduce Power Distribution Losses
Reduce Cooling Load
Reduce IT Load
Holistic Look at Data Center Impact

Raise temperature in data center
“Get our ducts in a row” (step 1)
Bottom-to-top airflow (step 2)
Replace HVAC w/higher efficiency
Options for free cooling or reuse of heated air
Consolidate & virtualize servers
Storage Area Network
Remove decommissioned servers from rack and power
Right sized servers
Dynamic power load management
Dynamically migrate workloads from underused servers to enable them to be shut down
Use a low-power state or shut down servers when not in use
Purchase Green Servers (energy star, RoHS, EPEAT)
Architectural/software choices that promote efficiency

Data Center

ECS monitoring/management
Use of renewable offsets
More efficient UPS+generators
Need to improve efficiency
Rotary vs. cell
Better power monitoring

Server

More-efficient power supplies
Focus on fans/blowers
Electrical conversion at the server
Energy management software
DC air pressure at 5% above
DC thermal analysis & leak detection
Use blanking panels

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Benefits of Data center

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PC/Laptop power management
PCs, monitors account
for more than a third
of ICT power consumption
and CO2 emissions.
Sixty percent of PCs are
left on after hours.
So the fix is educate staff,
use a lower power state
such as stand by, for
PCs and monitors after hours.

Greening printers and printing
Average office worker
prints 1,000 pages/month,
40 lbs/month.
The paper itself consumes
10x the energy of printing
on it.
So the fix is print less
measure and analyze
document flows.
Consolidate the printers into
fewer, standard, low impact
that share the same consumables.

Greening the staff..

Recommendations- It Starts With Measuring

What does the future hold..?
Increased legislation, regulation and tax breaks — power consumption, hazardous substances and e-waste.
Energy management across the ICT infrastructure, creating a more dynamic sense-and-respond environment.
More-efficient and smarter cooling, UPS and power supplies in the data center and for client devices and so on.
Better power management at every level — processors, PCBs, systems, operating systems and applications.
Power consumption as a design criterion for software and energy profiling.

“The World Cannot Solve
Climate Change Problem Without IT ”
Encourage the IT sector to be involved in green tech and carbon data management.
Promote Renewable Energy: the Green Light to India’s growth…
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Thank You