Sunday, April 26, 2009

New IT mantra – “Go Green”


Several IT companies have renewed their pledge to preserve environment and save energy. Green term is pacing up speedily in corporate sector and celebration of Earth day also adds up a sparkle to this occasion. Considered as a good business strategy, as per the energy and utility head of IBM, approx. 18% of companies are conducting greenness and approx. 30% are expected to do this in the coming future. As per study, green data center has cut down its operational cost by half. Virtualization technique increases the utilization of resources by approx. 30 to 40% and lowers the costs related with power, cooling and hardware approx. by 30 to 70%. Besides this, a virtual server also reduces the carbon dioxide levels substantially.

IBM company has promised $1 billion to the Big Green Innovation initiative catapulted in year 2007. This project mainly assists on water management, carbon management, producing intelligent energy through smart grids and computational modeling. Considering globally, the major objective of companies is to chop carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 54 million tonnes a year and cut energy costs by $5.5 billion by 2010. In pursuit of this, as per Sonia Srivastava director of corporate affairs Intel, information & communications technology (ICT) industry has guaranteed to cut back its carbon footprint by 40 lakh tonnes a year and save more than Rs 2,250 crore in energy costs.

In this cause, Cisco has also commenced a technology, which makes it possible to reduce carbon dissipations by organizing energy consumption of devices on the network while they are not in usage. Recently, India’s third largest company has signed an agreement with WWF to coordinate in different areas of sustainability such as application of IT solutions to ecology sustainability. Likely, HCL Technologies Infrastructure Services Division (HCLT ISD) has also established a Green Data centre solution on this Earth Day. On the other hand, some companies are aiming on energy conservation and e-waste. Employees are being applauded more to save energy costs by switching off air conditioners and lights, when not in usage. More enthusiasm has also been shown to make more usage of car pools. These are some of the tricks, adopted by several IT companies to create greener environment.


2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Very nice post by swati...wishing her all good luck ..n wish that she will come with some new post soon!

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