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What is Green IT?

By definition IT and the environment are diametrically opposed ideas. The manufacture of almost any product today has an impact on the environment in terms of CO2 emissions, and with electronic equipment, the manufacture and disposal of the products a danger to the planet. A study by Green IT, indicated that over 250 million computers would reach the end of their useful life by the end of 2007. A small percentage of which may be recycled, whilst the rest would be left to rot in land fill sites around the world, leaking their poison into the earth.
Virtualization is one of the major Green IT strategies in the growing arsenal of technologies that are designed to reduce a companies ongoing IT costs. Firstly virtualization reduces the floor space needed to house the physical machines in the data center. This in turn has an effect on the amount of cooling needed to keep closely stacked hardware from overheating. The impact is a drastic reduction in power consumption, cost, and a lower CO2 footprint. Secondly, virtual infrastructure requires the adherence to strict policies and chargeback models to prevent virtual server sprawl, a problem risen from the ease with which servers can be created, left idle, and leads again to a proliferation of large servers wastefully consuming energy.

Tips For Going Green With Technology
• Upgrade to Energy Saving Flat screen monitors
• Recycle Office Paper
• Go Paperless, switch to electronic filing, forms.
• Allow staff to elecommute.
• Replace paper memos with E- Memos
• Web Conferencing—save paper
• Use E-Newsletters
• Electronic billing and bill payment
• Paper Manual and documents to Manuals on CD
• Turn off your monitor, Screen savers are NOT energy savers
• Look for Energy Star label with new hardware purchases.
• Find out if there is an E-Cycling Center in your office area
• Go Green and save on costs attend Webinars and Web Conferences
• Host Web Meeting.
• Do your homework before purchasing new products. Sites such as EPEAT (www.epeat.net) make environ- mental product ratings available online;
Greenpeace (www.greenpeace.org) provides thorough reports on the environmental efforts of many manufacturers. If you’re brand loyal or have a
specific product in mind, these are great starting point
• Make sure your energy saving features on your PC, laptop/notebook is enabled.