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| Leveraging IT to Support Green Initiatives |
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Your green technology strategy should go beyond meeting Energy Star criteria.
Here are some thoughts on how to meet your growing information technology requirements while reducing energy consumption.
Resource Optimization
Goal - Optimize usage of hardware
- Leverage virtualization technology (spread application load across physical infrastructure)
- Compartmentalization for similar applications to be grouped and optimized
- Cloud computing to increase resource sharing
Benefit - Reduce hardware purchases with more efficient use of existing resources
Application Tuning
Goal - Reduce redundancies / optimize application design
- Eliminate "nice but unecessary" data elements
- Remove redundant and unused reports
- Turn off redundant backups
Benefit - Reduce transaction volumes and data storage requirements
Data Compression and Transaction Acceleration
Goal - Store data in the most efficient manner
- Implement data warehouse appliances to increase end-to-end load and retrieval
- Capitalize on the latest data compression techniques (e.g., column store)
- Leverage transaction acceleration through hardware and software optimizations
Benefit - Reduce transaction volumes and data storage requirements
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