Best Practice in Green IT: Implementing Green IT in the enterprise and its cost benefits

Table of Contents

• What is Green IT?
• The business case for Green IT on the desktop
• Choosing a green desktop PC and monitor
• The business case for Green IT in the data center
• Choosing a green server

• Summary

• Introduction
• Lifetime asset management

• Market context
• Climate change & global energy demand
• Global energy demand
• The environmental impact of business & IT
• E-waste, disposal and recyclability
• Legislation

• Market drivers & resistors
• Drivers
  • Legislation and regulation
  • Corporate Social and Environmental Responsibility agenda
  • Cost savings
  • Limitations and expense in the data center
• Resistor
  • Perceived cost
  • Lack of education / apathy
  • Lack of knowledge / energy auditing

• Conclusions

• Summary
• Market context

• The business case for Green IT on the desktop
• Environmental manufacture and recyclability of desktop equipment
  • eWaste
  • Green PC vendors and recycling
• Energy-efficient PC design
  • Cost savings provided by energy-efficient processors
  • Estimated cost savings provided by energy-efficient PCs
• Estimated savings from PC power management
• Cost savings from efficient power supplies
• Potential cost savings from monitors

• Conclusions

• Summary
• Market context

• The procurement decision
• Efficiency and environmental ratings
  • Energy Star
  • Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT)
  • 80-Plus
• PC design
  • Form factor
  • Vendor selection

• Conclusions

• Summary
• Market context

• The business case for green IT in the data center
• Environmental manufacture and recyclability in the data center
  • eWaste
  • Green PC vendors and Take Back programs
• Energy-efficient server design
  • Estimating cost savings from energy efficient processors
  • Estimate of potential cost savings from energy-efficient servers
• Estimated cost savings from efficient power supplies

• Cost savings from server virtualization
• Conclusions

• Summary
• Introduction
• The procurement decision

• Choosing a green server
  • Multicore processors
• Efficiency and environmental ratings
  • Energy Star
  • Climate Savers Computing Initiative
  • EPEAT
  • 80-Plus
• Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC)
  • Multicore processors
  • Form factor

• Conclusions
• Index

• Figure 1.1: The Green IT lifecycle
• Figure 1.2: Forecast global energy demand by fuel (quadrillion Btu)
• Figure 2.3: Estimated annual cost savings from new energy-efficient processors compared to older generation processors
• Figure 3.4: Vendor selection: Energy efficiency vs. E-waste/recyclability
• Figure 4.5: Server global market forecast by server type, 2008-2012
• Figure 4.6: Growth in energy consumption of server types (billion kWh), 2000 and 2005
• Figure 4.7: Data center power distribution in typical system
• Figure 4.8: Data center power distribution in optimized system
• Figure 4.9: Estimated vendor server cost savings claims
• Figure 5.10: Server power consumption proportions

• Table 1.1: Reasons for adopting Green IT
• Table 1.2: Forecast global energy demand by fuel (quadrillion Btu)
• Table 1.3: Legislation governing the use of hazardous materials in the manufacture of IT equipment
• Table 2.4: Toxic materials commonly found in PCs
• Table 2.5: A selection of vendor attempts to reduce toxic materials in PCs, laptops and monitors
• Table 2.6: Consumer and Small Business PC ‘Take-Back' Programs
• Table 2.7: What to look for in a good ‘take-back' or recycling service
• Table 2.8: Comparison of manufacturers' estimated cost savings from operating energy-efficient PCs
• Table 2.9: Estimation of potential energy savings from power management
• Table 2.10: Estimated savings from using power management with monitors
• Table 3.11: Two main factors should be considered in the Green PC procurement decision
• Table 3.12: Power consumption specifications for Tier 1, Energy Star 4.0 PCs
• Table 3.13: Estimated power savings from Energy Star 4.0-certified PCs and monitors in a hypothetical office (200 employees)
• Table 3.14: A selection of EPEAT Gold-certified PCs, monitors and latops
• Table 4.15: Server global market forecast by server type, 2008-2012
• Table 4.16: Growth in energy consumption of server types (billion kWh), 2000 and 2005
• Table 4.17: Vendor compliance with environmental legislation for servers
• Table 4.18: Vendor Take-Back programs for servers
• Table 4.19: Leading server vendors energy efficiency branding
• Table 4.20: Energy-efficient server processing technologies
• Table 4.21: Comparison of maximum power of leading energy-efficient server processors
• Table 4.22: Estimated annual energy savings per server by using 80-Plus certified equipment (kWh)
• Table 4.23: Server consolidation and virtualization calculation, before and after virtualization
• Table 5.24: Server consolidation and virtualization calculation, total power consumption
• Table 5.25: High-efficiency targets for volume servers, CSCI
• Table 5.26: 80-Plus server specification levels