Green IT Discussion

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Green IT Discussion

• Stephen Hightower
• April 16, 2008

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Whats the Big Deal?

• Does Green IT matter?
• Where do you start?
• What are you doing?
• Whats your biggest impact project?

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Energy Costs

• Today, 50 cents are spent on energy for every
  dollar of hardware
• This is expected to increase by 54 over the next
  four years
• Energy savings infrastructure upgrades can
  provide 1540 percent savings
• Oil at 200 a barrel will drive you out of
  business

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Where does the energy go?
The data center energy challenge affects both the
physical data center and the IT infrastructure
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Problem

• IT directly contributes to Global CO2 emissions

Gartner Group September 2007
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Problem

• Energy demands of user system components

U.S. Department of Energy
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Problem

• The impacts are across the full life-cycle of IT
• Materials generation
• Manufacturing and Assembly
• Development
• Operations and Use
• Disposal and recycling

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Objective

• Reduction in related CO2 emissions
• Through utilization of energy efficient systems /
  components
• Application of technology from purchasing phase
  through usage phase and dispostion of IT
  equipment
• Identifying opportunities for improvements and
  changing behavior and habits
• Alignment with Corporate Go Green objectives and
  targets

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Scope

• Green IT extends across all phases of the IT Life
  Cycle
• By addressing all phases
• Selection of energy efficient systems and
  approaches
• Influence industry in development of energy
  efficient systems/components
• Understand and Improve energy efficiency of
  systems and facilities
• Optimize environment (servers, storage, power
  management, )
• Manage resulting eWaste

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Scope

• Extend into other related areas
• Technology enabling
• Telecommuting
• Teleconferencing
• Alignment with Government Initiatives and
  activities
• Standard Practices, Processes and Policies

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Concept of Execution
Reuse Recycle and disposal IT components Reduce
eWaste
5.
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What is the end state view of Green IT ?

• World Class Green IT Certified (EPA/LEEDS/etc.)
  Data Centers
• Can be leveraged
• To win new business
• To consolidate to the most energy efficient
  locations
• Each Data Center will have its own energy
  dashboard
• All Data Centers will have an energy efficiency
  rating or index (see samples)
• Energy costs are measurable and have targets
• Robust energy source portfolio (including
  alternative energy sources)
• Established and certified Data Center efficiency
  guidelines and recommendations
• Complete Data Center definition and capabilities
• Based on EPA/DoE industry leading efficiency
  standards (Green Grid Data Center Infrastructure
  (DCiE) energy efficiency index, etc.)
• Can be leveraged throughout the enterprise

Cooling UPS Servers
Storage Desktops Office Space
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What will success look like?

• We understand and manage energy costs
• Strategic Suppliers (energy providers, IT
  suppliers, etc.) fully endorse and partner with
  us to deliver Green IT solutions
• We understand optimize energy consumption
  across all sources
• Facility (Mechanical Electrical)
• IT Resources
• We will have a Green IT blueprint that we apply
• Leverage scalable Green Data Center capabilities
• Extends the life of Green DC resources by
  leveraging investments
• Generates cost avoidances
• Robust Energy Team
• LMC Energy Program, LM Properties, Facilities, IT
  and Procurement
• Unified approach to greening facilities, data
  centers, IT resources, across the enterprise
• Conformance to EPA/DoE policies, standards and
  guidelines

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Your Plan

• Tomorrow
• Define your policy
• Address your office environment
• Discard screen Savers
• Reduce your print (print consumes 10 times the
  energy of the printer)
• Use your energy mgt features and enforce with GPO
• Consolidate printers and eliminate personal
  printers
• Switch it off when not used
• Raised Floor areas
• Raise the temperature by 2 degrees
• Buy rear door heat exchangers
• Use 230 V power distribution
• Baseline usage and report on it