Green IT
Dec 14, 2014
Green IT
Agenda
• What is Green IT?• Green IT adoption on the rise• Where to start• Can ITIL help?
What is Green IT?
• “the study and practice of designing, manufacturing, using, and disposing of computers, servers, and associated subsystems… efficiently and effectively with minimal or no IMPACT on the environment”
Why now?
“The energy use of the nation’s servers and data centers doubled from 2000 to 2006… under current efficiency trends, national energy consumption by servers and data centers could nearly double again by 2011. “
“By 2010, for every $1 spent on hardware, 70 cents will be spend on power and cooling. By 2012, for every $1 spend on hardware, $1 will be spend on power and cooling…”
IDC
EPA
Data center growth
Green IT – on the riseOne-quarter of IT leaders in the US are either “very” or “extremely” concerned about energy efficiency and environmental responsibility, yet only nine percent consider themselves to be “very” or “extremely” green.”
Info-Tech 2007 Green Index
20% consider Green IT to be of high interest in 2007, 40% consider Green IT to be of high interested in 2009
Gartner Data Center Conference polling 2007 - 2009
Contributing Factors
Corporate Initiatives
Government regulation
Power constraints
Start in the Datacenter
Virtualization
•Flexible
•Efficient
•Improved economies of scale
Additional Data Center approaches
• Consolidation• Blade servers• Efficient cooling• Cloud computing• Combine approaches
Greening your organization
• Computer sleep modes
• Screen saver or killer
• Telecommuting
ITIL green?
•Adaptable method
•Service Portfolio
•Incident
•Change
•Asset
IT Governance and CSR
Foundation for green initiatives in IT and the business
•IT Governance = subset of Corporate Governance
•Corporate Social Responsibility
Service Portfolio & SLA’s
• Service portfolio inputs – green• Service Level Agreements – incorporate CSR policy– Define with green objectives– Frame discussion with green initiatives
Incident
• Opportunity for carbon scoring–Outsourced?–Site visits?–Internal support?
Change Management
Environmental factors
Impact
Compliance
RFC scoring
Green components in ITIL
• Map CI to existing services
• Configuration management
• Asset management
• Capacity management
Green clouds in the forecast?
• ITIL a good start• Assumes ITIL maturity• Cloud can help
According to Gartner, by 2012, 20% of businesses will
own no IT assets
It’s not easy being green