| SBC and VDI Enabling Green IT Becoming a Business Decision Maker |
| Thursday, 03 July 2008 by Michel Roth | |
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Green IT is a hype that a lot of companies are interested in. Not just for saving the environment but also for saving energy and thus money. With the prices of energy rising and the promise of the prices to keep rising more and more companies are making the amount of money that doing SBC or VDI with Thin Clients saves them in energy cost into a business decision maker. I guarantee you that this will continue to happen more and more in the future. I might even go as far as to say that there will be laws on power consumption for data center or at the very least tax cuts for companies that do "Green IT" and save the environment. I recently read this article that is a perfect example of what is happening today. Some highlights: Enterprise Rent-A-Car expects a move from PCs to (HP) thin clients will cut energy consumption by 5 million kilowatt-hours, save about $500,000 annually, and reduce CO2 emissions by 6.5 million pounds per year. Thin clients use only 13.6 watt-hours and 2.4 watt-hours of electricity [ note from me: I think other vendors out there have Thin Clients that use even less] in active and passive states, respectively, compared with the 77.1 watt-hours and 1.8 watt-hours consumed by PCs. Six months ago, the company set up a committee specifically to evaluate the environmental and energy-usage ramifications of IT purchases and also used a Green Grid metric to measure IT power consumption. Enterprise found that in the data center, IT equipment only accounted for 40% of the energy used - the rest was consumed by air handlers, cooling systems and uninterruptible power supplies. By turning off unused equipment and better managing its cooling processes, the company increased that percentage to 44%. Enterprise isn’t the only company switching to thin clients. Verizon Wireless has deployed thin client solutions in 17 of its call centers. Power consumption test results performed by local power companies for two call centers in Irvine, Calif., and Chandler, Ariz., found energy savings ranged from 50 to 60 percent. The choice of thin clients over PCs on the business desktop has reduced CO2 emissions in Western Europe by 166,000 tonnes in 2007 - equivalent to the emissions of more than 540 return flights from London to New York, according to research carried out by the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany for IGEL Technology, a thin client vendor. Read the entire article here. |
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