carbonizeIT will show you how to reduce your energy costs and lower your carbon footprint. There is growing pressure on businesses to limit their emissions and operate in a more environmentally sustainable way..

Greener technologies may help halt or even reverse the effects of global warming if we act now.

As climate change becomes more obvious, there is mounting pressure on businesses to reduce their emissions and operate in a more environmentally sustainable way. carbonizeIT believes that the implementation of greener business practices will not give rise to any loss of competitiveness and can be used to enhance profitability. Businesses that act now to reduce their carbon footprint and energy consumption can both cut costs and improve long-term prospects.

How big is your company’s IT carbon footprint? Is it growing or shrinking?

Cyber Warming
The growing significance of IT is making it a more noticeable component of each organisation’s carbon footprint. While it could certainly be argued that the high energy consumption of the typical data centre or server room would be dwarfed by the equivalent work in a paper-based system, the IT function is on the other hand under mounting scrutiny from senior management as energy costs rise.

The current trend to centralise IT assets – though again arguably a more efficient model – makes the cost of housing, powering and cooling the infrastructure all the more evident. There is a clear risk that IT is the next target of the climate change lobby, taking its place alongside motoring and aviation. Click here for more info.

Research suggests that servers accounted for more than 4% of the UK’s total commercial electricity consumption in 2005; this figure was projected to almost triple by 2010. It is estimated that only 1 half of the electricity consumed in a typical data centre or server room is actually used by the equipment, with 25% going to cooling, 12% to air movement, 10% to electricity transformation, and 3% to lighting. Today, for every £1 spent on new hardware, an additional 50 pence is spent on power and cooling – more than double the amount of five years ago.

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