Gives you your IT infrastructure costs and ways to reduce these. Businesses that act now to reduce their carbon footprint and energy consumption can both reduce costs and improve long-term prospects..

greener IT equipment can help prevent escalating energy costs, carbon taxes and unfavourable publicity.

carbonizeIT recognises that green issues are growing in importance for its clients, and recommends a number of ways to help them conform with regulations, retain profitability while increasing sustainability, alleviate the effects of rising energy costs, gain competitive advantage by “greening” your businesses, and plan for a more environmentally sound and profitable future.

Tipping Point
The combination of rising fuel costs and increasing charges on CO2 output makes it economically vital for organisations to increase their efficiency and reduce their emissions. Equally, as public understanding of global warming increases, organisations that publicise their implementation of sustainable ways of working will turn good PR into improved sales and profitability. For organisations with a long-term outlook, in hard financial terms it is clearly advantageous that today’s activities do not endanger the continuation of tomorrow’s customers.

Doing less with more
As business volumes increase and as more business processes are computerised, the number of servers in the typical data centre is increasing. Meanwhile, UK commercial electricity costs are rising by between 23% and 39% annually, such that power costs are likely soon to outstrip the cost of hardware, leaving them second only to staffing costs. In the coming years, electricity will become a major component in the overall cost of doing business even for non-manufacturing industries, where IT is likely to be the largest single consumer of power in the organisation.

Virtualization and Consolidation
carbonizeIT advises in continual advances in power-performance for each new generation of servers and storage, enabling clients to run the same workload at reduced financial and environmental cost.

Remote Mobility and Virtualization technologies allow large numbers of stand-alone systems to be replaced with just a handful of larger machines.

Replacing 60 physical servers with virtualized servers running on a single mainframe could save more than 160,000 kWh each year, cutting 69 tonnes of CO2 emissions – as much as an area of mature forest the size of 17 football fields can remove from the atmosphere in the same period. Remote Mobility and Virtualization can also reduce the need to purchase new hardware – not only removing the acquisition and running costs, but also eliminating the emissions generated during manufacture, delivery and installation.

See your IT carbon footprint and energy costs with a carbonizeIT Audit Report!

"Reduce what you can, and offset the rest!"