The goal of Green IT initiatives, enabled by technologies such as Virtualization and Cloud computing, is to do more with less: keep supporting the growing demands of businesses for IT services, while minimizing our carbon footprint.
The risk is that by trying to minimize that footprint too hard, we might under-provision and hit performance and capacity crises. We then incur costs for fixing problems and ‘panic’ buying of resolutions, all of which outweigh any benefits from ‘going Green’.
A sustainable approach to implementing Green initiatives comes from properly planning and managing the capacity of the resources we support. From an infrastructure perspective we provide the ability to do this with athene®.
Through its server focus, still the point in any processing change where 80%+ of the service occurs, allied with its open interface, allowing all other capacity data to be brought into one data warehouse, athene® provides a complete view of capacity.
Good practice from a Green perspective is readily identified and managed.
The trick is to understand that usage equates to efficiency, over- or under-usage equates to waste. For example, a server typically uses more than 80% of the power when idle as it does when 100% utilized. From a Green standpoint, running one server at 60% is thus much more environmentally friendly than two servers at 30% each.
athene® enables you to identify underutilized resources and do something about them while still providing the business with the quality of service it needs.
To find out more about capacity management and Green IT join our community and download our white papers or video.
Andrew Smith
Chief Sales & Marketing Officer
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