Thursday 2 February 2012

Ensure the future is green with strong Capacity Management

The requirements for 'Green IT' are changing.

Where cost savings through reduced power usage were once enough to claim good green credentials, this is no longer the case.

Organizations face growing pressure to deliver more sustainable benefits that are readily visible to stakeholders outside IT and outside the business. Managing the capacity of your enterprise effectively to deliver sustainable and measurable 'Green' benefits is key to keeping all parties happy.

Most organizations regardless of scale are keen to embrace and deliver "Green" solutions.
These projects are usually driven by the need to reduce carbon omissions, achieve certain ISO standards or simply to save money by reducing operational expenditure. Whilst the technologies that underpin these initiatives are understood e.g. consolidation, virtualization, etc  it's capacity management that will allow you to meet the project objectives and still provide the customer with the services that they need.

How can capacity management be used to optimize environments to ensure any green projects will deliver cost effective solutions?
At a higher level, how will mature ITIL processes be essential in maintaining any green initiatives and moving them forward?

I’ll be considering these and other questions at my webinar on February 9 - looking at the changing face of Green IT, from cost savings through sustainability to maturity, how you can use capacity management to reduce your current carbon footprint and enable sustainable Green IT through effective capacity management processes.
 Register and come along............

Rob Ford
Consultant