engaging the european code of conduct
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How/why Business & Decision engaged the European Code of conduct and created Greenethiquette, a mandate for a clear cloudTRANSCRIPT
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Engaging the European Code of Conduct for eco-
responsible Data Centers
Gerald Dulac (Fondateur, Eolas/Business & Decision ) &
Jean-Michel Franco (Directeur des solutions, Business & Decision)
European Code of conduct
For Data Centers
• Green IT@Business&Decision : a short history
• Engaging the COC : the why and the how ; lessons learned
• Engaging our eco-system into better efficiency. Our initiatives.
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Context : Roll out of a New « Green » Datacenter
• 2 data center including one Co-located
• Power efficiency (electricity, cooling…) as the breakthrough to face this growth
Growth of activity is pushing the current
infrastructures to their limits
• Critical Adaptive Eco Hosting
• Best practices repository (ITIL…)
A new facility has to be built, based on
the following principles
• Recycling of industry building: minimal ecological footprint to design the building
• Designed for holistical eco-efficiency : small usage of water (limitation of volumes , usage of water table), low energy consumption (free-cooling, green hardware,…)
• Commit to Green IT best practices and standards
Fully committed to sustainability
principles
• Green energy (hydraulic)
• Or energy with minimal carbon footprint (nuclear)
Based in a region (Grenoble) with
strong eco strength
• Water cooling for maximum ratio between heat consumed/wasted
• Optimal management of heat
• A unique tool to integrate the energy efficiency into the SLA’s (Scada)
• Hardware (servers, cooling, electricity) sourced with regards to energy efficiency
• Total transparency around energy consumption
A full set of innovative solutions
for green IT
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Our approach : low carbon footprint, high efficiency and SLA
Application layers, SaaS :
Multi Iaas application architecture
Infrastructure As A Service :
Volume servers with low energy consumption
Optimize IT throughput : virtualization, mutualized managed services,
Use the right resource at the right place : multi cloud network
Datacenter As A Service
Use resource only when needed : cooling, electric distribution, low voltage
Minimize resource energy consumption: free cooling
Datacenter : The connected energy box
Use energy with low carbon footprint
( hydraulic)
Produce green energy (solar)
Reuse energy (essaisgroupes, cooling)
Fair resilience principles(reliability , avaibility, recovery)
SCADA
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The need for a Code of Conduct : performance driven by best practices
and measures
1) You can’t manage what you can’t measure ! => driven by best practices,
measured through a performance metrics framework
2) Build & Run 24*7 => continuous improvement in quality of service needs well
defined systems of measure
3) Provide evidence of our commitment to eco-efficiency : engage data center team
and B&D management, raise awareness from our Customers
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European Code of Conduct: answer to the Request for Information.
Describe what is being done, measure performance
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• One preparation meetings with Bernard Lecanu
• 2 months elapsed to understand the code, define role & responsibilities, and
gather the underlying data
• One finalization meeting with Bernard Lecanu to finalize the answer to the
RFP.
• Meeting with Paolo Bertoldi and B. Lecanu and our CEO, Patrick Bensabat to
formalize the participation
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How to further drive adoption of eco-responsible best practices :
our GreenEthiquette initiative
• Encourage users to adopt an environmental friendly attitude towards
ICT utilization, even if it is outsourced :
– Raise awareness by understanding the stakes and what constitutes the
ecological impact of digital services
– Commit to fair consumption and avoid the “always on” mindset
(when it leads to over-emphasis on performance and availability)
– Influence eco-responsibility from hosted services suppliers
by requesting them to commit and report on their eco-efficiency
• A few basic rules
– A charter drafted by the provider of digital services that drives his own
commitment together with his hosted service provider
– An open, accessible-to-all, label, that mostly formalizes a code of conduct : no
minimum service level other than market standards (European code of Conduct,
ClimateSavers..) shall be requested to the parties engaged
– A unique charter on the market since it is meant for a new type of population,
but one that is based on standards: standards determine the measuring
elements and practices to be used. The charter defines transparency rules so
that they can be shared
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The five Greenethiquette commitments
Optimize Energy efficiency
Minimize IT resources utilization
Setup recycling policies
(servers and consumables)
Consider fair performance & resilience
principle for SLAs
Source eco-efficient harware(low carbon footprint, low power usage)
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Using greenethiquette to translate our eco-responsability
achievment into concrete customer value
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Key takeways (1/2)
Becoming a participant to the European Code of Conduct is easy and straightforward
• No costs
• Small resource needed to engage in the process
• Adapted to the current situation : no obligation to change the physical infrastructure and underlying resources
Impact is strong within the team
• Repository driven best practices
• A way to engage a team collectively towards eco-responsibility
Use approaches such as Greenthiquette to demonstrate the impact of eco-efficiency within the service scope that you deliver to your internal or external customers
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Key Takeways (2/2)
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