GREEN IT

Green IT defined

Also called green computing it describes the study and the using of computer resources in an efficient way. Energy efficiency Proper recycling of equipment Manufacturing

The Start

Environmental Protection Agency

Energy Star launch in 1992

Sleep Mode adoption

Design and Manufacturing

Manufacturing computers and components with minimal effect on the environment.

designing energy-efficient and environmentally sound components, computers, servers, cooling equipment, and data centers

Efficiency

reducing the energy consumption of computers and other information systems .

Energy consumption

Emissions

Proper Recycling of Equipment Refurbishing and reusing old computers

as well as properly disposing and recycling unwanted computers and other equipment.

E-waste

What’s being done

Intel

Iron Mountain

Aflac

Intel pinpoints thousands of unproductive servers

iSHARP (Interactive System Health and Resource Productivity)

Reduced server pool by 35%

Iron Mountain finds limestone a natural fit for data center efficiency

Room 48

Energy costs significantly lowered

Aflac pushes for paperless practices, yields productivity gains

reduced printer count by 34%

default to two-sided printing

technology from Secureprint