Green Datacenter Environment Ensuring a Healthy Bottom Line
The global organizations in their pursuit of excellence and in their attempt to meet customer demands have invested large amounts of their exchequer to be technologically sound. This has led organizations to be equipped with high-end computer systems, servers and storage devices. Further, with technological innovation and business expansions came in the requirement of increased storage of digital data and easy retrieval of the same across wide networks, leading to the installation of data centers.
The data centers are equipped with a large number of applications running on its servers to meet the myriad needs of the organization. However, the vast storage and energy demands tend to push many enterprise data centers to with increased budgets and infrastructure upgrades. Further, these data centers are also challenged with issues related to cost and time management besides management of floor space, cooling and systems management. Understanding the need to manage these resources for a longer run, enterprise have turned towards a green datacenter.
Though technological innovations facilitate the enterprises with methods for energy and power consumption, these require further investments on the part of the enterprises. Leveraging on the existing infrastructure may not be feasible for energy savings. Leading IT giants have taken initiatives towards datacenter infrastructure management that would facilitate transformation of the existing ones to green datacenter. Creation of such zero-emission data centers will have ultrasound humidification and harmonically mitigated transformers with variable frequency drives.
These next generation green data center is strategized to provide hosting and migration capabilities as well as seamless delivery to global clientele. Further, by providing the clientele best-of-the-breed solutions and end-to-end infrastructure, these data center enterprise help the clientele work on their core competencies. The end-to-end infrastructure services offered in the green data center environment ensures information security of all business critical system, near-shore solutions, business continuity as well as cloud computing.
The green data center solutions facilitates data center transformation through a three-phase methodology,
· The Assessment Phase creates a baseline of energy usage and carbon footprint of the current environment with the help of an assessment framework. Gap analysis and Feasibility study helps in identification of transformational activities and assessing the cost structure.
· Planning and Design Phase includes developing roadmap for specific Green IT initiatives
· Implementation Phase sees the enterprises working on specific technologies such as datacenter consolidation, virtualization, cooling and IT infrastructure management.
The Green Datacenter framework helps enterprises to be cost-effective, sustainable to business operations and also ensures a healthy bottom line.