Green Data Center – Minimize Carbon Footprint
A green data center is the management, storage and distribution of data in which the mechanical, electrical and computer systems are designed for energy efficiency and environmental impact.
Green Datacenter Services will help enterprise IT organizations reduce their companies’ environmental impact through assessing, planning, and implementing green initiatives around their Data Center environment. Making a green data center can greatly benefit your company. The data center business has shown a healthy growth over the years and electrical power usage has always been a large and increasing cost of operating these data centers. Green data centers help enterprise IT organization reduce their organization environmental impact by assessing, planning and implementing the right technology around their data centers.
Over the years the number of applications is becoming more sophisticated, data is growing exponentially and servers are becoming more powerful. The deployment of storage systems has also grown. Some of the challenges faced by organizations for creating efficient data centers are:
- Steady rise in electricity costs, is a big challenge because you continually have to add power.
- High-density servers are creating hot spots in data centers.
- Reduce the need for expensive infrastructure upgrades to deal with increased power and cooling demands.
Steps to a Green Data Center:
- Consolidate your Servers –In most data centers about 30% of servers are not in use and are redundant. These idle servers consume as much as 30% energy. If these are removed and the utilization levels are increased, there can be a substantial saving of energy and cost involved. Dynamically pool in resources and distribute workload for higher efficiency.
- Intelligent Power Management– Turning off unused servers during power emergencies can also cut data center energy requirements by about 20%. You can also move compute loads to least expensive power geography. Move from simple room-level air conditioning to targeted cooling systems that move heat exchangers up to the server rack. You can enclose your servers in aisles and concentrate your cooling directly onto the racks.
- Data Center Virtualization–Move your software and applications in the cloud, this can help you to shut down unwanted physical servers. The virtualization device will keep track of your server space and remap applications to different physical locations.
- High-efficiency Power Supplies – Assess and plan how your energy distribution is to be done. Monitor and reduce usage to unwanted areas and equipment.You can look for alternate power source, like solar power, wind energy etc.
- Buy Energy-efficient IT Equipment – IT equipment manufacturers won’t design for energy efficiency unless users demand it. Opt for energy star rated equipment, cooling systems and other appliances.
Green data centers help minimize the carbon footprints of the buildings with the use of low-emission building materials, maintainable landscaping, waste recycling and installing catalytic converters on backup generators. They also use alternative energy technologies such as photovoltaic’s, heat pumps, and evaporative cooling.
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