Green Datacenter: The Eco-Friendly Data Centers
Technological innovations and evolutions paves way for business prospects, but the growth of technology also effects the global environment, the way it is implemented and the electricity it uses. Along with globalization came in the need for better, faster and secure access to the information and data stored in large data center. These data centers with upgraded technologies, large racks and huge systems are vast storehouses of information and provide end-to-end business continuity solutions for the organizations. However, they also consume large amount of power resulting in carbon emissions effecting the environment.
A green datacenter therefore is the new buzzword in this techno savvy world. With major portion of the operational expenses of the data centers moving in towards energy costs, it’s quite imperative that organizations need to look into building energy efficient datacenters. As a repository and management center for dissemination of corporate data, which uses the mechanical, electrical and computer systems, the green datacenter is designed for maximum energy efficiency and minimum environmental impact.
The data center transformation from older versions or the construction of new greener version its operation includes advanced technologies and strategies such as minimizing the footprints of the buildings, use of low-emission building materials, carpets and paints, sustainable landscaping, waste recycling, installation of catalytic converters on backup generators and use of alternative energy technologies. With the growing pressure from environmentalists and public, government to has laid regulations ecologically responsible technologies. However, though this is an expensive proposition, but green data center will offer employees with a healthier work environment besides saving on electricity in the long run.
The green IT initiatives taken for data center transformation will include the three main aspects: Technology, Facility and Management. Working around these three dimensions will help enterprise and IT organizations walk a green path by assessing, planning, and implementing initiatives around the data center environment and reducing the environmental impact.
Datacenter virtualization and power management and data center consolidation can impact the technology aspect. For managing power, switching off the servers with low priority applications during power emergencies, shutting down IT systems systematically during unplanned environmental conditions and moving computing loads to least expensive power geography helps a long way. Structural and non-structural changes in the datacenter hosting facility such as audit and Gap Analysis to rebuild Facility, use of energy efficient CPU models, energy efficiency metrics like PUE, workload management and software to meter power usage and trend data will help in creation of a green datacenter.
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