For most organisations the datacenter is the biggest user of energy even as the corporate executives are looking to be good corporate citizens. So the datacenter or facilities manager needs to engage the top management proactively in administering energy and making purchasing decisions together.
To do this effectively, they need to define a baseline of energy utilization, and then target legacy systems and big energy users that use energy irresponsibly, and commence projects to replace them and then be able to quantify the energy and carbon savings so their CEO can say "we just saved the world X amount of carbon emmissions" or to get that carbon credit!
Technology refreshes for the first time in history are creating problems in datacentres as the various forms of high density technologies being deployed actually increase the power usage per sqm. While the datacentre will become more efficient it will also consume even more power - it's a dilemma.
Lots of new initiates and innovation is occurring in power and a cooling technologies and customer concern over "bleeding edge technology" is real.
A clear roadmap for energy efficiency change from Governments, Corporations and IT industry seems to be still being formulated and a ‘wait and see' attitude is still being adopted by most SME organisations and large enterprises know they have to take action proactively and have commenced some programs already.
Because datacentres now contribute so much to an organisation's overall power usage CIO's and IT managers have the opportunity to take a leadership role or be a follower and wait to be asked the question! "What is IT doing to assist the corporation's green initiatives?"
Power and cooling is becoming part of the IT strategy for the first time in history and IT departments are now looking for a power and cooling partner/standard which we can provide at APC.
Power and cooling is a new area of education for IT folk and IT is a new area of education for facilities folk.
Energy efficiency focus is now creating new methodologies, tools and policies and procedures to be adapted by IT departments. But most the industry is still in sitting back and listening to the industry noise before taking any proactive action.
APC is the first company to launch an energy efficiency solution center in Asia. We provide solution Centres in all our corporate offices across Australia and New Zealand show casing energy efficient solutions for today
We're combining a broad range of product mix and the people with domain knowledge to provide customers with the comprehensive products and services in datacenter power and cooling solutions.
This isn't a fad or green wash, this is about the real changes we're all going to have to make in order to prepare for the new age of an environmentally sustainable economy. We're ready and willing to help other's make the transition through on the ground technology as well as a web-based APC TradeOff Tools, which enables IT managers to calculate their current emissions, and forecast how different cost scenarios will effect their operations.
We know change is coming and the sooner we make the necessary adjustments the better. Do you know how it will affect your business? Now's the time to find out.