The Enterprise Goes Green

Orlando Florida just hosted a conference on how to bring more environmental sensibilities to the Enterprise Computing environment. The conference was called the "Uptime Green Enterprise Computing Symposium" and sought to help address the growing issues with power consumption, efficiency, and other issues where IT concerns and Environmental issues overlap.

Ted Samson at Infoworld has a nice summary, with six "lessons learned" at the symposium. Among these were:

* Measure your power consumption.
* Check to make sure all the machines running have a purpose (!).
* Grab the low hanging fruit. e.g. Check cooling fans in computer rooms which often are mismanaged.
* Get higher execs involved. CEO, CFO, CTO can make it happen.
* Consider virtualization.
* Consider outsourcing.