How Green Is Your Data Centre
Every business will constantly be on the lookout for ways to cut costs without cutting the overall effectiveness of their business. Thankful theyve survived the recession businesses are looking for the best ways to cut costs. Unfortunately most businesses tend to start with the staff when they really need to make cut backs but there are other ways to save money.
Tucked away in a rarely visited room sits your data centre. If you have lots of data to manage you may have even decided to house it off site. You probably even have a whole host of IT and technology that’s designed to save your business money and improve productivity. Things like tracking your fixed assets may be great when it comes to lowering insurance premiums but that software still needs to sit somewhere. By looking at your data centre and turning it green you could see many benefits. Top of the list of benefits will be the reduction in bills youd see from an eco friendly data centre. Another advantage is it will offer operational efficiency which means it will be able run denser storage and free up virtual space. This will give you more room to run your fixed asset software or you could end up saving more physical space instead. Then there is the more obvious benefit a green data centre would have on the environment.
In a day and age where image is everything to businesses and being green is so fashionable running a green data centre could look very good for your business. Being green may not help run your asset management but there other advantages. Normally when a business starts to address their power consumption in their data centre theyll see a 55% decrease in energy consumption. The typical saving in actual floor space is usually around 85%. The typical way to do this is to manage the heat within a data centre. Artificially cooling the hot air exhausted by the servers is where data centres will use the most energy.
