Logicalis's green calculator measures IT carbon footprint
US technology integrator, Logicalis, has launched a green IT calculator – basically a website – that is aimed at helping companies determine the potential benefits of virtualisation and consolidation.
On the site, enterprise customers can input values such as the number of PCs, servers, blades, storage arrays, storage switches and network devices, and the calculator will yield numbers for annual energy use and cost, carbon emissions, and the equivalent in trees offsets and barrels of oil.
The calculations are applicable only to US sites only. On the other hand, it is quite interesting to see the potential cost savings and environmental in terms of percentages.
Based on the Logicalis Green IT Calculator, if a firm with 20 servers consolidated to 5 virtualized blades, their cost of energy would be reduced from $8,803 to $119 annually. This consolidation and virtualization would reduce carbon emissions by 98%, save $8,684 and approximately 158 trees.
“The good news is that what is good for an organization in terms of enhancing utilization of IT assets and lowering the total cost of a data center is also good for the environment,” said Eric Linxweiler, SVP Solution Services, Logicalis. “This calculator is a quick and easy way of quantifying the financial and environmental benefits.”
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Category: Data centres, Green ICT
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