How green is yout IT?
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During my previous working incarnations, much of my work diversified from what many classify as “normal IT”!
Now, I have never been one for being labelled or typecast, so my achievements in working with partners and showcasing great technology outside the normal have always been a passion. One case study found me working with Condusiv technologies, which you can read about here Condusiv_Licensed_Trade_Charity_Case_Study
Diskeeper and V-Locity are great products that deal with fragmentation on completely different edge-server technologies.
Now, some companies thought that the advent of cloud technologies would sound the death knell of onsite servers and, with it, increase organisations’ carbon-neutral credentials. The Microsoft sustainability calculator is one PowerBI tool to help calculate what this may look like.
Cloud Data Centres are growing, and although reducing I.T. onsite or what is deemed as “Scope1 – directly under the control of an organisation” is shifting the energy consumption into “Scope 3 – all other emissions”, which are not required to be reported upon, so in reality, is not a reduction, more shifting the responsibility.1
I have digressed! The technologies that Condusiv provides help deal with the root cause of the problem by optimising the workload of the servers or workstations, be they physical or virtual. In the practical case study, the measurable improvement in workload was over a quarter, so together with the sustainability calculator, you can provide real-world quantifiable analytics measured in total metric tons of carbon equivalent (MTCO2e).
Approaching this from another I.T. perspective, the wireless network or WiFi is an element of I.T. that everyone requires, but they know little or care less about how it happens. Our partners at Ekahau, whose tools are exceptionally good at analysing and troubleshooting WiFi, provide a training methodology essentially to help optimise your WiFi signals, so they, too, use less power by getting the WiFi setup right.
It is not as simple as I made it sound, but a bad WiFi setup can waste so much energy. Take, for instance, the environment; if the WiFi is not set up with its surroundings, it can react adversely. The signal is either blocked or unable to reach its destination, so it has to repeat the signal transmission until it can get there or repeat so many times until it fails. The same situation occurs with poor WiFi hardware set-up or incorrect equipment, like the wrong aerials.
These three perspectives are some of what a good CIOaaS strategy from Ascot London can bring to any organisation, big or small. Ascot London Consulting has built its knowledge around the care, focus and service provision of best practices and partners who can provide a better, greener, carbon-neutral future.
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