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Virtual Desktop (VOD) Reduce energy costs and CO2 |
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There is growing pressure on businesses to limit their emissions and operate in a more environmentally sustainable way. Businesses that act now to reduce their carbon footprint and energy consumption can both reduce costs and improve long-term prospects.
Reduce CO2 emissions
greener technologies may help halt or even reverse the effects of global warming if we act now.
As climate change becomes more obvious, there is mounting pressure on businesses to reduce their emissions and operate in a more environmentally sustainable way. Virtual Desktop (VOD) believes that the implementation of greener business practices will not give rise to any loss of competitiveness and can be used to enhance profitability. Businesses that act now to reduce their carbon footprint and energy consumption can both cut costs and improve long-term prospects.
Reduce Energy costs
greener IT equipment can help avoid spiralling energy costs, carbon taxes and adverse publicity.
Virtual Desktop (VOD) recognises that green issues are growing in importance for its clients, and recommends a number of ways to help them conform with regulations, retain profitability while increasing sustainability, alleviate the effects of rising energy costs, gain competitive advantage by “greening” your businesses, and plan for a more environmentally sound and profitable future.
‘As the need to conserve energy and cut CO2 emissions increases, pressure is mounting on IT departments to improve efficiency. Companies that take a greener approach can significantly boost their public image, while reducing their electricity costs.’
Doing less with more
As business volumes increase and as more business processes are computerised, the number of servers in the typical datacentre is increasing. Meanwhile, UK commercial electricity costs are rising by between 23% and 39% annually, such that power costs are likely soon to outstrip the cost of hardware, leaving them second only to staffing costs. In the coming years, electricity will become a major component in the overall cost of doing business even for non-manufacturing industries, where IT is likely to be the largest single consumer of power in the organisation.
Thin Clients, virtualization and consolidation
carbonizeIT advises in continual advances in power-performance for each new generation of servers, thin clients and storage, enabling clients to run the same workload at lower financial and environmental cost.
Thin clients offer a flexible, cost-effective alternative to standard PCs operating at up to 1/38 (power over Ethernet) ratio in power consumption from a conventional PC, while virtualization technologies allow large numbers of stand-alone systems to be replaced with just a handful of larger machines. Replacing 60 physical servers with virtualized servers running on a single mainframe could save more than 160,000 kWh each year, cutting 69 tonnes of CO2 emissions – as much as an area of mature forest the size of 17 football fields can remove from the atmosphere in the same period.
Reduce costs, strengthen system security, and enhance business agility
Because server consolidation solutions built with Virtual Desktop (VOD) Server provide end-to-end visibility, IT can observe, monitor and measure access to all corporate computing resources. In addition, IT gets a solution that is secure by design. |
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