NEW tenders for information technology (IT) initiatives across Asia Pacific are increasingly incorporating “green” IT standards, said Citrix Systems product marketing manager (Application Networking Group, Pacific) Kunaciilan Nallappan.
He said the trend indicated that organisations were becoming cost conscious and looking towards green computing as a way to reduce their IT operational costs.
Wikipedia defines green IT or green computing as the study and practice of using computing resources efficiently.
While IT investments should be viewed as enablers to business growth, it can also be a huge cost structure if not managed well.
“What we mean by green IT is to reduce the carbon footprint of data centres,” Kunaciilan said, citing power and cooling as primary contributors to the high costs of running data centres.
By reducing the number of servers in a data centre, he said there could be exponential savings in terms of infrastructure costs.
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