June 27, 2011
Metrics and Priorities for Green IT and Organizational Sustainability
In this keynote panel discussion from Uptime Institute Symposium 2011, Rami Branitzky (SAP), Christina Page (Yahoo!), Dr Nicole Peill-Moelter (Akamai Technologies) and John Pflueger (Dell) join John Stanley (The 451 Group) to discuss how they assess the sustainability of their operations.
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Reader Comments
The data center as a factory! John (Dr. Pflueger), and The Green Grid, are onto something. One can certainly make a strong argument for a business based data center metric that equates functional output in terms of energy, water, carbon, and natural resource inputs. Then, as noted by Dr. Peill-Moelter, we can trend these metrics over time and hopefully see that our efficiency and productivity efforts are indeed leading to a reduction in resource intensity.
Excellent. We look forward to such a metric and recognize that even then we must focus our efficiency improvement activities across the entire cascade effect associated with IT and data center operations.
http://www.emerson.com/edc/page/Cascade-Effect.aspx
Jack Pouchet | June 27th, 2011