How are you prioritizing Green IT investments?

use power management: Doug,

We at Emerson Network Power couldn?t agree with you more that 1 ? the drivers for going ?green? in IT are universally approved/declined on economic principles, namely ROI and very short payback and 2 ? the data center is an easy target due to IT asset density and presumed ease of project management. Yet as you so clearly noted, and I believe several third-party studies validate, quite often 2/3s to 3/4s of the enterprise network attached IT power consumption comes outside the data center.

Your very simple suggestion of turning devices off or at the very least utilizing the resident power management feature would go a long way towards improving any companies bottom line. And given our current economic climate one would think that alone would be a sufficient incentive for action. If the resident power management function doesn?t get the IT folks excited then they could look to the likes of Verdium, 1E, and Cassatt for more sophisticated yet easily deployed tools.

By the way that is one slick CO2 calculator tool you developed!

Thank you driving home a point that we also feel is obvious ? if you aren?t using it turn it off!

Best regards.

Jack Pouchet
Emerson Network Power
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