Current Green IT Initiatives are IT cost-saving initiatives with a bit of green on the side

 

The environmental perspective has finally reached IT. With some exceptions Green IT can at this point be described as cost-saving initiatives with a bit of green on the side. But cost-saving initiatives and Green IT can, in fact, go hand in hand and make sense from an economic point of view. Reducing hardware purchases and power consumption are hard cost-savers, with the additional benefit of enhancing your company’s corporate responsibility image.

Open iT has solutions to help kick-start your Green cost-savings initiatives, while continuing to assist in internalizing a “Green perspective” over the long term as you harvest the benefits of efficiently managing precious IT resources. Green IT is no different from Green initiatives elsewhere. It’s about using scarce resources wisely; in this case the hardware, software, and electricity needed to power your IT.

To develop a systematic approach to Green IT, you need to know what you have and what you use. You need to know what you’ve purchased, how you are using it, and whether there is a potential for savings. Can we do more with less? Can IT resources be shared between sites? Can I get rid of software licenses that are not in use? Do I need another server, or do I have spare capacity on my existing servers?         Open iT software is all about answering such questions. Open iT SystemAnalyzer monitors trends in server utilization, and ensures that you use what you have before you purchase new servers. Open iT StorageAnalyzer does the same for disks. And, by the way, Open iT works both in physical and virtual environments. Open iT LicenseAnalyzer, Open iT ApplicationTracker and Open iT LicenseOptimizer do the same on the software side; helping you to use efficiently what you already have, before making any new purchases. Open iT allows you to stop paying maintenance fees for IT resources that you don’t use!    Open iT solutions are about reducing waste, reducing cost, and doing more with less IT!  We’re about bringing economic principles into the IT environment. By making users aware of how IT resources are used through ‘showback’, or making users accountable through chargeback, you can make sure your IT investments and business units produce and consume IT resources more efficiently.  Thinking of Green IT initiatives?  – Open iT can help!     

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