Energy costs continue to take up a significant portion of IT budgets, and it seems that there is no end in sight. According to Gartner, “The underlying consumption of energy in large data centers to power and cool hardware infrastructure is likely to increase steadily during the next 10 years. This scenario is likely because of the increase in energy consumption of processors, servers, storage devices, and network-type appliances”. Many companies are already seeing their energy costs escalate.

Many IT organizations view Green IT as a major undertaking that involves replacing current equipment with new “green” equipment that has low energy consumption. Most of these organizations, however, do not have the capital budget to finance such broad and sweeping changes. Fortunately, there is a more practical way to achieve Green IT objectives. Rather than looking at greening IT as one formidable task, think of greening IT as an incremental and continuing process that you can tackle in bite-sized pieces.

This paper addresses, in a unified and systemic way, many of the issues - including Green IT - that IT has been grappling with in piecemeal fashion. Through this holistic approach, you can address the issues in context rather than in isolation. As a result, you' ll realize greater improvement in service and greater reduction in operations costs and capital expenses - and you'll achieve Green IT in the process.