GreenIT - Notes

GreenIT - Notes

Reduce costs by Reducing the organizations Environmental impact.

GREEN - NOT Just Energy consumption, although there is a vast area of interest in everything from Power Usage Efficiency to Carbon Dioxide Emissions. 

The GREEN review can begin by merely looking at the monthly Electric Bill. You can track actual dollars spent alone, or combined with other measures like Kilowatt Hours.  There is a considerable amount of detail in the electric consumption/efficiency topic alone.  The dollars paid for electricity is a minimum requirement to discovering the cost of running your organization.

IT GOAL: Improving availability and performance of critical business services

NEW Technologies will continue to change the competitive landscape

IT organization Cost structure

Capital Budget vs. Operational Budget mgmt

Licenses and Support costs

Facilties maintenance costs

Supporting Labor Salaries (those "required" to use the technology)

Additional Labor Salaries -Lease mgmt, procurement, admin, etc.

Opportunities for cost reduction through IT Participation

• Telecommuting

Foreign oil

global warming

reduced traffic jams

reduced traffic accidents

disaster prepardness

redistribute wealth

increased productivity

Increases collaboration

reduced attrition

reduce unscheduled absence

Expands the talent pool

• Virtualization

*- Identification of opportunity based on current capacities.

Reduce hardware volume and costs

Improve support by reducing number of target envs

Mine or yours? - Cloud Expansion (The Blob - The Growing Internet)

- What is it? WWW - new reality, continues as it was . . .

• Outsourcing

DON'T OVER-PROVISION RESOURCE REQUIREMENTS Identify Applications to port -discrete, temporary or simple may be best. =RISK PROFILE - Eliminate unused software/modules, reduce license costs Small underfunded data-centers may be happiest (better SLA)

• SAAS Software As A Service - Application outsourcing
• SOA Service Oriented Architecture - promotes reuse and productivity

Flying in the Clouds
Migrating Applications Managing Risk SLAs - The Pre-Nup Agreement Availability and Performance requirements.
-Penalty in terms of Service Cost VS. outage costs.