{"id":114,"date":"2007-09-20T15:27:59","date_gmt":"2007-09-20T15:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=114"},"modified":"2007-10-10T15:39:12","modified_gmt":"2007-10-10T15:39:12","slug":"green-it-operations-contribute-to-profits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/green-it-operations-contribute-to-profits\/","title":{"rendered":"Green IT operations, contribute to profits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are a range of ways enterprises of all sizes can bring down the energy use of their IT operations, and a new article points out the six best, from outsourcing IT operations to building green data centers.  In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cio.com\/article\/print\/137550\">Six Ways to a More Efficient Data Center<\/a>, CIO magazine offers six ways to lower the high cost of hardware, cooling and power needs of IT while improving environmental performance.\u00a0 The six points are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Decide whether you really need your own data center.<\/li>\n<li>Weigh the costs and benefits of green design.<\/li>\n<li>Improve flexibility by designing for closely coupled cooling.<\/li>\n<li>Think about the floor tiles: It&#8217;s the little stuff that matters.<\/li>\n<li>Move support equipment outside.<\/li>\n<li>Monitor for power management.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And GreenBiz offers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenercomputing.com\/news_third.cfm?NewsID=35918\">a handy summary here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a range of ways enterprises of all sizes can bring down the energy use of their IT operations, and a new article points out the six best, from outsourcing IT operations to building green data centers. In Six Ways to a More Efficient Data Center, CIO magazine offers six ways to lower the &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/green-it-operations-contribute-to-profits\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Green IT operations, contribute to profits<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ict"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-1Q","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}